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“Compared to the last Seimas elections in 2016, we had around 5.5 thousand people in the UK. voters, which are already more than double, not counting them all, “the ambassador told BNS on Sunday.
According to R.Norkus, as of Sunday at 6 pm in total, more than 11 thousand have already expressed their will in this country. Lithuanians, that’s almost 75 percent. all those registered here to vote in the parliamentary elections.
According to the Central Election Commission (CEC), a total of 14,732 voters registered to vote at the embassy in the UK.
“Currently, 525 citizens voted live, along with early voting. We have received about 10.5 thousand. Votes out of 13.8 thousand. Registered to vote by mail. Of course, the letters are still traveling and we will wait for them until today. 16, as planned, ”said the ambassador.
According to him, during the early voting, 122 people visited the embassy, more than 400 attended on Sunday.
According to the ambassador, the embassy is mainly attended by young people, all of whom can cast their vote almost immediately, and small lines formed only in the morning.
“People keep going, there are still two hours left and we can get a more percentage in those last hours than during the day (…) It is very gratifying that today many young people have come to physically vote. “Older people have probably decided to vote by mail, and that is logical and safe,” he said.
Last year, almost 22,000 people participated in the first round of the presidential elections. Lithuanians residing in the United Kingdom. Then there was a referendum on dual citizenship.
According to the CEC, in the elections to the Seimas in the world’s Lithuanian constituency on Sunday night, 56.4 percent voted. Lithuanian citizens registered to vote abroad.
A total of 43,411 voters registered to vote abroad.
Mainly in the embassies in the United Kingdom, Norway (3996), Germany (3478), Ireland (2659), Denmark (2131), the consulate in Chicago (1752), Belgium (1650) and the Netherlands (1633).
Lithuania’s ambassador to Norway, Jonas Paslauskas, told BNS that the vote at the embassy is proceeding smoothly, although the procedures themselves regarding security requirements during a coronavirus pandemic take a little longer.
“There are no problems, we were ready and we thought everything through. “The vote is clearly slower, we need to disinfect, clean those pens, we only allow one at a time, we take precautions, we cannot inject all of them as we used to,” the diplomat told BNS.
According to him, the majority of those who voted in Norway cast their votes in advance, some 200 Lithuanian citizens voted live at the embassy on Sunday.
“We will have around four thousand (voters – BNS),” J. Paslauskas told BNS.
In these Seimas elections, for the first time, a separate constituency for foreign Lithuanians was formed: Lithuanians of the world, taking into account the large number of voters who participated abroad during the previous elections.
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