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Images of Poland's nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, gathering in Warsaw as they are expected to loose the majority in the country's parliamentary elections. The opposition party Civic Coalition (liberal), along with the Third Way and Left parties are tipped to win 248 seats in the 460-seat lower house of parliament, according to an exit poll. IMAGES
Yerevan, Jun 20 (EFE).- Armenians appear to have heeded Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's appeal to give him a second chance after last year's disastrous war in Nagorno-Karabakh, giving his Civil Contract party a sweeping victory in Sunday's snap election."The people of Armenia have spoken and have made a clear decision," he told supporters in Yerevan.With the ballots counted from more than a third of the country's polling places, Civil Contract has 58.19 percent, compared with 18.71 percent for former President Robert Kocharyan's Armenia Alliance, according to the Central Electoral Commission. (Camera: NAREK ALEKSANYAN).SHOT LIST: MEMBERS OF A LOCAL ELECTION COMMISSION COUNT VOTES AT A POLLING STATION IN YEREVAN, ARMENIA.
Members of former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz's centre-right People's Party (OeVP) react at their headquarters to the first projections in the snap Austrian elections, which show OeVP taking 37 percent of the vote to win the elections. A scandal which engulfed his previous far-right allies, far-right Freedom Party (FPOe), seems like it will take its toll as they dropped from almost 26 percent at the last election to around 16 percent. IMAGES
Opposition leader and former EU chief Donald Tusk votes in Poland's parliamentary elections. "We are voting today again for our fundamental rights and for our fundamental values. This is why Poles feel about what is at stake," he says as he leaves the polling station. Opinion polls indicate the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party will get the most votes but may struggle to build a governing coalition, giving a chance to the opposition. IMAGES
Baghdad (Iraq), Oct 6 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Ahmed Jalil) Many young Iraqis, who represent almost two-thirds of the population of the Arab country, will not go to the polls on October 10 to elect a new Parliament due to the disaffection and hopelessness of a better future, as well as the violence, threats and even assassination attempts that they have suffered.FOOTAGE OF THE STREETS OF BAGHDAD AND OF THE RALLY OF AL-FATIH.