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Ballots are being counted in Lithuania after voters took to the polls on Sunday for a run-off presidential election that pitted the incumbent, Gitanas Nausėda, against current Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė. Results were expected in the coming hours. Nausėda is forecast to hold onto his post with a clear victory over Šimonytė. Lithuania, which borders the Russian Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad and Russia’s close ally Belarus, saw just under half of its roughly 2.4 million eligible voters cast ballots before polling stations closed at 8 pm (1700 GMT), electoral officials said. This means th…

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