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Polish opposition candidate Rafal Trzaskowski arrives at a rally in Raciborz on the last day of the campaign before the second round of the presidential election. The liberal contender could narrowly defeat Poland's right-wing incumbent president Andrzej Duda in a knife-edge election on Sunday, according to final polls. IMAGES
Supporters of presidential candidate and current Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski attend a rally in the city ahead of Sunday's vote. President Andrzej Duda, long considered the hands-down election favourite, appeared recently to be losing support as the economic hardship triggered by the coronavirus lockdown began to bite. IMAGES
Paul Kagame, Rwanda's de-facto leader since his Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) halted a 1994 genocide, holds a final rally in Kigali, ahead of a presidential election on Friday. IMAGES
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado holds a rally ahead of the July 28 presidential election. Machado, who overwhelmingly won the opposition primary, was declared ineligible by a Maduro-aligned court. However, she refuses to step down despite being barred from public office for 15 years based on charges widely dismissed as spurious. IMAGES
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
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).