南非4日举行地方政府选举,截至当地时间17时,全国约1200万名选民完成投票,其中豪登省投票人数最多,约300万人。投票于上午7时开始、晚上9时结束,仍在排队的登记选民将被允许继续投票。全国共设23696个投票站,登记选民约2923万人,选举结果将影响未来地方政府组成和治理。
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此次选举将产生南非各地方市政委员会的代表,选举结果将影响未来地方政府的组成和治理。
南非4日举行地方政府选举。南非独立选举委员会当天下午表示,截至当地时间17时,全国已有约1200万名选民完成投票。
南非独立选举委员会首席选举官赛·马马博洛当天在约翰内斯堡选举结果运营中心举行的新闻发布会上介绍,截至17时,已有约1200万名选民完成投票,其中豪登省投票人数最多,约300万人。
此次选举投票于上午7时开始,晚上9时结束。马马博洛表示,投票截止时仍在排队等候的登记选民将被允许继续投票。待投票结束后,各投票站将开始计票,选举委员会将在完成计票、核验等程序后公布最终结果。
据南非独立选举委员会介绍,此次选举全国共设有23696个投票站,登记选民约2923万人。
此次选举将产生南非各地方市政委员会的代表,选举结果将影响未来地方政府的组成和治理。
Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister, met in Beijing on the 4th respectively with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Le Huaizhong and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn, who were attending the 11th Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Foreign Ministers' Meeting. The two sides exchanged views on deepening the construction of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future, the construction of an all-weather China-Cambodia community with a shared future in the new era, high-level exchanges and pragmatic cooperation.
Iran's Supreme Leader Mujtaba said that the results of the U.S. midterm elections will not change the U.S.'s hostility toward Iran. If the U.S. aggression repeats, Iran's response will be broader and the scale of the war will be larger. U.S. President Trump said that it is up to him to decide when the war in Iran will end, and that he does not regret starting the war in Iran and will decide whether to escalate actions based on the situation. Mediators such as Qatar and Egypt continue to mediate, but the two sides have obvious differences on key issues such as lifting oil sanctions, ending maritime blockades, and unfreezing funds. On the 4th local time, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed to have shot down a US military MQ-1 drone over Qeshm Island, while the United States claimed to have destroyed an Iranian surface-to-air missile launcher.

US and Chinese defence officials met in Washington for the first meeting of a Crisis Communications and Prevention Working Group, agreeing to advance practical communication measures and additional channels to reduce risks and manage crises between the two nations.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded US First Lady Melania Trump the Order of Princess Olga, First Class, for her role in brokering a partial ceasefire enabling civilian evacuation from a Russian-occupied town.

A Canadian official says the country's push to reduce economic dependence on the US will continue despite President Donald Trump's Republican Party's midterm election defeat. Prime Minister Mark Carney maintains trade with the US will not return to pre-Trump normal and Canada must urgently diversify its trading relationships. US Democratic leaders have criticized Trump's trade war with Canada and called for reversal of sweeping tariffs affecting businesses on both sides of the border.

The Democrats won control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives in the U.S. midterm elections and will control Congress for the remainder of President Trump's term. Trump acknowledged that the war with Iran and the rising cost of living contributed to the defeat of several Republican candidates. The BBC analyzes the impact of the election results on Iran, Gulf countries, China and Russia.