Central Electoral Commission

The Lithuanian Liberal Movement is losing a six-month grant from the state budget, i.e., around 395,000 euros, for gross violation of financing rules, the Central Electoral Commission decided on Thursday.

Remigijus Šimašius' decision to resign from leadership of the Liberal Movement should not affect the public opinion about the party, however, a new strong leader is needed solve the crisis emerging in the party, says Ainė Ramonaitė, professor at the Vilnius University's International Relations and P...

During the parliamentary election campaign last year, Lithuania's Liberal Movement received a non-monetary contribution from a legal entity, the Institute of Applied Politics established by the party's former member Šarūnas Gustainis, the Central Electoral Commission concluded on Thursday.

The 45,336 euros in the costs of the training organized by an Institute of Applied Politics owned by Šarūnas Gustainis, former MP and former member of the Liberal Movement, for the party should be recognized as non-monetary contribution, says a task force established by the Lithuanian Central Electo...

A task force of the Lithuanian Central Electoral Commission (VRK) has proposed finding the Liberal Movement guilty of gross violations of the law on financing of the election campaign, VRK leader Laura Matjošaitytė confirmed to BNS.

Financial obligations of Lithuania's political parties that ran for the 2016 general elections have narrowed by a factor of three, however, the total debt remains at an impressive 482,000 euros, Lietuvos Rytas daily said, citing data from the Central Electoral Commission.

The Lithuanian parliament has appointed Laura Matjošaitytė, deputy to incumbent chairman of the Central Electoral Commission, to head the election watchdog. The commission was approved two members short of its full line-up.

Laura Matjošaitytė, currently deputy chairwoman of the Lithuanian Central Electoral Commission, is likely to be nominated as the next head of the election watchdog.

The Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU) has a campaign debt of almost a million euros after the October parliamentary elections, in which the party scored a resounding victory, the daily Lietuvos Rytas reported on Friday, based on data from the Central Electoral Commission.

Kęstas Komskis, who lost his MP mandate by decision of the Central Electoral Commission amid vote-buying suspicions, plans to file a claim with the Lithuanian Supreme Administrative Court on Wednesday.

Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission has cancelled the registration of Kęstas Komskis of the Order and Justice Party for parliamentary elections amid vote-buying suspicions, causing him to lose the MP mandate he won in the elections earlier this month.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė said she was inviting leaders of the parliamentary parties that won the Sunday's parliamentary elections for a meeting later on Monday.

Social Democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has failed to win a MP seat in his single-member constituency in Vilkaviškis for the first time since 1996.

Some 68,695 voters have cast their ballots in two days of early voting in the 2nd round of Lithuania's parliamentary elections, which makes 2.88 percent of the electorate.

The image of the controversial candidate to Seimas in the Vilnius Naujoji Vilnia district Algirdas Paleckis, who cannot boast any big income, is fairly paradoxical. He has received considerable sums from what is suspected to be the unemployed and pensioners, lives in a house on Laurai street, while ...