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Seimas Elections:
* As of 4 pm, 26.21 percent cast their vote. voters, the total turnout with early voters is 37.86 percent.
* After receiving dozens of complaints from people in isolation for not being able to vote at home, the Central Election Commission (CEC) promises to do everything possible to provide them with those opportunities. “The electoral commissions are determined to do everything possible to ensure that citizens who find themselves in self-isolation for one reason or another, whether admitted or not, have the opportunity to vote. Every effort is being made, ”promised Laura Matjošaitytė, President of the CEC.
* Measures to control the coronavirus have led to longer lines in some districts. All voters must wear masks, their flows are regulated, and many fill out the ballots with their own pens.
* President Gitanas Nausėda said he expected better communication and less interference from the new Seimas, and hoped that the elections would be a success for political forces “who will not need to interpret from scratch what a welfare state is.
* Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said the results of the vote will be an evaluation of his government’s work. Noting the rapid economic recovery, the prime minister stressed that the pandemic also “exposed the problems and the work” that the new government would have to do.
Coronavirus situation. On Saturday, a record number of new coronavirus cases was recorded in Lithuania: 205 new cases were identified. About 160 new cases were reported on Sunday. No new deaths from COVID-19 were identified over the weekend.
Events in Belarus:
* More than twenty journalists were detained in Minsk before the unauthorized “Pride march” of the Belarusian opposition, and armored military equipment, sound grenades and water cannons were used in the center of Minsk, and protesters were arrested.
* Alexander Lukashenko met with opposition figures detained in a KGB isolator on Saturday. According to media loyal to the regime, the conversation lasted four and a half hours. In the published fragment of the video, the words of A. Lukashenko were heard that “you will not write on Konstitucijos street”. The meeting was attended by former presidential candidate Viktaras Babaryka and his son Eduardas, member of the Coordination Council established by the opposition Lilija Vlasava and coordinator of the electoral team of V. Babaryka, Juras Vaskrasenskis. Political scientist Laurynas Jonavičius says that in this way A. Lukashenko is trying to divide the opposition and strengthen his positions on the amendment of the Constitution and negotiations with Russia.
* Sviatlana Cichanouskaja, a former presidential election candidate living in Lithuania, announced that she had spoken by phone with her husband Siarhei, who was imprisoned in Minsk, for the first time in four months. She called Lukashenko’s meeting with political prisoners a victory for the protesters, but also warned that the regime was trying to impose a constitutional reform agenda on the opposition.
* On Saturday a solidarity march with Belarusian women was held in Vilnius and several dozen other cities around the world.
Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to ceasefire in Russian-mediated talks starting at noon on Saturday, but the two sides soon accused each other of violating the ceasefire. The Armenians said the bombings shook Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, and Azerbaijan reported that seven people were killed in the Armenia shooting in Azerbaijan’s second-largest city, Genghis. The clashes over Nagorno-Karabakh began on September 27, killing hundreds of people.
D. The Trump campaign. US President Donald Trump addressed his supporters from the balcony of the White House on Saturday. His speech lasted less than 20 minutes. The 74-year-old president says he has already recovered from the coronavirus and is feeling fine, and his doctor has said that Trump can no longer infect other people. Rival in the presidential election, Democrat Joe Biden, called Mr. Trump’s speech irresponsible to the crowd of supporters.
Concern for the weather. Pope Francis and Prince William of the United Kingdom joined the action of activists, artists, celebrities and politicians at the TED event to mobilize people to fight climate change.
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