Kęstas Komskis
Politics

Komskis going to court over stripped mandate

Kęstas Komskis, who lost his MP mandate by decision of the Central Electoral Commission amid vote-buying suspicions, plans to file a claim with the Lithuanian Supreme Administrative Court on Wednesday. […]

Algirdas Paleckis with his wife Olga
CORPORATE

ELECTIONS. Incredible fortune – the disappearance of A. Paleckis’ loan

The image of the controversial candidate to Seimas in the Vilnius Naujoji Vilnia district Algirdas Paleckis, who cannot boast any big income, is fairly paradoxical. He has received considerable sums from what is suspected to be the unemployed and pensioners, lives in a house on Laurai street, while a half million litas loan mysteriously up and vanished following some scandalous rhetoric from Paleckis, who had no income to cover the loan himself. […]

Big Ben
Global LT

Expatriate voting results

Based on Central Electoral Commission (VRK) data, Lithuanians voting from abroad have had a fairly different distribution of votes compared to those in Lithuania. During the first round, the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats […]

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Politics

Lithuanian watchdog calls for election silence on social networks

With a ban on election campaigning in force, the head of the Lithuanian Central Electoral Commission has called on social network users not to encourage others to vote for any specific politician, not to share any campaign material and even not to press the Like button. […]