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“Lithuanians are encouraged to bring their pens to minimize the risk of contagion in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, which are seen as a vote of confidence in Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis’ handling of the coronavirus crisis,” the news agency reported British Reuters.
According to Reuters, many people in Lithuania are “outraged by income inequality, despite rapid economic growth since 2004, when Lithuania joined the European Union.”
French agency Agence France Presse (AFP) notes that elections in Lithuania are overshadowed by a record jump in coronavirus cases.
“There is a tense battle between the governing center-left coalition, which defends its deal with the pandemic, and the conservatives in the opposition. The electoral contestants promise to reduce the economic and educational gap between the rural and urban population,” says AFP.
The US agency Bloomberg described these parliamentary elections as the most unpredictable in many years.
“Despite the fact that the Lithuanian economy affected by coronavir should outperform all other members of the European Union except one, this year, polls suggest that Prime Minister S. Skvernelis may have to fight for the right to form a new government, “writes Bloomberg.
The agency also says that many Lithuanians are unhappy with the distribution of the benefits of European integration, and the second round of elections will be even more difficult to predict in two weeks.
The American Associated Press is putting a similar emphasis. “The recent increase in COVID-19 cases, the virus-related rise in unemployment and economic challenges are the main issues criticized by the current coalition government,” the AP wrote.
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