Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis says Moscow’s latest accusation levelled at the Baltic States is yet another sign that Lithuania must boost its security.
elections
180 straipsnių
The Central Electoral Commission (VRK) on Monday confirmed it had received an application of Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė to join the presidential election campaign.
The Lithuanian Regions Party will not nominate its candidate in the 2024 presidential election. Earlier, the party endorsed Mantas Varaška, mayor of Kazlų Rūda, but he withdrew from the race complaining about the party’s lacking support for his presidential bid.
The Labour Party on Monday nominated its leader Andrius Mazuronis as a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, which will take place on 12 May.
Mayor of Kazlų Rūda, Mantas Varaška, has decided to withdraw from the 2024 presidential election, complaining about the lack of support from the Lithuanian Regions Party, which had endorsed him at first.
MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis has announced he will run for president despite facing allegations of antisemitism.
On Thursday, 18 January, the Freedom Party announced that it had completed ranking its candidates for the upcoming election to the European Parliament.
Former mayor of Vilnius city, Remigijus Šimašius, will participate in 2024 elections to the European Parliament.
President Gitanas Nausėda continues to be a clear frontrunner in presidential polls, while Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė significantly lags behind the top three, a poll commissioned by ELTA news agency in November shows.
If incumbent President Gitanas Nausėda faced Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė in the second round of 2024 presidential elections, he would secure a landslide victory, shows a review of two polls published by the news website 15min.lt. The next presidential race will take place in May 2024.
Next presidential elections will be held in Lithuania on 12 May 2024. Parliament passed the decree in question on Thursday with 119 votes in favour, 1 vote against and 1 abstention.
It has transpired that MP Algirdas Butkevičius is one of potential presidential candidates of the party Democrats For Lithuania. He served as Lithuania’s prime minister in 2012-2016. The nomination will be decided by the end of the week.
It has been proposed holding the next presidential election on 12 May 2024.
Some 22,882 Lithuanian citizens living abroad had registered to vote in the upcoming Seimas election in October by Monday, according to figures from the Central Electoral Commission.
22 millionaires are running for Lithuania's parliament, with Ramunas Karbauskis, leader of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, being the richest, followed by Antanas Guoga, representing the Labor Party, and Remigijus Lapinskas, leader of the Lithuanian Green Party, according to an analys...
Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission on Tuesday decided not to register eight people as candidates in single-member constituencies in next month’s parliamentary election because they failed to collect the necessary 1,000 supporting signatures.
The Lithuanian government is in favor of lowering the minimum age for standing as a candidate in parliamentary elections to 21 years, from 25 currently.
Alexander Lukashenko cannot be regarded as the legitimate president of Belarus because the presidential election was not free and democratic, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has told foreign media.
Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius will lead the Lithuanian Social Democratic Labor Party's candidate list in October's parliamentary election, the party's presidium decided on Thursday.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis will lead the Farmers and Greens Union's candidate list in October's parliamentary election, the ruling party confirmed.
