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BEIJING (Reuters) – French people in Shanghai will not be able to vote in the first round of the presidential election on Sunday due to the confinement imposed in the Chinese city in the face of a resurgence of the COVID-19 epidemic, announced on Friday. French Embassy in Beijing. Repeated approaches to Chinese authorities to obtain permission to open a polling station at the French consulate and for voters and polling station workers to be allowed to leave their homes failed, the embassy said. “Unfortunately, the Shanghai authorities replied on April 7 that ‘given the serious and complicated situation in...
