Voting begins early in the second round of the Seimas elections

Voting begins on Monday in advance in municipal buildings, other additional places, it will be possible to vote from 7 pm in the morning until 8 pm Laura Matjošaitytė, head of the Central Election Commission (CEC), told BNS.

There are more early voting places in these Seimas elections, but in some municipalities it will not be possible to vote in the municipal building itself, as has been the case so far.

Of the three largest cities, only in Vilnius, early voting also takes place in the municipal building, at that time in Kaunas and Klaipėda voters are invited to vote elsewhere.

There are also special polling stations for isolated voters in the second round of early voting. It will be mandatory to go to these polling stations by car, voters who are in isolation due to contact or travel abroad will not be able to vote.

“We have an innovation in this tour: for people in isolation in Vilnius, Kaunas, Šiauliai and Raseiniai, there will be special places before the vote exclusively for them and people in isolation will be able to leave their place of self-isolation to come and vote,” he said. L. Matjošaitytė.

According to the order of the Minister of Health A. Veryga, people in self-isolation must remain within three hours to leave the house and go to the polls; during that time they are allowed to leave the place of self-isolation.

In Vilnius, this point will operate at the Litexpo Congress and Exhibition Center (Laisvės ave. 5), in Kaunas – Aleksotas Innovation Industrial Park (Europos ave. 27), in Šiauliai – in the gym hall (Vilniaus St. 297) , in Raseiniai – on the market (Algirdo str. 1).

According to the head of the CEC, it was decided not to organize separate points in Klaipėda and Panevėžys due to the small number of self-isolating voters.

He stressed that only those who had not been diagnosed with COVID-19 infection would be able to vote on these items.

In addition, people in self-isolation can vote at home if they request it, voters who are isolated at their residence address must do so before Tuesday night and those who are isolated at their place of residence must do so before Wednesday night. .

The second round of the parliamentary elections will take place on October 25. In the second round, the two candidates with the most votes in the first round compete. Already in the first round, the candidate is elected with more than half the votes.

In a multi-member constituency, 70 parliamentarians are elected to the Seimas, in single-member constituencies: 71.

In the first round, Ingrida Šimonytė, leader of the conservative list, was chosen for the Seimas, with 61.17 percent. voters in the Antakalnis constituency, and Beata Petkevič, candidate of the Polish Lithuanian Election Campaign – Union of Christian Families with 59 percent. voters in the electoral district of Šalčininkai and Česlavas Olševskis with 52.77 percent. In the Medininkai district.

The first round of the Seimas elections in the multi-member constituency was won by the opposition Lithuanian Christian Democratic Union-National Union with 24.8 percent. Lithuania’s ruling Peasants and Greens Union remained in second place with 17.5 percent. votes.

The Labor Party received 9.47 percent. Lithuanian Social Democratic Party: 9.26 percent, Freedom Party: 9.02 percent. votes, the Liberal Movement – 6.79 percent. votes.