The current president of Lithuania, Nauseda Gypsies (60 years old), a conservative centristwon the second round of the presidential elections this Sunday, achieving 78.11% of the votes with 82% of the 1,895 electoral districts counted, according to data released by the Electoral Commission.
Nauseda, who has opened the doors of the country to Russian and Belarusian opposition leaders and contributed to increase Lithuania’s military spending at 2.8% of GDP, has expressed its willingness to send Lithuanian military personnel to Ukraine for training missions. He also gained points with the population in 2022 after successfully negotiating the deployment of a permanent German brigade on Lithuanian soil to act as a deterrent force on the eastern flank of NATO.
Her rival, the prime minister since 2020, Ingrida Simonytewhich had the support of the Unión de la Patria party, of sign centrist-conservativeobtained 20.34% of the votes in the elections, in which 49.61% of the electoral roll participated. This was the second time that the rivals competed for the Lithuanian Presidency since 2019, when Nauseda, a political novice then, he prevailed over the former Minister of Finance in the second round with 65.7% of the votes.
Lithuanian citizens go to the polls to vote.
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The polls prior to this Sunday’s elections, like the one published by the news portal 15min.lt, already indicated that Nauseda would obtain around 70% of the votes. According to Lithuanian television LRTif the trend of scrutiny in favor of Nausea continues, the only unknown is now if you break the support record in a presidential election.
Both rivals They do not have important differences in foreign policy and defensesince they agree on the need for greater defense spending in the face of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and are staunch defenders of NATO. They disagree However, in internal policies, such as the appointment of judges or civil unions for same-sex couples, as well as in some economic measures.
Who is it?
Nauseda Gypsies He belonged to the Communist Party as a young man.something he would later describe as “youthful indiscretion”, is a converted economist president of his country since 2019 who has firmly sided with Ukraine and has strongly positioned against Russia.
He is one of the political figures most popular in all socio-professional categories and that, with the label of independent, he obtained a comfortable victory in the elections held this Sunday in Lithuania, in which he appeared to “continue the work” started over the next five years.
Nauseda had established itself as a staunch opponent of authoritarian regimes who emerged from the former Soviet space, despite the black (communist) stain on their past, which they hid for years. When he ran for election in 2019, He did not reveal that in 1988 he had joined the Communist Party and left empty the question about his past and current political affiliations. It was in 2023 when it came to light.
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