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Added on the 10/12/2021 12:51:23 - Copyright : France 24 EN
The first voters in Marseille cast their ballots as polling stations open in mainland France for the presidential run-off vote between incumbent Emmanuel Macron and his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen. IMAGES
CNN reports that Pete Buttigieg is in the running to become President-elect Joe Biden's Secretary of Transportation. Buttigieg ran for President in 2020. Business Insider reports that he is widely expected to run for president again in the future. If nominated, Buttigieg would be the first openly gay Cabinet secretary to be approved by the US Senate. Several other candidates have been considered for the role, including Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
Polls have closed and the vote counting begins in polling stations in the Senegalese capital. Volunteers open up sealed ballot boxes and start counting the ballot papers from the first round of the country's presidential election. IMAGES
Senegalese voters cast their ballot at a polling station in Dakar to elect a new president in an unpredictable race following three years of turmoil and political crisis. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden mixes up the current President of France Emmanuel Macron with former French leader Francois Mitterrand who died in 1996. Speaking at a campaign rally in Las Vegas on Sunday, Biden recalled a discussion with other heads of state at the G7 summit held in Cornwall in June 2021, a few months after his inauguration: "I said, 'America is back'". 81 years old Biden then remembers how it elicited a reply from "Mitterrand from Germany" before correcting himself : " I mean, from France". Francois Mitterrand was President of France from 1981 to 1995, serving a record two seven-years terms. SOUNDBITE
France's President Emmanuel Macron and his Indian counterpart President Droupadi Murmu attend a reception at the Rashtrapati Bhavan presidential palace in New Delhi as India marks its 75th Republic Day and France eyes lucrative deals with the world's fifth-largest economy. IMAGES