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Panamanian presidential candidate Jose Gabriel Carrizo, of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Democrático), votes in the country's presidential elections in the capital. The vote comes as Panama is grappling with deep-rooted corruption, a severe drought that has hobbled its economically critical Panama Canal, and a stream of US-bound migrants passing through its jungles. IMAGES
Residents of Rio de Janeiro queue to cast their vote in Brazil's presidential election at a polling station in Copacabana. Brazilians are called to the polls to decide on their new president, in a polarising election that sees the leftist candidate and ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the lead over the incumbent far-right president Jair Bolsonaro. IMAGES
Polish president Andrzej Duda casts his vote in the first round of the country's presidential election. Polls indicate that Duda, backed by the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party, will fall short of a majority and there will need to be a run-off on July 12. Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, a liberal from the Civic Platform (PO) opposition party who has promised to heal ties with Brussels, is predicted to be his rival in the second round. IMAGES
Mexico's President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum receives the certificate of her victory in the June 2 presidential election. The Mexican electoral court unanimously proclaimed Claudia Sheinbaum president-elect with 59.7 percent of the vote after resolving a series of challenges filed by the opposition. Sheinbaum will take office on October 1. IMAGES
A polling station in Petare, in the Metropolitan District of Caracas, starts to count the votes in Venezuela's presidential election, after millions turned out to cast their ballots in a fraught presidential election with socialist incumbent Nicolas Maduro facing the biggest challenge yet to his party's 25-year hold on power. IMAGES