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Images show staff at a polling station in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana emptying voting boxes and starting the count of the ballots cast by residents during snap parliamentary elections. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced the early vote as part of a "modernisation" drive introduced after protests against fuel prices erupted in January last year. Tokayev's critics say the drive is designed to consolidate power. IMAGES
Polling stations in Bishkek open for Kyrgyzstan’s parliamentary elections as tensions simmer after claims of a plot to unseat populist President Sadyr Japarov, who rose to power in post-vote unrest last year. In three decades of independence, the impoverished ex-Soviet Central Asian nation has become a byword for volatility, with three presidents unseated during street protests fuelled by a combination of corruption, crackdowns and anger over perceived election irregularities. IMAGES
Polling stations in Reikjavik open for Iceland's parliamentary elections. The country votes in an election that could see its unprecedented left-right coalition lose its majority, despite bringing four years of stability after a decade of crises. With the political landscape more splintered than ever, the process of forming a new coalition could be more complicated than in the past. IMAGES
Anastasiya SHAPOCHKINA, Lecturer in Geopolitics at Sciences Po Paris
Yerevan, Jun 20 (EFE/EPA).- Armenians headed to the polls on Sunday for early parliamentary election in which candidates Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and former President Robert Kocharyan are considered the favorites. The early parliamentary election caused by a political crisis in the country after defeat in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan. (Camera: NAREK ALEKSANYAN). SHOT LIST: VOTERS AT A POLLING STATION IN YEREVAN, ARMENIA.
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