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Without publicly announcing when and where she will vote during the first round of the elections, President Dalia Grybauskaitė already wanted to see journalists at the polls during the second round.
In the second round, the President met in her constituency between the conservative representative Justas Džiugelis and the member of the Polish electoral campaign Rita Tamašunienė.
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Although she arrived with protection and was accompanied by a platoon of journalists, a member of the electoral commission still asked her to show a face without a mask to ensure that it was the president who was in front of her and not someone else.
After a long time, he threw a ballot envelope at the polls, but the former head of state did not reveal why he had voted.
“Well, it’s the same as in the first round, but I didn’t really vote for those who for four years only dedicated themselves to the sick search for enemies and prohibitions, certainly not those”, says D. Grybauskaitė.
D. Grybauskaitė did not dare to evaluate the results of the first round, but spoke about the temptations of the parties: “Well, what was the political life, the quality of the politicians, let’s say, the political parties, so were the elections “.
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says Grybauskaitė’s criticism of conservatives.
“I was surprised that the president did not vote for the Conservatives. That’s what amazes me. Of course. Not they (conservatives – past aut.) searched for four years among the ruling enemies, applied all kinds of personal things, ”says Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis.
D. Grybauskaitė herself says that she does not plan to return to politics.
“Oh, God forbid. Oh, God forbid. I already answered from the beginning that I will definitely not take an active part in politics, and in public life in Lithuania, yes, ”says D. Grybauskaitė.
But he urges people to actively participate in the elections. Statistics show that at least the activity on Monday is much higher than during the first round.
More than 27,000 voters expressed their will on Monday. That’s twice as much as the first day of the first round of early voting. Here’s what voters are saying:
“Oh, today is more comfortable for me, there are fewer people here. It is more convenient for me.”
“Because I don’t live where I’m registered, that’s why I’m voting here.”
“I’m going to visit my loved ones over the weekend, I won’t be able to.”
“It’s more fun to be home in some way on Sunday. He’s here on the way to work, that’s where I stopped. “
“I got tired of voting and I don’t understand why. Very difficult. Notas I come, it is me. I’m afraid it will be like Valinskas. “
Ramūnas Karbauskis still wants more activism and people are constantly urging people to vote; According to him, the right has already reached the ceiling of its voters and more activity is beneficial to the left. But the sociologist says that this is not necessarily true.
According to some estimates, the “Union of the Fatherland” has not 30 percent, there is such a ceiling, in the first round they received less than 30 percent, it is still possible to mobilize here, look ”, said sociologist Vladas Gaidys.
It is emphasized that greater turnout in early voting does not mean greater turnout overall. For example, in the first round, more than four years ago it was voted in advance, but the overall turnout was lower.
“A little smaller, but considering that there have never been these pandemics, there have been no viruses and that almost the same amount has arrived, 50 and 47 percent, that is, I would say, quite good activity,” says V. Gaidys .
There were no rapes on Monday, but curiosity was inevitable. The behavior of some voters was surprising.
“We receive inquiries from voters, one of the main questions is why is only one ballot received, we have received questions about voting abroad, why is there only one ballot in the second round, why does it look like this?” says Laura Matjošaitytė, president of the Central Election Commission.
During the first round, 3 members of the Seimas were elected in single-member districts. However, some voters in those districts do not know.
We welcome those voters who come to vote, but are informed that they have already elected their Seimas member in the first round of the elections. It’s just that the voters receive that information, apologize and travel for their other purposes, ”says L. Matjošaitytė.
When the mobile points where people in self-isolation vote began operating on Monday, about a hundred voters arrived in Vilnius. In Kaunas, Šiauliai and Raseiniai, only a few dozen.
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