Description
Added on the 23/03/2021 13:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Jerusalem, Mar 23 (EFE), (Camera: Joan Mas).- Israelis began voting in a fourth parliamentary elections in two years on Tuesday, weeks after a successful nationwide coronavirus vaccination campaign and a progressive economic reopening.Some 6.6 million citizens are eligible to vote at 13,685 voting centers until 10.00 pm (20.00 GMT) on election day, which the authorities have declared a holiday.A total of 37 political parties are running in the parliamentary election but only around 12 will be elected to enter the Knesset.FOOTAGE OF JERUSALEM AND POLLING STATIONS. SOUNDBITES OF MICHEL MIZRAHI, VOTER.
Groups of demonstrators build barricades and throw stones at security forces in riot gear in Senegal's capital after people were dispersed when they tried to march against the postponement of the presidential election. IMAGES COMPLETES 34HY2B9
Staff at a polling station in Istanbul count votes in the second round runoff of Turkey's presidential election. Polls on Sunday showed a close vote, with incumbent president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, favourite to extend his 20-year rule until 2028. Turkey's longest-serving leader defied critics by emerging from the election's first round on May 14 with a comfortable lead against secular challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu. COMPLETES EN_33GF8LY IMAGES
Cuba's National Assembly votes for the island's president for the next five years. Incumbent Miguel Diaz-Canel is set to clinch a second term via the parliamentary vote as the sole candidate in a country where political opposition is illegal. IMAGES
Finland's centre-right leader Petteri Orpo claimed victory in Sunday's general election, with the far-right Finns Party in second place ahead of Prime Minister Sanna Marin's Social Democrats in third. (COMPLETES VIDI33CJ7WK_EN) IMAGES
|
Support : Technical 
- Content 
- Editors 
