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The Croatian presidential election race, which ends on Sunday, has been hit by controversy after a far-right singer, a far-right politician and a woman who helped hijack an American passenger plane all backed the incumbent conservative, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, against her rival, Social Democratic former prime minister Zoran Milanovic.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has sent a text message to Germany's Social Democratic leader Martin Schulz urging him to join a grand coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives.

In an interview with local media, the SPD chief said that Greece's leftist prime minister had urged him not to let "this deciding phase in Europe go to pass."

Former minister of Regional Development and Public Administration and Social Democratic executive chairman Liviu Dragnea, who resigned on Friday after he got a one-year suspended prison sentence, rebuked the leaders of the National Liberal Party (PNL) leaders for their tardive request of his resignation and for their lectures on honour.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was confirmed on Saturday as candidate for re-election to a second term of the governing Workers Party.

The elections are to take place on October 5, with a possible run-off on October 26, according to reports of the BBC News.