Former Liberal Movement Party Chairman Eligijus Masiulis could have his parliamentary mandate revoked by Friday by the decision of the Central Electoral Commission and lose legal immunity. The politician is then likely to face arrest. […]
MP Eligijus Masiulis, who has suspended his leadership of the Liberal Movement pending investigation into suspicions that he could have accepted a bribe, arrived at the Prosecutor General’s Office on Monday. […]
A group of activists on Monday submitted more than 61,000 signatures in support of a legislative initiative aimed at cutting alcohol consumption in Lithuania over to the Central Electoral Commission. […]
Lithuanians residing abroad can now sign up at the Central Electoral Commission‘s website to be mailed ballots for October’s general elections. […]
Outgoing Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis could have breached official ethics by using the Ministry’s public relations resources for campaigning, according to the Central Electoral Commission. […]
A public activist group against the resettlement of refugees in Lithuania failed to collect a sufficient number of signatures to force the Seimas to consider repealing last autumn’s decision to lay the groundwork for participation in the European Union‘s refugee resettlement program. […]
The Lithuanian Central Electoral Commission distributed the year’s first subsidies – a total of €2.7 million – to nine parties. […]
A group of Lithuanian activists have presented an initiative to completely ban alcohol advertising in Lithuania to the country’s Central Electoral Commission, as they kick off a campaign to collect enough signatures for the adoption of amendments to the Law on Alcohol Control. […]
Rolandas Paksas, the leader of the Order and Justice party, rejects rumours that he might be stepping down from the party’s helm. As Paksas himself cannot run for parliament in the general elections this October, speculations continue on who will lead the party’s list. […]
A group wants to collect 50,000 signatures under a petition which would force parliament to reconsider refugee resettlement in Lithuania. […]
The Lithuanian branch of Transparency International (TILS), an international anti-corruption watchdog, has proposed a range of new measures to make Lithuanian political parties more transparent. They include requirements to publish more information about their financing and to impose stricter sanctions for political campaign financing violations. […]
Political parties will be allowed to spend €2.2 million on their campaigns in this year’s general elections, the Central Electoral Commission said on Monday. […]
A Lithuanian member of the European Parliament, Antanas Guoga, who has Australian citizenship, has recently discovered that Lithuanian laws do not allow foreign citizens to run in parliamentary elections. Guoga was planning to be a candidate of the Liberal Movement party in Vilkaviškis single-member constituency and challenge the incumbent Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius in 2016. […]
During a meeting with the Chair of Lithuania’s Central Electoral Commission Zenonas Vaigauskas, Lithuanian-American Dr. Darius Udrys and Lithuanian-Australian MEP Antanas Guoga were informed that they are ineligible to stand as candidates for election to Lithuania’s Seimas due to the fact that both hold a second passport. […]
A group in Lithuania collected 69,000 signatures under a petition which obligates parliament to consider a proposed bill on name spelling in personal identification documents. The initiative, calling itself “Talka – for Lithuania’s State Language”, seeks to pass a law saying that only Lithuanian characters can be used in passports and other official documents. Lithuania’s Polish-speaking community has been voicing demands to allow the use original non-Lithuanian name spelling in passports. […]
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 system will not be changed for the 2016 general elections. […]
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 Lithuania’s voting system, although other parties are rather sceptical about the proposal. […]
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. […]
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