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“The Lukiškė constituency was probably one of the most popular constituencies in the first round and its location is very convenient,” Laura Matjošaitytė, head of the Central Election Commission (CEC), told BNS.
According to her, early voting in the second round started without a hitch.
“At this time, we have no information that there is a problem. We believe that everything started without problems. Voters are invited to take the opportunity to vote early,” said the CEC president.
Lukiškės Square is one of five established early voting points in the capital, and several interconnected carriages are built here.
A point in the capital and several other cities in the country is also for isolated voters who can come to vote by car.
“The morning is bitter, but duty must be done”
Even before the opening of the district, one of the district employees installed in Lukiškės Square divided the two-meter space between the participants to vote in order to maintain a safe distance.
“I have some time before work, I came up with the idea to vote,” Lina Lukūnaitė-Lukošiūnė, a 36-year-old civil servant, told BNS.
36-year-old Arthur Petrosian also said early voting was more convenient, he didn’t stop because of harsh weather.
“It just came to our attention then. It is more convenient to vote in advance. The morning is busy, but you have to do your duty,” said the man who works for the publisher.
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According to Jolanta, a civil servant, voting early is a test, she said she was voting for a fair Lithuania.
“I chose to vote early as a test. I work next door, just arrived. It is not too cold, the weather is very good and the mood is very good, ”said the 52-year-old.
In other cities, activity is less
Laura Matjošaitytė, director of the CEC, says that voters in other cities have been slower since the seventh morning.
More than two hours after voting began, he also said that voters in self-isolation due to their stay abroad or contact with COVID-19 were actively taking advantage of the opportunity provided by the CEC and four municipalities to vote early at mobile points. without getting out of the car.
“Those places are in use, many voters in isolation have already visited Vilnius, as far as we know, and in Kaunas,” said the president of the CEC.
“In other cities, voters are gathering little by little, the morning is early, there are not so many people who want to vote, but when they are older, the interest will probably be higher,” said L. Matjošaitytė.
Early voting will be possible until eight in the evening.
The second round of the parliamentary elections will take place on October 25.
The two candidates with the most votes in the first position. Already in the first round, the candidate is elected with more than half the votes.
In the first round, three Seimas candidates have already been chosen.
This is Ingrida Šimonytė, the leader of the conservative list, which raised 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.
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