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Supporters of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' New Democracy party blare air horns at the party's main electoral kiosk in Athens as exit polls show the party to be on course to win Sunday's election. His New Democracy party is projected to have obtained 36 to 40 percent of the votes -- well ahead of leftist challenger Alexis Tsipras' Syriza party, which is expected to have secured 25 to 29 percent of the ballot - but could be forced to call a second round of votes as it failed to garner enough support to rule alone. IMAGES
Media arrive at Beijing's Great Hall of the People ahead of the closing ceremony of China's Communist Party Congress, where President Xi Jinping likely to seal an unprecedented third term in power. IMAGES
France's Les Republicains party hold a strategic committee meeting at the party headquarters in Paris, after a surprise agreement in the southern PACA region between the outgoing LR party member Renaud Muselier and Macron's La République en Marche party. IMAGES
Austria's far-right OeVP party stage final political rally ahead of Sunday's polls. The People's Party (OeVP) of former chancellor Sebastian Kurz is expected to come out on top -- but if its poll rating of around 33 percent is matched in the vote, it will not be able to form a government by itself. IMAGES
France's main employers' organisation, the MEDEF, is holding hearings with party and coalition leaders ahead of the snap parliamentary elections. The leader of the centrist Horizons party, Edouard Philippe, is the first to be heard. IMAGES