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Right-wing lawyer Jose Raul Mulino accepts victory as Panama's president-elect with 34% of the vote, nine points above his immediate follower, announced the Electoral Tribunal after 90% of the polling stations had been counted. "I accept the results expressed, which represent the will of the majority of Panamanians within our democracy," he says. SOUNDBITE
Jose Raul Mulino is sworn in as President of Panama during a ceremony at the Atlapa Convention Center in the capital. Mulino has promised to stop the passage of migrants through the dangerous Darien Gap and to revive the Panamanian economy dependent on the interoceanic canal. IMAGES TO COMPLETE VIDI362A73T_EN
The runner-up presidential candidate of the Movimiento Otro Camino (Another Way Movement), Ricardo Lombana, recognizes Jose Raul Mulino as the winner of this year's presidential elections in Panama. "To all of our polling station representatives who are watching this, do not move or leave your polling stations," he says, "this isn't over yet." SOUNDBITE
Members of parliament begin voting to elect the president of the National Assembly, a crucial election for the lower house that should also influence the political recomposition within the executive over the coming weeks. IMAGES
Heads of state and guests arrive as South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa is set to be sworn in for a new five-year term as president at a ceremony in Pretoria, after his weakened African National Congress (ANC) struck a government coalition deal. IMAGES
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