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Early voting in mayoral run-offs begins on Wednesday
Advance voting in the second round of mayoral elections begins in Lithuania on 11 March. Voters can cast their votes at any polling stations in 60 municipalities of Lithuania. […]
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Lithuanian parliament opens spring session
The Seimas of Lithuania started its spring session on Tuesday. Congratulating lawmakers on the occasion, President Dalia Grybauskaitė welcomed decisions made during the autumn session, including those on defence spending and euro introduction. […]
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MPs will be allowed to vote freely on reintroduction of conscription
Every MP will decide individually on the reintroduction of conscripts, there will be no agreement on the matter, Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė said on Monday after a meeting of representatives of ruling parties. […]
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President Grybauskaitė slams Central Electoral Commission
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has sharply criticised the Central Electoral Commission (VRK) after facts surfaced about election violations in Trakai municipality and mass re-registration of place of residence elsewhere. According to the president, these facts attest to the lack of quality in the commissions work. […]
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Lithuanian MP proposes parliamentary resolution on Nemtsov’s murder
Lithuanian MP Emanuelis Zingeris, of the conservative Homeland Union, has proposed a resolution on the murder of Russia‘s opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. The Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas, might debate the resolution in its spring session due to open on Tuesday. […]
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Trakai to repeat local elections due to violations
Lithuania’s Central Electoral Commission decided on Sunday to cancel the results of the elections to local governments and mayors in Trakai. […]
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Dozens of people consciously work for Russian propaganda, Lithuanian MP says
Several dozen people are consciously helping Russia to spread propaganda in Lithuania, says historian Arvydas Anušauskas, a member of the Lithuanian parliament’s National Security and Defence Committee. […]
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Lithuania’s electoral commissio to consider invalidating election results in Trakai
Lithuania’s Central Electoral Commission on Friday set up a special panel to investigate the scale of alleged local election violations in the town of Trakai, 28km west of Vilnius, and suggest a decision on the recognition of the election results. […]
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6 candidates of Vilnius mayor’s party suspected of buying votes in Trakai
Six candidates of the Lithuanian Freedom Union (liberals), headed by Vilnius Mayor Artūras Zuokas, are suspected of organizing buying of votes in the elections to the Trakai district municipal council. […]
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Liberal Movement demands for rerun elections in Trakai District
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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Heated debate on conscription expected in Lithuanian parliament
Having heard opinions of some MPs regarding the reintroduction of military conscription, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that a discussion at the Seimas on the issue will probably be very lively. […]
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Deputy police chief Požela appointed head of Lithuania’s border guard service
Deputy Commissioner General of Lithuania’s police Renatas Požela is to be appointed head of the country’s State Border Guard Service, the government said on Thursday. […]
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Lithuania seeks to be among most transparent EU countries by 2025
Deputy Director of the Special Investigation Service (STT) Romas Zienka says that in 2025 Lithuania should come within the top 10 of the most transparent member states of the European Union. […]
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Parties weigh strategies and options before mayoral run-offs in Vilnius
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 Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD), two, and the remaining parties that were voted in will have one woman representative each. […]
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President’s office: Local elections showed that democracy in Lithuania is on the right track
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. […]
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Lithuania’s municipal elections: major winners and losers
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. […]
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Mayoral elections might leave 5 parliament seats vacant
If five current Lithuanian MPs who managed to get to the second round of mayoral elections win and take up posts as mayors, 5 constituencies of Lithuania would have to hold new parliamentary elections to find replacements for them, said Zenonas Vaigauskas, head of the Central Electoral Commission (VRK). […]
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Liberals emerging as Lithuania’s major party, political experts say
Increasing popularity of the Liberal Movement is the main take-away from Sunday’s local elections in Lithuania, political experts say. […]
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Liberals and conservatives agree on coalition in Vilnius
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. […]