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Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa votes in the parliamentary elections with the socialist tipped to win the majority of votes but without the necessary number to govern alone. IMAGES
Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar casts his vote in Ljubljana as Slovenia heads to the polls for a snap election. The 54-year-old leader was a respected professor and regarded as an eminent authority on constitutional law before his entry into politics and surprise victory in 2014 elections. IMAGES
Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva casts his vote in the parliamentary elections in Cape Verde, Africa's model of democracy. His Movement for Democracy (MpD) is being closely contested by the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV). IMAGES
Spanish Third Deputy Prime Minister and Communist candidate Yolanda Diaz casts her vote for the general election. Far-left party Podemos - a coalition partner since 2020 - has been absorbed this year by Sumar, a new formation led by the highly popular labour minister. IMAGES
Greece's Prime Minister and President of the New Democracy Party Kyriakos Mitsotakis arrives at the Presidential Palace, where he will be welcomed by Greece's President Katerina Sakallaropoulou who has handed him the mandate to form a government. Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said he was seeking a new vote as soon as June 25 in order to obtain a ruling majority, a day after his party won national elections that failed to produce a single-party government. 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).