Voters are invited to vote in advance from 7 a.m. in the morning until 8 p.m. evening in all 60 municipalities, regardless of where they have declared their place of residence.
The presidential candidate, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, as well as outgoing President Valdas Adamkus, are also planning to vote in advance on Thursday.
According to CEC data, during the first two days of early voting in the presidential election and the referendum on the preservation of citizenship, a total of more than 91 thousand people voted. voters. This is 3.82 percent of the total number of voters.
Residents of Neringa municipality expressed their will most actively, voters of Šalčininkai district expressed their will the most passively.
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.
Eight candidates are competing for the post of the country’s leader. Among them are 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, founder of the “Nemunos ausra” party Remigijus Žemaitaitis, “In the Name of the Democratic Union” Lietuvos” is nominated by Giedrimas Jeglinskas and Chairman of the Labor Party Andrius Mazuronis.
In the referendum ballot, it will also be proposed to abandon the sentence currently written in the Constitution: “except for 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.
