Eight candidates to vie for president – election watchdog

The Central Electoral Commission (VRK) says eight candidates have garnered the necessary support for their presidential bids as it completed checking the signatures on Monday.

A total of 12 people were collecting the signatures of voters to be able to proceed to the presidential race.

Gintautas Kniukšta, Arūnas Rimkus and Valdas Tutkus failed to submit at least 20,000 signatures as required by the legislation and dropped out of the race. Meanwhile, Aurelijus Veryga had the necessary backing, but decided to withdraw from the election.

Lithuania will hold the presidential election on 12 May.