In his words, the observers will include an election assessment mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), ten members of the Polish Sejm and Senate, nearly two dozen members of the Arab League and members of Estonian, Latvian, Polish, Azerbaijani, Armenian, and Kyrgyz election commissions.
"I believe they're coming to acquaint themselves and see, while the mission of OSCE representatives is more to check," Vaigauskas told BNS.
He said the number of observers had been somewhat smaller in earlier elections.
OSCE representatives last observed elections in Lithuania in 1996.
"They try to cover all countries. A large OSCE monitoring missions is currently in the United States, a few hundred people from OSCE were in France, now they're in Lithuania. In Lithuania, we will not have the monitoring mission representing various countries but an assessment mission," the head of the electoral body emphasized.
Polish politicians took interest in Lithuanian elections following complaints filed by the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania, who said the electoral body had revised boundaries of electoral constituencies and failed to take into account their proposals to redistribute districts to raise the number in Vilnius, which has a larger Polish population, and lower in Kaunas.
