### [2024-05-13](/feed/2024/05/13/index.md)

##### 2024 Lithuanian presidential election
# Gitanas Nausėda and Ingrida Šimonytė advance to the run-off election, which will be held on May 26. 




### Sources:

1. [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/12/lithuania-presidential-election-gitanas-nauseda-ukraine-russia-threat)

### Changes:

1. Gitanas Nausėda and Ingrida Šimonytė advance to the run-off election, which will be held on May 26th.  _2024-05-14 02:39:41 (First version)_
1. Gitanas Nausėda and Ingrida Šimonytė advance to the run-off election, which will be held on May 26.  _(Current version)_

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