“No matter where they live in big cities, towns or villages, they want change, they need a completely different government,” said Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, leader of Social Democratic Party.
She added that she will soon take “full responsibility and form the ruling majority together with the president.”
Blinkevičiūtė has that she and the centre-left Democratic Union, which took eight seats in the first round, would attempt to form a coalition together with a smaller third party.
The three parties, which so far have 34 lawmakers in total, supported each other’s candidates in the second round.
The vote in Lithuania, which borders Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave to the west and Belarus to the east, comes at a time when Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine is fueling greater fears about Moscow’s intentions, particularly in the strategically important Baltic region.
It will set the political tone for the next four years, but despite a possible shift to the left analysts say there won’t be significant change Lithuania’s foreign policy.
The European Union and NATO member is a staunch supporter of Ukraine.
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