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The future head of state in Lithuania will be decided in a run-off election in a fortnight, after Sunday’s poll didn’t produce a conclusive victor. In the first round of the presidential election, the 59-year-old incumbent Gitanas Nausėda had been the clear favourite in the race for the highest office in the Baltic EU and NATO member state, which borders the Russian Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad and Russia’s ally Belarus. Seven candidates ran against the independent politician, among whom current Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė was the only woman. Nausėda achieved around 44% after almost a…

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