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Hundreds of people attend the Budapest Pride march ahead of the country's referendum on a controversial anti-LGBTQ legislation. Hungary's right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that a national vote will be held to gauge domestic support for the law, which includes a ban on the "depiction or promotion" of homosexuality and gender reassignment to under-18s. IMAGES
Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa casts his vote in a referendum on proposed tougher measures to fight gang-related crime in Olon, Santa Elena Province. IMAGES
Senegals' anti-establishment candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye votes in the presidential election at the Ecole Ndiandiaye polling station in Ndiaganiao. IMAGES
Dozens of protesters holding signs critical of the Kremlin demonstrate outside the Russian embassy in Paris, heeding opposition calls to demonstrate against President Vladimir Putin on the last day of the country's presidential vote. Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who lives in exile in France after protesting the offensive in Ukraine on Russian state TV, is in attendance, telling AFP they want to "to show all the world we are against Putin." IMAGES
By the light of a flashlight, electoral agents begin counting ballots as polls closed in Chad's referendum on a new constitution, a vote seen as a key step toward elections and the return of civilian rule promised, which has been postponed, by the ruling military junta. IMAGES
Chad's transitional president, General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, casts his vote as polls open in a referendum on a new constitution, with the vote seen as a key step towards elections and the return of civilian rule promised, but postponed, by the ruling military junta. IMAGES