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The leader of the main opposition coalition, Ousmane Sonko, votes at a polling station in Zinguinchor in southern Senegal. The Senegalese people will elect their MPs on Sunday, July 31, in a vote that the opposition wants to use to impose a cohabitation on President Macky Sall, who hopes to retain a large majority. IMAGES
Caracas, Sep 20 (EFE) .- (Camera: EFE) With regional and local elections just around the corner and the challenge of convincing citizens who want the change that the vote serves to defeat Chavismo, the Venezuelan opposition faces multiple fractures and, unable to display an image of unity in public, multiplies their disputes.FOOTAGE OF VENEZUELAN POLITICS AND STREETS OF CARACAS
Caracas, Aug 31 (EFE).- Venezuela's multi-faceted opposition, including the sector headed by Juan Guaido, announced Tuesday that it will field candidates in the local and regional elections scheduled for Nov. 21 after refusing to participate in the legislative vote last December contending that the election would be invalid due to "fraud.""We announce to the national and international community our participation in the regional and municipal (elections) on Nov. 21, 2021, under the name of the Democratic Unity Party (MUD)," Un Nuevo Tiempo opposition party activist Marianela Anzola said, reading from the statement issued by the grouping.Anzola was accompanied at the formal announcement by several opposition leaders, including Henry Ramos Allup, the head of the democratic socialist Democratic Action (AD) party, and Tomas Guanipa, with Primero Justicia (PJ), the organization to which two-time presidential candidate Henrique Capriles belongs. (Camera: JACKDWIN SÁEZ).SHOT LIST: HENRY RAMOS ALLUP, LEADER OF THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST DEMOCRATIC ACTION (AD) PARTY, SPEAKS DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE IN CARACAS, VENEZUELA. SOUND BITES: THE LEADER OF THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST DEMOCRATIC ACTION (AD) PARTY, HENRY RAMOS ALLUP (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATIONS:- The ordinary people want representation. They want to be present, they do not want us to leave the gap again so that the Government can continue to take over everything by storm and we are left absolutely without any representation.- For fear of laboratories, criticism and insults and offenses, we think very well before participating. We are about to take a step forward and we will participate in the upcoming November (elections).
Caracas, Aug 31 (EFE) .- (CAMERA: Ivan Cardenas) Former Venezuelan opposition MP Freddy Guevara, a politician very close to Juan Guaidó, opted this Tuesday to "move to a process of coexistence" between political forces that includes the ruling Socialist Party United of Venezuela (PSUV), founded by the late President Hugo Chávez.
Berhanu Nega, leader of Ethiopia's Ezema opposition party, votes in parliamentary and regional elections. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).