referendum

Efforts to hold a referendum on Lithuania’s switchover to the euro and to preserve the current national currency, the litas, have fallen through as the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania has ruled that the decision by the Central Electoral Commission (VRK) not to register a referendum initiat...

TLT/DELFI.lt spoke to Gedinimas Kirkilas, Vice Chairman of the Seimas and Chairman of the Seimas Committee on European Affairs, about one possible outcome of the failed referendum on land sale to foreigners; there is a possibility, says Kirkilas, of a European-style far right political party emergin...

The provision of the Referendum Law, which obligates the parliament to call a referendum, even if the proposal is possibly inconsistent with the Constitution, run counter to the country's main law, the Constitutional Court has ruled on Friday.

Since a week ago, welcoming political maturity in our state, I wrote that one of the evidence thereof would become an unsuccessful referendum on the restriction of right to dispose of property and other stupid questions, now I could feel like the Old Testament prophet who sent the knowledge to his p...

Early voting in the referendum on a ban on sale of agricultural land to foreigners in Lithuania started on Wednesday. Voter turnout is considerably lower than during the recent presidential and EP elections, officials say.