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Conservative MP Dainius Kreivys has registered amendments to the Law on Elections to the Seimas, proposing to abandon the party-list voting system and elect MPs only in single-member constituencies starting from 2020.

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...

MP Kęstutis Masiulis of the conservative Homeland Union has proposed to establish a separate electoral constituency for Lithuanian citizens who live abroad.

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 Vilnius unit of the conservative Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) has nominated diplomat Žygimantas Pavilionis to run for a parliament seat in the upcoming general elections next year in the Naujamiestis constituency of Vilnius.

Lithuania's Ministry of Justice submitted a bill on Tuesday that, if passed, would allow creating a system for online voting in elections and referenda.

The Government of Lithuania on Wednesday backed amendments stipulating introduction of electronic voting terminals for early voting in general elections and referenda.

Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius might run for parliament during the Seimas elections in 2016 and might be nominated by the now-ruling Social Democratic Party of Lithuania in the country's second-largest city of Kaunas.

Vidas Mikalauskas of the ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party won a parliamentary mandate in the single-mandate constituency of Varėna-Eišiškės on Sunday.

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.

Lithuania's female chess grandmaster Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen will become a member of Lithuania's parliament to replace Liberal Remigijus Šimašius who was Sunday elected as Vilnius mayor.

Šarūnas Gustainis of the Liberal Movement won the MP mandate in Žirmūnai constituency in the Lithuanian capital on Sunday, defeating Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė in a close race, show preliminary data provided by the Central Electoral Commission.

120s: Šimašius triumphs in Vilnius, Liberal Movement emerges as clear winner, Order and Justice declines, List of Lithuania surprise winner, Social democrats improve their standing, Conservatives going steady, Labour Party, Peasants and Greens retain positions, Electoral Action of Poles goes up, Bre...

A large group of prominent Lithuanian politicians will vie for a parliamentary mandate at the single-mandate constituency of Žirmūnai in Vilnius on 1 March.

Lithuania's government on Monday approved the bid to allow online voting.

The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Vytautas Keršanskas Junior Policy Analyst, Policy Analysis and Research Division, at the Eastern European Studies Centre. Mr Keršanskas just returned from Moldova and shared his view of a Post Election Moldova.

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