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For occasion, Lithuania will preserve its hardline strategy towards Russia and can preserve its pro-Western international coverage, with LDSP having vocally supported growing the protection price range.
Blinkevičiūtė, a member of the European Parliament, is hoping to kind a coalition with the Union of Democrats “For Lithuania” (DSVL) and the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS), she informed reporters.
However, whereas she had mentioned earlier she would give up as an MEP to take up the job of prime minister, on Sunday she didn’t give a transparent reply to reporters who requested her to verify that plan. DSVL chief Saulius Skvernelis, nonetheless, mentioned he was “one hundred pc” certain Blinkevičiūtė would take the prime minister’s position.
The polls closed at 8 p.m. Vilnius time, counting votes from 63 constituencies that had no clear winner after the primary spherical of parliamentary elections Oct. 13.
Official outcomes had LDSP securing 52 seats out of 141, whereas TS-LKD obtained 28 seats. The nationalist-populist Dawn of Nemunas received 20 seats whereas the DVSL took 14, the Liberal Movement obtained 12 and LVŽS 8.
Some 78 parliamentarians have been elected in the course of the first spherical, with the Social Democrats prevailing.
The 141 seats within the Seimas, Lithuania’s parliament, are awarded via each party lists (70 seats) and direct illustration (71 seats).
