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Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis has announced his decision to represent the opposition Liberal Movement during the upcoming general election.

Digital and electoral policy experts from the three Baltic states gathered virtually to exchange recommendations on mitigating the Covid-19 impact on election planning and discuss digital solutions, including internet voting (i-voting).

VILNIUS, Apr 30, BNS – Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission is considering extending voting during the upcoming general election in October and also supply election commissions with personal protection equipment, if the coronavirus remains a threat until then, its chair Laura Matjosaityte says.

Gabrielius Landsberis, leader of the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, says he sees a possibility to already now form a nucleus of responsible parties that could form a ruling coalition after the upcoming Seimas election as a counterbalance to populists.

The political forces led by Lithuanian lawmaker Remigijus Zemaitaitis, former Vilnius Mayor Arturas Zuokas and former Speaker of the Seimas Arturas Paulauskas will run for parliament as a political compound called "Freedom and Justice" and under a modified musketeers' slogan.

Lithuanians living abroad will have a separate election constituency during the upcoming general election next year after the country's Central Electoral Commission made a unanimous decision on Tuesday to establish single-member constituency for Lithuanians living abroad.

The Lithuanian government discarded on Wednesday the idea of introducing online voting in elections.

Two members of the conservative Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats and a member of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), another opposition party, won Sunday's parliamentary by-election in three single-member constituencies.

Elections to fill three vacant seats in the Lithuanian parliament were held in single-member constituencies on Sunday, and runoff voting will be needed in all of them.

The ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union plans to also support candidates nominated by other political parties in single-member constituencies next year when a new parliament will be elected.

Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius has called on the Seimas to set up two separate parliamentary election constituencies for Lithuanians living abroad.

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.