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Tbilisi, Oct 2 (EFE / EPA).- Georgia's ruling party, Georgian Dream, won in municipal elections Saturday although it has not been officially announced if the party would achieve 43 percent of the votes demanded by the opposition to avoid the call for early legislative elections in 2022.During the elections, voters elected more than two thousand members of local self-government bodies (sakrebulo) and mayors of 64 cities, including Tbilisi, Kutaisi, Poti, Batumi. (Camera: ZURAB KURTSIKIDZE).SHOT LIST: SUPPORTERS OF THE GEORGIAN DREAM PARTY CELEBRATE VICTORY IN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN TBILISI, GEORGIA.
Clashes erupted among protesters and police when a dozen activists attempted to burn a US flag in front of the venue hosting the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Wednesday. Protesters built a human circle, holding each other's arms while one activist set the American flag on fire in the middle of it. Several police officers made their way through the crowd and extinguished the fire.
President of the centre-right Social-Democratic Party Partido Social Democrata (PSD) since May 2022, Luis Montenegro holds his final rally ahead of the March 10 general election. The 51-year-old led its parliamentary group when it was in power from 2011 to 2015 and imposed severe austerity measures. Despite the far right's potential for depriving the PSD of a parliamentary majority, Luis Montenegro has insisted he will not accept entering into a coalition with Chega. IMAGES
The populist leader of the far-right Chega party, André Ventura, holds his last electoral rally in Lisbon before elections on March 10. As campaigning wraps up, polls are pointing to an edge for the centre-right after eight years of Socialist rule, and huge gains for the far-right. The Chega party is tipped to more than double the support it won in a 2022 election, putting its leader Ventura in line to become kingmaker in a new parliament. IMAGES
Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) holds its closing rally for presidential candidate and current Vice-President Lai Ching-te, on the eve of an election that China has warned could take the island of 23 million people closer to war. Tens of thousands of people have flocked to noisy rallies of the main candidates as they make a last push for votes. 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).
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