The final results of the first round of Lithuania's presidential election put Ingrida Simonyte's lead over Gitanas Nauseda at 3,935 votes.
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More than 38 thousand (38 812) Lithuanians abroad showed their will to give their votes in the presidential election and referenda.
Just over 90,700 people, or 3.74 percent of all eligible voters, cast their ballots over the first three days of early voting in Lithuania's presidential election and two referendums, according to the latest figures released by the Central Electoral Commission on Thursday.
MP Naglis Puteikis says he is considering pulling out of the Lithuanian presidential race, but does not know yet which candidate he will support.
Social exclusion, emigration, a lack of confidence in one's country, corruption. These and other threats to national security were identified by presidential candidates during a debate held by the Lithuanian public television LRT and the Central Electoral Commission on Thursday.
The Lithuanian Central Electoral Commission registered on Thursday six people as presidential candidates and continues to verify voter signatures submitted by three other aspirants.
On Wednesday evening, the social network Facebook saw a mass blocking of all Internet addresses (URLs) linking to the electoral webpage that allows citizens to place their signatures in support of prof. Vytautas Radžvilas’ electoral committee. Signatures are required to grant it the right to partici...
On Thursday, pages with signatures from those supporting presidential candidate Ingrida Šimonytė’s bid were presented to the Central Electoral Commission (VRK) by I. Šimonytė‘s headquarters chief Paulius Lukauskas, volunteer coordinator Deimantė Žebrauskaitė and volunteer team, a press release from ...
Based on the ruling parties’ results in the municipal elections, we can predict their potential results in the Seimas elections.
Participating in an Eastern Europe Studies Centre (RESC) discussion, Gitanas Nausėda once more stated his programme guidelines and stressed that we must not only feel like NATO members, but must also strengthen our position of membership, also adding that while the European Union is crucial, we shou...
On Monday, the composition of municipal councils is beginning to emerge.
The municipal election marathon that launched on Wednesday has brought with it a slew of breaches, which will be investigated by not only the Central Electoral Commission (VRK), but also police officers, lrt.lt writes.
Preliminary voting in the municipal and mayor elections continues on Thursday, lrt.lt writes.
Civic electoral committees aiming to compete for seats in the city municipal council are complaining that they cannot form a coalition, while parties are able to. Discontent, five committees are saying that in terms of the electoral campaign, they are ignored and discriminated. Due to this, they hav...
Last week, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis announced his presidential bid. This decision has finalised matters on the political stage. Gitanas Nausėda, S. Skvernelis and Ingrida Šimonytė gather 40% of the vote according to surveys. Another 40% of potential voters are undecided and the remaining 20...
A journalist investigation has uncovered facts that Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and Minister of Economy Virginijus Sinkevičius, running in respectively the presidential and municipal elections, are constantly and systematically consulted by public relations consultant Darius Gudelis, the owner...
That the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union is backed by the shareholders of various companies is a circumvention of the law, which not only the Central Electoral Commission (VRK) should take interest in, but also security institutions, Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats Seimas group m...
The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) has appealed to the Special Investigation Service (STT) with a request to evaluate whether financial support from Klaipėda business to Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) candidate to Klaipėda mayor, Arvydas Vaitkus is not a case of open political...
With a third more civic electoral committees aiming to participate in the municipal elections than during the last, Seimas Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has stated that the conditions for establishing and operating parties should be simplified or made alike those of the committees. Political scientis...
97 public election committees have registered by the end of the deadline on Friday afternoon to compete in the upcoming municipal elections in Lithuania this March.