Sarunas Marciulionis elected to European Parliament

2019-05-27T14:17:32+00:00 2019-05-28T16:19:16+00:00.

Giannis Askounis

27/May/19 14:17

Eurohoops.net

Sunday was election day for Europe and Sarunas Marciulionis proudly represented basketball.

By John Askounis/ info@eurohoops.net

The ninth European Parliament election was held on Sunday. With Lithuania a member of the European Union, the country’s voters took part in the procedures and elected retired player Sarunas Marciulionis as one of their eleven spokesmans in the European Parliament.

The 54-year-old Lithuanian was a candidate with the European Green Party and gathered 32.591 votes to secure second place among the all representatives of his Party. His total was enough for the second and final spot of his Party’s Lithuanian representatives the European Parliament.

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