"We have not received the signatures by the end of the working day on Wednesday," Vaigauskas told BNS.
The initiative group, registered in March and made up of members of the Lithuanian Green Policy Institute and the Lithuanian Green Movement, had to collect at least 300,000 signatures over three months and submit them by Wednesday.
Linas Balsys, president of the Green Policy Institute, told BNS after 5 PM on Wednesday that the signatures had not been submitted by the deadline. He could not say how many signatures were collected during the three-month period.
Another initiative group is also collecting signatures for an advisory referendum on the construction of the nuclear power plant. They have to submit the signatures by 17 July.
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia hope to build a new nuclear power plant in Visaginas which is expected to be operational by 2020-2022.
2012 06 27
Nuclear referendum initiators miss deadline for submitting 300 thousand signatures
Chairman of the Lithuanian Central Electoral Commission, Zenonas Vaigauskas, has confirmed that an initiative group failed to submit signatures for an advisory referendum on the construction of a new nuclear power plant in the country. 300 thousand voter signatures were to be submitted by Wednesday.
Zenonas Vaigauskas of the Lithuanian Central Electoral Commission / Irmanto Gelūno / BNS nuotr.
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