2019 Lithuanian presidential election
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Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Lithuania on 12 May 2019.[1] Incumbent president Dalia Grybauskaitė is term-limited.
Candidates
Approved candidates
- Naglis Puteikis, MP, Chairman of the Lithuanian Centre Party
- Valentinas Mazuronis, MEP, former Minister of Environment
- Gitanas Nausėda, economist, lecturer
- Arvydas Juozaitis, philosopher, former olympic athlete
- Ingrida Šimonytė, MP, former Minister of Finance (2009–2012), former Deputy Chairwoman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania (2013-2016)
- Vytenis Andriukaitis, Lithuania's European Commissioner, former Minister of Health (2012-2014), and a co-signatory to the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
- Saulius Skvernelis, Prime Minister since 2016, former Minister of Interior (2014–2016) [2]
- Mindaugas Puidokas, MP
- Valdemar Tomaševski, MEP, Chairman of Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania
Candidates who dropped out
- Žygimantas Pavilionis, MP, former Ambassador of Lithuania to United States[3]
- Vygaudas Ušackas, former EU Ambassador to Russia. Lost TS-LKD primaries
- Aušra Maldeikienė, MP
- Visvaldas Matijošaitis, Mayor of Kaunas[4]
- Vitas Gudiškis, former President of Ice Hockey Federation of Lithuania
- Petras Auštrevičius, MEP
- Alfonsas Butė, Deputy Chairman of Party of Christian Democracy of Lithuania
- Kazimieras Juraitis, blogger
- Petras Gražulis, MP
Opinion polls
| Candidate | 18 December 2017[5][6] |
May 2018[7] | September 2018[8] | October 2018[9] | November 2018[10] | February 2019[11] | March 2019[12]
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gitanas Nausėda | 12% | 22.9% | 19.7% | 23% | 24.6% | 27.3% | 23.5% |
| Visvaldas Matijošaitis | 9.5% | 12.2% | 14.4% | 8.9% | 6.1% | 5.8% | |
| Saulius Skvernelis | 12.2% | 12.8% | 16.6% | 12.8% | 13.2% | 16% | 18.4% |
| Vygaudas Ušackas | 5.2% | 6.9% | 8.3% | 10.5% | 3.6% | 1.4% | |
| Ingrida Šimonytė | 7% | 5.3% | 8.0% | 17.5% | 19.7% | 20% | 22% |
| Vilija Blinkevičiūtė | 6.5% | – | 5.8% | - | - | ||
| Žygimantas Pavilionis | 4.2% | 2.8% | 3.9% | - | - | ||
| Antanas Guoga | – | 2.9% | 3.1% | - | - | ||
| Ramūnas Karbauskis | 4% | 2.7% | 2.5% | - | - | ||
| Remigijus Šimašius | – | 2.9% | 1.6% | - | - | ||
| Aušra Maldeikienė | 3.4% | 1.0% | 1.5% | - | 2.9% | ||
| Naglis Puteikis | – | 2.7% | 1.4% | 2.4% | 2.4% | 2.1% | |
| Vytenis Andriukaitis | – | 1.2% | 0.3% | - | - | 2.8% | 4.7% |
| Valentinas Mazuronis | – | 1.6% | 0.3% | - | - | ||
| Linas Linkevičius | 2.8% | – | – | - | - | ||
| Arvydas Juozaitis | - | - | 3.3% | - | 4.7% | 4.5% | 3.6% |
| Petras Auštrevičius | - | - | - | - | - | 1.9% | 2.3% |
| Viktor Uspaskich | - | - | - | - | - | 1.4% | |
| Other | – | – | - | - | - | ||
| Don't know | 32.6% | 10.2% | 13.9% | - | - | ||
| Don't vote | – | 11.9% | - | - | - |
References
- ^ "Seimas announced the dates for the 2019 elections". Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
- ^ "R. Valatka. Kitas premjeras ir kitas prezidentas – tas pats S. Skvernelis?". delfi.lt.
- ^ "Žygimantas Pavilionis is not going to participate in the presidential elections" (in Lithuanian). 15min.lt. 2018-09-17.
- ^ "Prezidento posto nesieksiantis Visvaldas Matijošaitis: „Apsisprendžiau per atostogas"". 15min.lt.
- ^ "Apklausa: Prezidento rinkimuose gyventojai palaikytų Saulių Skvernelį ir Gitaną Nausėdą". LZINIOS.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Kas bus Prezidentas? Apklausos rezultatai". Rokiškis Rabinovičius (in Lithuanian). 2017-10-17.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Naujausi reitingai: vieno iš kandidatų sprendimas gali situaciją pakeisti iš esmės" (in Lithuanian). delfi.lt. 2018-05-21.
- ^ "Kandidatų į prezidentus reitingai jau keičiasi: artėja didžiųjų permainų metas" (in Lithuanian). delfi.lt. 2018-09-13.
- ^ "Prezidento rinkimai: trejetukas keičiasi – į priekį veržiasi I. Šimonytė" (in Lithuanian). diena.lt. 2018-10-20.
- ^ "Naujausi prezidentiniai reitingai: į viršų lipa du kandidatai" (in Lithuanian). delfi.lt. 2018-11-24.
- ^ "Prezidentiniuose reitinguose ryškėja du lyderiai" (in Lithuanian). delfi.lt. 2019-02-23.
- ^ (in Lithuanian). delfi.lt https://www.delfi.lt/news/daily/lithuania/naujausi-prezidentiniai-reitingai-lyderiu-trejetuke-vienas-pakilo-kitas-leidziasi.d?id=80698875#cxrecs_s.
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