Eight candidates will run in the presidential election in Lithuania on May 12, the election commission in Vilnius said on Monday. The candidates have collected the required 20,000 voter signatures to take part in the direct election for the highest state office in the Baltic EU and NATO country, the commission said. Among them is incumbent Gitanas Nausėda, who has been head of state since 2019 and is the clear favourite in opinion polls. The ruling Fatherland Union is sending Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė into the race. If no candidate achieves an absolute majority, the two best-placed candi…