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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
Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga calls off demonstrations planned for Monday and said his party would sit down for dialogue with the government after two weeks of protests. "We stand down our demonstrations for Monday, that is tomorrow, April 3, 2023. But in doing so, we want to emphasise that the right to assemble, to demonstrate, petition, and speak are iron-clad as provided for in our constitution," the veteran opposition leader tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Vehicles were torched and protesters clashed with police in a night of violence outside the Sri Lankan president's home on Thursday as anger built against a dire economic crisis. IMAGES
Zambia's opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema was on Monday declared winner of a hotly contested presidential election after capturing more than 2.8 million votes. "I therefore declare the said Hakainde Hichilema to be president-elect of the Republic of Zambia," electoral commission chairman Justice Esau Chulu said in a televised address. SOUNDBITE
Idlib (Syria), May 26 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Yahya Nemah) Hundreds of people demonstrated on Wednesday in the opposition-controlled areas of northwestern Syria against the presidential elections organized by the Government of Damascus, also rejected by the authorities of the Kurdish region in the northeast of the country.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTESTS IN IDLIB, SYRIASOUNDBITES OF THE PROTESTANT WITH THE SYRIAN FLAG AS A CAPETranslation: "We are here to uncover the pantomime of elections that the regime has called, it has even brought people from outside Syria to participate in this theater and deceive the international community with the holding of the elections. The whole process is flawed and false 14 million Syrians are outside Syria, where are those elections? In northern Syria there are 4 million Syrians in refugee camps, all these people reject the regime of the Assad family, they reject this dictatorial regime, the regime that he uses chemical weapons. From here we send the message to the regime that 4 million people do not want Bachar as president. From here we send a message to the international community: Syria belongs to the people and not to the Assad family. "SOUNDBITES OF THE PROTESTANT WITH SUNGLASSES ON THE HEADTranslation: "We are here today to send a message to the whole world and to the regime in particular and we say that our only and last word is that there is nothing legal in these elections, in this little theater. We also tell you that minds are being laughed at Where are the elections, where is transparency, where is freedom of expression and the right to vote? People are being forced to vote in areas controlled by the regime and threatened with the use of force or prison if they do not agree We are here as strong as the mountains and we will not give up our principles which are freedom forever and down with Assad.SOUNDBITES OF THE PROTESTANT WITH A SYRIAN FLAG CAPTranslation: "We are here to say that we are against these elections, the place of Bashar al Assad is not power, he would have to be in a court being tried as a war criminal, a murderer of children, like the one who has made the people have to leave their lands and be taken prisoner. We would like to know on the basis of what is running again as a candidate, since we consider that he is not psychologically stable and is obsessed with blood and the dead. "
Tbilisi (Georgia), Apr 8 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Zurab Kurtsikidze).- A group of anti-government protesters demonstrated Thursday in Tbilisi in support of the opposition leader and head of the United National Movement Nikanor Melia, who was arrested on February 23.The political crisis in Georgia worsened after the arrest of Melia, accused of leading major disturbances in the country's capital two years ago. FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST OUTSIDE THE TBILISI COURT.
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