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Added on the 31/12/2014 18:28:03 - Copyright : AFP EN
President of the centre-right Social-Democratic Party Partido Social Democrata (PSD) since May 2022, Luis Montenegro holds his final rally ahead of the March 10 general election. The 51-year-old led its parliamentary group when it was in power from 2011 to 2015 and imposed severe austerity measures. Despite the far right's potential for depriving the PSD of a parliamentary majority, Luis Montenegro has insisted he will not accept entering into a coalition with Chega. IMAGES
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Plenum Hall in the Knesset -- only a day after undergoing surgery to have a pacemaker installed -- ahead of a final vote on a key clause of his government's controversial judicial overhaul package. IMAGES
Supporters of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' New Democracy party blare air horns at the party's main electoral kiosk in Athens as exit polls show the party to be on course to win Sunday's election. His New Democracy party is projected to have obtained 36 to 40 percent of the votes -- well ahead of leftist challenger Alexis Tsipras' Syriza party, which is expected to have secured 25 to 29 percent of the ballot - but could be forced to call a second round of votes as it failed to garner enough support to rule alone. IMAGES
Centrist caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid arrives to deliver an address to his supporters after the end of voting in the fifth national election in less than four years. IMAGES
After two years without a political party, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro joins the Liberal Party ahead of the upcoming presidential elections, that will take place next year. IMAGES
Norway's Labour Party leader Jonas Gahr Store arrives at the party's event in Oslo ahead of the announcement of vote results for the country's parliamentary elections. According to opinion polls, a clear majority is emerging to unseat Prime Minister Erna Solberg's centre-right government, which has ruled the Nordic country for the last eight years. IMAGES