According to the CEC, early voting is active – there are queues of those who want to express their will at the polling stations.
“Due to extremely high voter turnout, some polling stations have long queues even after 8 p.m. In such cases, the election commission registers the end of the queue and all voters standing in the queue until 20:00 are allowed to vote. For example, you may have to wait an hour or an hour and a half at Lukiškių Square in Vilnius”, said Lina Petronienė, chairperson of the CEC, in the report.
According to CEC data, during the two days of early voting, residents of Neringa municipality vote most actively. Their turnout exceeded 18 percent. Active voting is also taking place in Biršton, Ignalina and Varėna districts, where more than 7% of voters came to vote. voters.
At that time, the voters of Šalčininkai, Šiauliai, Vilnius, Kaunas and Kretinga districts remain the most passive. Their activity is less than 2.5 percent.
ELTA reminds that the three-day early voting in the presidential elections and the referendum on the preservation of citizenship began on Tuesday. The main election day is Sunday.
8 candidates are competing for the post of the head of the country – Gitanas Nausėda, who is seeking a second term, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė nominated by the conservatives, representative of the Freedom Party, former chairman of the Constitutional Court (CT) Dainius Žalimas, independent candidates Ignas Vėgėlė and Eduardas Vaitkus, founder of the “Nemunos aušra” party Remigijus Žemaitaitis , Giedrimas Jeglinskas of the Democratic Union “Vardan Lietuvos” and Chairman of the Labor Party Andrius Mazuronis.
In the referendum ballot, it will be proposed to abandon the sentence currently written in the Constitution: “except for the individual cases provided for by law, no one can be a citizen of the Republic of Lithuania and another state at the same time”. This provision does not allow the preservation of Lithuanian citizenship after acquiring the citizenship of another state.
According to the CEC data, a total of 2 million people have the right to elect the president of Lithuania and express their opinion in the referendum on the preservation of citizenship this year. 385 thousand 234 voters.
