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Voters cast their ballots at a polling station in Espoo as Finland elects its president. Some 4.3 million voters will have to choose between former conservative prime minister Alexander Stubb and ex-foreign minister Pekka Haavisto, a Green Party MP running as an independent. The changing geopolitical landscape in Europe will be the main concern for the new head of state, who will lead the country's foreign policy together with the government and act as supreme commander of Finland's armed forces. IMAGES
Polling stations open in Côte d'Ivoire for presidential elections after a campaign marked by inter-community violence. Two of the four candidates are boycotting the vote OVER President Alassane Ouattara's contested attempt to secure a third term. Voting started shortly after 0800 local time (0800 GMT) in the working-class area of Abobo, in the main city of Abidjan. IMAGES
Polling stations across Costa Rica opened early Sunday for a presidential election that has split the country between Fabricio Alvarado, an ultra-conservative evangelical preacher who slams gay rights, and Carlos Alvarado (no relation), a former minister from the center-left ruling party. The result will decide who rules the small Central American nation of five million people for the next four years. IMAGES
Polls opened in Venezuela on Sunday for the election of a new, all-powerful "Constituent Assembly" that President Nicolas Maduro promised would end his country's political and economic crisis by rewriting the constitution. IMAGES
Members of parliament begin voting to elect the president of the National Assembly, a crucial election for the lower house that should also influence the political recomposition within the executive over the coming weeks. IMAGES
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