Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius has called on the Seimas to set up two separate parliamentary election constituencies for Lithuanians living abroad.
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Lithuanians living abroad are more and more active in each election. In the latest presidential election, more than 62 thousand voters registered to give their vote for the future president. Nevertheless, some world Lithuanians have to decide either they use their right to vote and pay a lot money f...
Liberal faction at Seimas registered a resolution that suggests the Central Electoral Commission give one single-mandate electoral district to Lithuanians that live abroad.
Lithuanian citizens living abroad will be able to vote in the upcoming elections and referenda in May at around 60 places, the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says.
Lithuania's government on Wednesday proposed to the parliament to adopt amendments that would ban election consultations from third-country representatives and also increase amounts individual candidates and parties van spend on elections.
Monday marks a year since the first round of Lithuania's parliamentary elections. BNS provides an overview of the key decisions taken by the new parliament, as well as the scandals it faced and the challenges it will still have to cope with.
“I will always be less concerned about low voter turnout than high turnout with poorly informed voters”, says Thomas A. Bryer, Fulbright core scholar and visiting professor at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). According to him, citizenship does not begin, and does not end with the vote – we are...
Lithuanian citizens living abroad are not very active in registering as voters for the October general elections, the Central Electoral Commission has said.
Political observers predict that three parties - the social democrats, the conservatives and the peasant-greens - will take the lion's share of seats in the new Seimas after October's general election.
The Lithuanian Social Democrats remain the most popular party, but the newcomer Peasant and Greens Union is almost neck and neck, shows a new poll published on Wednesday. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
Sixteen political parties have submitted all the necessary documents to the Central Electoral Commission to be able to participate in Lithuania's general elections this October.
The conservative leader is too young and inexperienced to be aiming for the prime ministerial post, meanwhile the political career of the former liberal leader, who is currently fighting corruption charges, is as good as over, says Jūratė Novagrockienė, political science professor at the General Jon...
MEP Valdemar Tomaševski, the leader of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania and the Union of Christian Families, has decided not to run for parliament in elections this October. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
