The President of Lithuania was elected pilot

The ex-Prime Minister, a member of the Sejm of Lithuania Rolandas Paxas, was elected the new president of Lithuania, the main election commission of the republic said.

According to preliminary data on the results of the second round of elections received in the election commander, from all 2015 polling stations, 54.35% of voters who took part in the vote voted for the current President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus - 44.63% voted.

According to the Lithuanian Constitution, the candidate who received more votes, regardless of the number of participating in the vote, is considered to be elected based on the results of the second round of elections, Interfax reports.

On Sunday, 52.5% of citizens who have the right to vote voted in polling stations.

The official results of the elections will be announced on January 10. The new head of state will take office on February 26, after the expiration of the powers of the current president Valdas Adamkus.

According to Paxas, with his victory, the foreign policy of Lithuania will not change. “Lithuania’s foreign policy has three priorities - the European Union, NATO and good -neighborly relations. I think that we will achieve all these goals,” he said at a briefing on Monday night.

Touching upon Lithuania’s relationship with the EU and the problems of Russian transit to the Kaliningrad region, Paxas noted that this topic requires a “wider discussion”, for which the night is not suitable after the election.

He called the main problems of Lithuania, he called the youth, unemployment, low pensions, deposits that were not returned by bankrupt banks over the past ten years, bureaucracy and corruption.

As Newsru.com previously reported , 35.53% voted two weeks ago in the first round for Adamkus, and 19.66% of citizens who participated in the elections voted for Paxas. Both the first and second rounds of the presidential election participated a little more than half of the citizens who have the right to vote.

In the previous presidential election, five years ago in the second round of voting, the President of Lithuania was elected with a minimum difference in votes: then 49.96% voted for Adamkus, and 49.22% of voters who participated in the vote voted for his opponent - the current chairman of the Sejm. The President of Lithuania is elected for a five -year term.

Biography of the new President of Lithuania

The 46-year-old Paxas replaced several parties for his short political career, and visited the Prime Minister of Lithuania and the mayor of Vilnius twice.

Paxas was born on June 10, 1956 in the city of Trealiyi in the north-west of Lithuania. In 1979 he graduated from the Vilnius Engineering Institute with a degree in industrial and civil engineer. In 1984 he graduated from the Leningrad Academy of Civil Aviation and received a diploma of the pilot engineer.

During the election campaign, he actively used the image of a professional pilot. Having flown Lithuania on a helicopter rented from Avia Baltika, he crowned his “aviation” campaign with an acrobatic flight under the bridge over the Nyaris River near Vilnius, which he performed together with two more pilots.

Paxas once entered the national team of the Soviet Union for Acrobatic Literation, the Lithuanian team of the Higher aerobatics, he is Lithuania multiple champion in acrobatic flights.

PAXAS began serious political activity in 1997, when a member of the Vilnius City Council was elected on the list of conservatives, and then became the mayor of the Lithuanian capital.

In May 1999, Paxas agreed to head the government of conservatives.

On October 27, 1999, in protest against the conclusion of the Lithuanian Government and the American company Williams International, he left the Prime Minister of Mazekiu Nafta. A few days later he resigned from the post of chairman of the board of the party of conservatives, and in November 1999 he stopped his membership in this party.

Soon, with a group of like -minded people, he joined the party of the Lithuanian Union of Liberals (LSL) and was elected its chairman.

In April 2000, Paxas again became the mayor of Vilnius.

In the parliamentary elections in October 2000, Paxas was elected to the Sejm, and soon the parliamentarians again approved him as the prime minister.

In the spring of 2001, there was a split in the ruling coalition of liberals and social liberals and Paxas again had to leave the post of prime minister, and later from the post of chairman of the LSL.

In December 2001, Paxas, saying that he was “tired of internal intrigues and party dictatorship,” left his supporters from the parliamentary faction of liberals.

Soon he created a faction of liberal democrats, and in March he became the chairman of the liberal-democratic party. As a hobby, Paxas calls acrobatic aerobatics, driving a motorcycle, tennis.