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Added on the 03/03/2019 11:27:29 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Voting gets underway in India's election, with people queueing to cast their ballots in Haridwar. The Indian city is one of the first places to vote in the world's largest election. Some 968 million people are eligible to vote over a six-week period. IMAGES
Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha casts his vote in the general election after a campaign that played out as a clash between a young generation yearning for change and the traditionalist, royalist establishment. IMAGES
Retired Czech army general and candidate in the 2023 presedential election, Petr Pavel, votes in the village of Cernoucek as the polling stations have just opened for the election's first round. Pavel, 61, served as the chief of the Czech general staff and chair of NATO's military committee and is a former paratrooper decorated as a hero of the Serbo-Croatian war. He is facing a billionaire and an academic in a likely two-round vote seen as too close to call. IMAGES
Images of vote count in Manila for the presidential election in the Philippines. With more than 90 percent of an initial count concluded, the son of late Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Junior has secured almost 30 million votes, more than double the tally of his nearest rival, liberal candidate Leni Robredo. IMAGES
In a Sofia polling station, the last voters put their ballots in the ballot box and election officials begin counting votes in Bulgaria's third general election this year, as the country fights its deadliest coronavirus wave. 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).