The Liberal Movement has referred to the Central Electoral Commission (VRK), asking to annul election results in Trakai District and to hold rerun elections to ensure transparency.
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After local elections in Lithuania last Sunday, the new Vilnius City Municipality Council will include 38 male and 12 female councillors. The Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania and the Russian Alliance Block of Valdemar Tomaševski delegated four women, the Liberal Movement, three, the Homeland U...
Mindaugas Lingė, the presidential advisor on internal affairs, says that the new system of electing Lithuanian mayors directly did not cause a revolution, but that people of the country themselves confirmed that the political system in Lithuania is in a good state.
The Liberal Movement has improved its position in terms of the number of council seats following the Sunday local elections in Lithuania, compared to the last municipal elections in 2011.
Increasing popularity of the Liberal Movement is the main take-away from Sunday's local elections in Lithuania, political experts say.
Representatives of the Liberal Movement and the conservative Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats agreed on Monday to seek setting up a ruling coalition in the capital city Vilnius.
Briton Mark Adam Harold will be the first foreign national to be elected to a local government in Lithuania. The candidate with the Liberal Movement party was voted into Vilnius City Council after Sunday's municipal elections.
Lithuania's ruling Social Democratic Party won the highest number of votes in the elections to local governments overall on Sunday, but are behind right-wing parties in the country's largest cities, according to preliminary election results published early on Monday.
Liberal MP Remigijus Šimašius and incumbent Mayor Artūras Zuokas will face one another in the run-off election for Vilnius mayor, the Central Electoral Commission said on Monday.
Directly-elected mayors will have the same powers they have now but they will also have a double amount of responsibility on their shoulders, Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Loreta Graužinienė says. Meanwhile opposition leader Andrius Kubilius warns that the new system of local elections will spell...
About 20 investigations have already been opened in Lithuania into violations reported during the elections to local governments, the Police Department said.
Higher early voting turnout has been reported in Lithuania's municipal and the first direct mayoral elections this year as compared to the last local elections in 2011.
Early voting in Lithuania's local elections started on Wednesday, allowing voters who will not be able to come to polling booths on Sunday to cast their ballots for candidates to municipal councils, mayors and one vacant seat in parliament.
Lithuania's government on Monday approved the bid to allow online voting.
Some betting companies in Lithuania allow placing bets on the results of the upcoming mayoral elections in Vilnius. At the moment, incumbent Artūras Zuokas is thought to have the best chances of winning, while Julius Panka from the Lithuanian Nationalist Union has the slimmest chances.
The Lithuanian Supreme Administrative Court on Friday satisfied a plea filed by British citizen Mark Adam Harold against the decision of the Central Electoral Commission to refuse him registration as candidate of the Liberal Movement for the upcoming local elections.
According to the Central Electoral Commission (VRK), 23 political parties intend to participate in the municipal elections on 1 March 2015. The deadline to submit application documents to the VRK was Monday, 29 December.
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has commented on the new mayoral election procedures and said that the the self-government reform has not been completed and will require additional amendments to the current laws.
Vilnius Mayor Artūras Zuokas confirmed on Monday his plans to seek re-election in the upcoming municipal elections in March.
On 20 December, the Council of the Labour Party confirmed the final list of their candidates in the direct mayoral elections. According to Vytautas Gapšys, head of the party's electoral staff, the Labour Party will be vying for 56 mayoral posts and expects to win more than 10 of them.
