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(FILES) This photo taken on June 16, 2013 shows Ecuadurian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino (R) looking on as Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (L) waves from the window of the Ecuadorian embassy in central London. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on July 25, 2013 officially launched his political party to contest Australian elections this year, saying a victory for his candidates would be akin to planting the country’s “best investigative journalists” in the Senate. Assange, the Australian founder of the whistleblowing website, said the WikiLeaks Party would field seven candidates for upper house Senate seats in the states of New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia. AFP PHOTO / FILES / ANDREW COWIE