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The paper considers an optimal control problem governed by an elliptic obstacle variational inequality. This problem is reduced to a problem governed by a semilinear elliptic equation with mixed pointwise constraints which further are extended to \[ y(x)\geq 0,\quad \xi(x)\geq 0\quad\text{a.e. }x\in \Omega,\quad \int_\Omega y(x)\xi(x) dx\leq \alpha, \] where \(\Omega\) is the reference domain, \(y\) is the state and \(\xi\) is the additional control. It is shown that solutions of extended problems converge to a solution of the original problem as \(\alpha\to 0\). After that the author gives qualification conditions which ensure the existence of Lagrange multipliers from Lebesgue spaces in optimality conditions for the extended problems.