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The Lithuanian branch of Transparency International (TILS), an international anti-corruption watchdog, has proposed a range of new measures to make Lithuanian political parties more transparent. They include requirements to publish more information about their financing and to impose stricter sancti...
Political parties will be allowed to spend €2.2 million on their campaigns in this year's general elections, the Central Electoral Commission said on Monday.
A Lithuanian member of the European Parliament, Antanas Guoga, who has Australian citizenship, has recently discovered that Lithuanian laws do not allow foreign citizens to run in parliamentary elections. Guoga was planning to be a candidate of the Liberal Movement party in Vilkaviškis single-member...
During a meeting with the Chair of Lithuania’s Central Electoral Commission Zenonas Vaigauskas, Lithuanian-American Dr. Darius Udrys and Lithuanian-Australian MEP Antanas Guoga were informed that they are ineligible to stand as candidates for election to Lithuania’s Seimas due to the fact that both ...
A group in Lithuania collected 69,000 signatures under a petition which obligates parliament to consider a proposed bill on name spelling in personal identification documents. The initiative, calling itself "Talka - for Lithuania's State Language", seeks to pass a law saying that only Lithuanian cha...
Heads of political groups in the Seimas, the Parliament of Lithuania, on Wednesday met with Speaker of the Seimas Loreta Graužinienė to discuss the implementation of the Constitutional Court's ruling on the size of electoral constituencies. A decision was reached that the parliamentary election syst...
The recent ruling by Lithuania's Constitutional Court, saying that there is too much variation in size among the country's voting districts, has caused some havoc with only a year left until the next general elections. A group of social democratic MPs have even suggested a radical change in Lithuani...
The Social Democrats have proposed to completely transform the current election system in Lithuania. Their proposal includes abolishing single-seat constituencies, dividing Lithuania into 10 voting districts.
Lithuania's Constitutional Court issued a ruling on Tuesday, saying that disparities in voter numbers in each of Lithuania's 71 constituencies were unconstitutional. This puts pressure on Lithuanian lawmakers to make necessary adjustments before the next general elections next year.
Lithuania's Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that current regulations concerning the size of electoral constituencies is unconstitutional.
A group of citizens plan to propose to the country's parliament to adopt legal amendments allowing to write non-Lithuanian names of Lithuanian nationals on an additional passport page.
Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission has decided that elections of new mayor of Telšiai District in north-west Lithuania will take place on 8 November, 2015.
A sociological poll has revealed that many people approve of legalising dual citizenship and would vote in favour of the proposal in a referendum. According to political scientist Algis Krupavičius, a referendum on dual citizenship might be successful if the matter was presented as the interest of t...
Vidas Mikalauskas of the ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party won a parliamentary mandate in the single-mandate constituency of Varėna-Eišiškės on Sunday.
The Central Electoral Commission (VRK) has announced that participants of the 2015 self-government election in Lithuania spent nearly EUR 6 million on political campaigning. Their income was over EUR 4.87 million, debts - EUR 1.2 million.
Last week, the Commission of the Seimas and the Lithuanian World Community held sittings and adopted a resolution urging the Seimas, parliament, not to approve a referendum on dual citizenship.
The first round of parliamentary elections in Varėna-Eišiškės constituency in southern Lithuania did not elect a new MP on Sunday, therefore, the second round of voting will be needed.
On Tuesday, new member of the Lithuanian Seimas, parliament, Audrius Nakas was sworn in.
The Central Electoral Commission held a sitting on Sunday, March 22, and confirmed the final results of municipal and direct mayoral elections.
The ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party was triumphant in the country's first direct mayoral elections, show preliminary data published by the Central Electoral Commission.
