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Catalonia's lawmakers arrive in parliament to vote on whether to appoint hardline independence supporter Quim Torra as regional president, after deposed leader Carles Puigdemont stepped aside from the running. IMAGES
The president of France's far-right Rassemblement National party and declared presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, votes in Hénin-Beaumont in the north of France, for the first round of regional and departmental elections. IMAGES
Madrid residents vote during the last hour of voting in regional elections, which was also open to people either quarantining or who have tested positive for Covid-19. The election is expected to deliver a comfortable victory to the city's hardline leader of the right-wing Popular Party (PP), Isabel Diaz Ayuso, who has soared in prominence for stubbornly resisting virus restrictions. IMAGES
Madrid, May 4 (EFE) .- (Camera: Lucía Fonseca) .- The 1,084 polling stations of the Community of Madrid have opened their doors at nine in the morning to receive the voters who participate in the regional elections, with a Time slot for the elderly and another for people with coronavirus or suspected of having it.A total of 5,112,658 people are called to vote, of which 4,783,528 reside in the Community of Madrid and are those who could do so in person in the region, although 259,411 have requested to vote by mail, a figure that represents an increase of 41% compared to the 2019 regional and municipal elections. FOOTAGE OF ANGEL GABILONDO, PSOE, AND PRESIDENT OF THE COMMUNITY OF MADRID, ISABEL AYUSO, VOTING.
Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, who fled Spain over a failed 2017 independence bid, draws vast crowds of supporters to a rally in southern France near the Catalan border. It is the first time the former Catalan president has ventured so close to the Spanish frontier since he fled to Brussels to escape prosecution following the failed secession bid that sparked Spain's worst political crisis in decades. IMAGES