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By `Linas Jegelevicius in Vilnius Like five years ago, in the runoff of the Lithuanian presidential election on May 26 the same names will be on the ballot: the incumbent President Gitanas Nauseda, and Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte, the candidate of the ruling Homeland Union-LKD. The preliminary results show that Nauseda received just over 44 per cent of the votes in the first round of voting on May 12, and Simonyte garnered almost 20 per cent, according to the country’s election watchdog, the country’s Central Electoral Commission. ‘Yes, I wanted to win in the first round, but apparently we…

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