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Added on the 13/05/2019 10:25:19 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Lithuanians who can not make it to the polls this Sunday cast their vote early in the first round of the presidential election. Among them, one of the top contenders in the race, the independent economist Gitanas Nauseda. IMAGES of Gitanas Nauseda voting
Speaker of parliament and presidential candidate Peter Pellegrini votes in the second round of Slovakia's presidential election in the capital Bratislava. Final pre-election polls put Pellegrini, a Ukraine-sceptic backed by the ruling populists, and pro-Western candidate Ivan Korcok neck-and-neck, with Pellegrini gaining 51% of the vote and Korcok 49%. IMAGES
Voters cast their ballots at a polling station in Espoo as Finland elects its president. Some 4.3 million voters will have to choose between former conservative prime minister Alexander Stubb and ex-foreign minister Pekka Haavisto, a Green Party MP running as an independent. The changing geopolitical landscape in Europe will be the main concern for the new head of state, who will lead the country's foreign policy together with the government and act as supreme commander of Finland's armed forces. IMAGES
Liberians begin voting in the second round of a presidential election pitting former football star and current head of state George Weah against political veteran Joseph Boakai. IMAGES
Polls open in Argentina for the first round of the presidential elections, in which the ultra-liberal Javier Milei competes with the incumbent Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, from the center-left coalition, and the former Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, from the center-right. IMAGES
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda welcomes US President Joe Biden at the Presidential Palace on the first day of the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. IMAGES