Lithuania pre-election favourites Simonyte, Nauseda expect to top presidential vote, face each other in runoff

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Lithuanians voted in large numbers on Sunday in the contest to succeed outgoing President Dalia Grybauskaite.

Local residents fills their ballots at a polling station during the first round of voting in presidential elections in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Sunday May 12, 2019.Pre-election favourites Ingrida Simonyte and Gitanas Nauseda told Reuters on Sunday they expected to go through to the second round of Lithuania’s presidential election, while Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said it was unlikely he would make it to the runoff.

Skvernelis, 48, who said before the election he would resign as prime minister if he failed to reach the runoff, said it looked like he had received too few votes.Official results were expected early on Monday. The three main candidates all vowed to advocate for increased state spending on social issues, a sore point for many in Lithuania where nearly a third of the population could be at risk of poverty or social exclusion.Income inequality is among of the highest in the European Union, second only to Bulgaria.

Both Nauseda and Simonyte say tax income should be raised to fund more state spending, although Skvernelis has introduced a tax cut as a signature policy of his government.

 

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