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As Laura Matjošaitytė, president of the CEC, told Delfi, the event is unprecedented.
“It is a really unexpected situation, absolutely extraordinary, an unprecedented event,” he said.
According to the president of the CCA, the Seimas Elections Law establishes who is considered the winner in such a case.
“If both candidates receive the same number of votes during re-election, the candidate who received the most votes during the first ballot will become a member of the Seimas. In this case, it would be Mr. Pupinis,” explained L. Matjošaitytė.
The interviewee stated that if both candidates had received the same number of votes in the first round, the winner would have been determined by lottery.
“In this place, a member of the Seimas becomes the one who received the most votes in the first round and, according to the data available to the commission, tomorrow the electoral commission of the constituency will meet to recalculate the votes,” said L. Matjošaitytė.
Gintautas Paluckas, leader of the Social Democratic Party, and Edmundas Pupinis, conservative candidate, obtained equal votes in the uninominal constituency of Utena.
After counting the results in the 32 constituencies, E. Pupinis and G. Paluckas received 7075 votes each, according to data from the Central Election Commission.
Rolanda Gudynienė, chairwoman of the Utena District Commission, confirmed to BNS that a vote recount is scheduled for Monday.
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