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"As we announced the day before yesterday, we do not recognise these elections," says opposition candidate Hajo Andrianainarivelo at a press conference in the capital Antananarivo. The first round of Madagascar's presidential election appears to have resulted in a very low voter turnout. Tensions are running high between incumbent Andry Rajoelina, who has voiced confidence in being re-elected, and ten opposition candidates who have called for a boycott of the vote. SOUNDBITE
Hundreds gather outside the Russian embassy in Berlin to protest against Russia's invasion in Ukraine on the last day of a presidential election guaranteed to see Vladimir Putin win another six-year term. IMAGES
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado holds a rally ahead of the July 28 presidential election. Machado, who overwhelmingly won the opposition primary, was declared ineligible by a Maduro-aligned court. However, she refuses to step down despite being barred from public office for 15 years based on charges widely dismissed as spurious. IMAGES
Xochitl Galvez, an outspoken 60-year-old businesswoman and senator with Indigenous roots, officially registers as the presidential candidate for Mexico's opposition coalition. Galvez -- born to an Indigenous Otomi father and mixed-race mother -- will face Mexico City ex-mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, a member of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's ruling Morena party. IMAGES
Denis Mukwege, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Democratic Republic of Congo opposition presidential casts his ballot in the general elections, at a polling center in Kinshasa. IMAGES