The Central Electoral Commission (VRK) has hinted at a potential removal of the Order and Justice Party from the current Seimas elections due to suspicions of buying votes, distributing the mandates the party has earned to other parties. This could turn into a harmful precedent believe political sci...
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Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission on Sunday approved the results of all single-member constituencies of the parliamentary elections held a week ago.
Suspicions of vote-buying in Šilutė, in western Lithuania, may call into question the Order and Justice Party's overall results in the country's parliamentary elections, the head of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) said on Thursday.
Lithuania's outgoing parliament was the one that appointed Zenonas Vaigauskas as the chairman of the Central Electoral Commission, therefore, should evaluate his performance, says Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužnienė.
The conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats have a narrow lead over the Peasant and Green Union in the first round of the parliamentary elections, according to the latest preliminary results published by the Central Electoral Commission.
The results of the first round of Lithuania's parliamentary elections could have been forged, says Waldemar Tomaszewski, the leader of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Union of Christian Families, after the party secured seven mandates in the new parliament so far.
A lower voter turnout in Sunday's parliamentary elections signals the public's disappointment with the incumbent government, Gabrielius Landsbergis, leader of the conservative Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD), said after the polls closed on Sunday.
With a ban on election campaigning in force, the head of the Lithuanian Central Electoral Commission has called on social network users not to encourage others to vote for any specific politician, not to share any campaign material and even not to press the Like button.
Over 36,000 voters cast ballots in the first day of early voting in Lithuania's parliamentary elections on Wednesday, which is an increase by 10,000 voters than in the same period of the last 2012 elections.
Just over 2.5 million Lithuanian citizens will be able to cast ballots in the parliamentary elections this week.
A group of observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and members of non-governmental organizations from Russia, Poland and Ukraine will observe next month's parliamentary elections in Lithuania.
A 48.9-year-old Lithuanian man with a university degree who has declared 165,927 euros worth of property and has run for elections in the past – this is the profile of a statistical candidate for parliament published by Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission.
With the Central Electoral Commission (VRK) requesting to cancel an interview with PM Algirdas Butkevičius in the LRT news show Laba Diena, Lietuva (Good day, Lithuania), citing a ban on politicians participating in Seimas elections from appearing on live television shows, there has been a backlash ...
Lithuanian citizens living abroad are not very active in registering as voters for the October general elections, the Central Electoral Commission has said.