Until Thursday evening, voters will be able to vote in all 60 municipalities from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., regardless of where they have declared their place of residence.
The Minister of Economy and Innovation, Chair of the Freedom Party Aušrinė Armonaitė, Vilnius District Mayor Robertas Duchnevičius, Chairman of the Lithuanian Peasants and Greens Union (LVŽS) Ramūnas Karbauskis and other politicians intend to vote in advance on Tuesday.
The main day for the presidential election and the referendum on the preservation of citizenship is Sunday. As informed by the Central Election Commission (CEC), the doors of the election precincts will also open at 7 am on May 12 and wait for voters until 8 pm. On that day, it will be possible to vote in any polling station, a total of 1,895 places throughout Lithuania.
ELTA reminds that 8 candidates will compete 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 (KT) Dainius Žalimas, independent candidates Ignas Vėgėlė and Eduardas Vaitkus, of the party “Nemunas Aušra” ” founder Remigijus Žemaitaitis, Giedrimas Jeglinskas nominated by the Democratic Union “Vardan Lietuvos” and Andrius Mazuronis, chairman of the Labor Party.
During the first round of presidential elections in Lithuania, residents will also vote in a referendum on multiple citizenship. 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.
