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Nauseda wins Lithuania's presidential runoff

Challenger, premier Simonyte admits defeat

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(ANSA-AFP) - VILINIUS, 26 MAG - Lithuania's outgoing president, Gitanas Nauseda, has won the second round of the presidential runoff. The challenger, Premier Ingrida Simonyte, conceded defeat. The runoff between the outgoing president, Nauseda, and the prime minister, Simonyte, had ended at 7 p.m.
    local time (6 p.m. in Italy). According to data provided by the Central Electoral Commission of Lithuania, the voter turnout stood at 49.6 percent, which was far below not only the record turnout of the first round (59.4 percent), but also that of the runoff five years ago (53.4 percent). (ANSA-AFP).
   

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