Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nausėda has won re-election, official results showed, in a vote marked by defense concerns over neighboring Russia, Report informs referring to The Guardian.
The count published by the electoral commission showed that Nausėda won 74.6% of votes with 90% of ballots counted after polls closed on Sunday in the second-round vote.
Voters “have handed me a great mandate of trust and I am well aware that I will have to cherish this,” Nausėda, 60, told journalists in Vilnius.
“Now that I have five years of experience, I believe that I will certainly be able to use this jewel properly, first of all, to achieve the goals of welfare for all the people of Lithuania,” he said.
His opponent, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, won 23.8% of the vote and congratulated Nausėda in comments to reporters.