AlHijjah 12, 1433, Oct 28, 2012, SPA -- Centre-left parties were set to win Lithuania's final round parliamentary election on Sunday thanks to voter anger over spending cuts, likely spelling the end for a conservative government praised abroad as a model of austerity, Reuters reported. Labour and the Social Democratic Party, which won 34 of 141 seats in a first round two weeks ago, have a good chance of winning enough of the 67 remaining seats up for grabs to form a coalition, according to analysts. The two parties have promised to raise the minimum wage, shift the tax burden towards the better off and postpone the Baltic nation's adoption of the euro. Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius, who says cuts to the budget deficit saved the former Soviet republic from bankruptcy, came third in the first round and has only a slim chance of retaining power. After a collapse in economic output of 15 percent in 2009, the second-biggest decline in the European Union after northern neighbour Latvia, gross domestic product rose 6 percent last year and is expected to increase by about 3 percent this year. But many voters say they have had enough of austerity. The budget deficit fell to 5.5 percent of GDP in 2011 from 9.4 percent in 2009. The Kubilius government has drafted a 2013 budget with a 2.5 percent fiscal gap.
