Inequality Threatens Lithuanian Cabinet in Presidential Vote
- Premier, ex-finance minister, economist running neck-and-neck
- Premier vows to step down if he’s knocked out in Sunday ballot
Lithuanian presidential candidate Gitanas Nauseda casts his ballot during an early vote on May 10.
Photographer: Petras Malukas/AFP via Getty Images
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Frustration over widening inequality may topple Lithuania’s government as the euro-area nation votes in the first round of a presidential election.
While the country is heralded as a model of economic integration since it joined the European Union in 2004, many of its 2.8 million people are still feeling the effects of the global economic crisis. That’s fueled a campaign filled with populist and anti-elite rhetoric similar to that seen in races across the bloc for this month’s EU parliamentary elections.