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Brazil's Congress votes in favour of President Jair Bolsonaro's ambitious pension reform bill, 379 deputies voted in favour and 131 against. IMAGES
Speaker of parliament and presidential candidate Peter Pellegrini votes in the second round of Slovakia's presidential election in the capital Bratislava. Final pre-election polls put Pellegrini, a Ukraine-sceptic backed by the ruling populists, and pro-Western candidate Ivan Korcok neck-and-neck, with Pellegrini gaining 51% of the vote and Korcok 49%. IMAGES
Retired NATO general Petr Pavel votes in the Czech presidential election run-off in which he is expected to beat billionaire former prime minister Andrej Babis. The victor will replace Milos Zeman, an outspoken and divisive politician who nursed close ties with Moscow before making a U-turn when Russia invaded Ukraine last year. Former paratrooper Pavel topped final opinion polls with 58-59 percent support, compared with 41-42 percent for Babis. IMAGES
Far-right President Jair Bolsonaro casts his vote in the second round of Brazil's presidential election, as the incumbent faces leftist ex-leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. IMAGES
Brazilian former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva marches alongside supporters in Rio's Complexo do Alemão favela as part of his second round campaign against far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. IMAGES