Lithuanian Presidential Elections: Runoff

[Stefu]

I forget - what did the cands stand for, again?

[Sonic]

Adamkus is the old one, paksas is the young one. Yes, Paksas flew under bridge as an election campaign .

[Sonic]

Newer results - from 740 regions out of 2015:
R. PAKSAS - 57.48%
V. ADAMKUS - 42.52%

[Sonic]

Stefu: Paksas stands for Liberitarian Democratic Party (center), Adamkus is independent (political views are lightly right)

[Sonic]

Newer results - from 747 regions out of 2015:
R. PAKSAS - 57.59%
V. ADAMKUS - 42.41%

[Hurricane]

So the young one is winning, good. Last time we had an old bald guy as president, he went on a fishing trip to Iceland, got a cold and promptly died. Lesson: old=bad.

[Sonic]

True, Hurricane, I agree.

[Sonic]

This almost happened in Lithuania back in 1992, when one old guy was in elections. Fortunately he lost because he died in 1994...

[Sonic]

Newer results - from 810 regions out of 2015:
R. PAKSAS - 58.06%
V. ADAMKUS - 41.94%

[Hurricane]

I'm not too familiar with politics in Lithuania. When they had elections in Latvia last autumn, it seemed corruption was the main thing. Do you have any big theme now? EU and NATO?

[Sonic]

Newer results - from 850 regions out of 2015:
R. PAKSAS - 58.22%
V. ADAMKUS - 41.78%

[Sonic]

Hurricane, both candidates supports NATO and EU thus this wouldn't be a good think to advertiese in campaigns.

PAKSAS in his campaign was very active, I might say even populist. He said that he would raise pensions, make the healthcare more easily accessable and to fight the crime. PAKSAS is 46 years old. Knows English, Lithuanian and Russian languages.

ADAMKUS campaign was passive, he mostly used songs, and pictures in which he stood near GW Bush, etc. He promised almost nothing, but thus he wasn't attacked for being populist. ADAMKUS is 77 years old that means it is his last elections (in Lithuania older than 80 years can't be elected). He knows Lithuanian, English, Russian and Polish languages.

[Sonic]

Newer results - from 911 regions out of 2015:
R. PAKSAS - 58.27%
V. ADAMKUS - 41.73%

[Sonic]

From biggest cities (still not final results):
Vilnius - V. ADAMKUS is winning
Kaunas - V. ADMAKUS is winning
Klaipëda - results still unkown
Ðiauliai - R. PAKSAS is winning
Paneveþys - R. PAKSAS is winning
Palanga - V. ADAMKUS is winning
Visaginas - R. PAKSAS is winning

[Stefu]

Sonic, can we except swings as more reports come in? For instance, in Finland's last election, as the votes were reported starting from northernmost counties, it first looked like candidate Aho was winning (his party, Centre, is strong amongst farmers and generally in the north) but as the big cities started reporting, the scale tipped to candidate Halonen (Social Democrat, strongest in south and the cities)