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"You have given gifts to those who are the richest and you have crushed those who were the poorest," says French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, as she is quizzed by an activist from Emmanuel Macron's En Marche party in the Calvados region, on the financing of her social reform projects. IMAGES
Tens of thousands gather in Georgia for a ruling party campaign rally, ahead of elections to be held after the arrest of ex-president and opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili. Georgia's president from 2004-2013, Saakashvili was arrested and imprisoned on October 1 days after he secretly returned from exile in Ukraine, prompting tens of thousands to rally in Tbilisi, demanding his release. He has been on hunger strike for nearly four weeks to protest what he calls a politically motivated prosecution and doctors expressed concerns over the risk of irreversible damage to his health. IMAGES
German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends the final rally ahead of the September 26th elections for CDU candidate Armin Laschet. The election on Sunday will mark the end of Merkel's 16 years in power and the beginning of a rare period of unpredictability in Europe's top economy, with the race too close to call. IMAGES
Managua, May 2 (EFE) .- Five men and a woman were presented Sunday as the candidates for the Presidency of Nicaragua by the National Coalition, one of the opposition factions, ahead of the Nov. 7 elections.The presidential candidates are Dr. María Eugenia Alonzo, ex-guerrilla member Luis Fley, Afro-descendant activist George Henríquez Cayasso, peasant leader Medardo Mairena, academic and former secretary of the Ministry of Defense (2004-2007) Félix Maradiaga, and businessman and journalist Miguel Mora.(Camera: RENEE LUCÍA RAMOS)SHOT LIST: THE PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE NATIONAL COALITION OF NICARAGUA IN MANAGUA.
Marine Le Pen, president of France's right-wing party the National Rally, votes in the first round of local elections, in Hénin-Beaumont. IMAGES
Spain's centre-right Ciudadanos party holds a rally in Barcelona. Spain will hold a repeat general election on Sunday, its fourth in four years, in a further sign of chronic political instability since the parliament began fragmenting in December 2015. 39-year-old Albert Rivera's Ciudadanos party entered the national parliament in 2015, pledging to wipe out the traditional left-right divide. IMAGES
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