Seimas elections 2016
Politics

Early voter turnout in 2nd round of Seimas election at nearly 69,000

Some 68,695 voters have cast their ballots in two days of early voting in the 2nd round of Lithuania’s parliamentary elections, which makes 2.88 percent of the electorate. […]

Algirdas Paleckis with his wife Olga
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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. […]

Gintautas Paluckas
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ELECTIONS. SocDems after losing – three alternatives for their future

The biggest loser in this Seimas election has been the Labour Party, having failed to pass the 5% vote barrier. That said, no less a blow was that to the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) which had been dominant in ratings nigh on up to election day. What do the Social Democrats need to do after this loss to Gabrielius LandsbergisConservatives and Ramūnas Karbauskis’ “Peasants”? […]

Birutė Vėsaitė and the Social Democrats in the Seimas
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ELECTIONS. Trap for the Social Democrats

Some of the current Social Democrat Party (LSDP) chairman’s deputies while performing poorly in the single-mandate electoral district, somehow are highly placed in the LSDP electoral roll, in fact rising in their ranking there. Political […]

Gabrielius Landsbergis, Saulius Skvernelis and Ramūnas Karbauskis, day after the elections
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After ELECTIONS – Field expected to get the most attention. Analysis.

There has been much talk about how Lithuania can expect change following the recent Seimas election. Both the leading parties, the “Peasants” (LVŽS) and the Conservatives (TS-LKD) hold the education system to be a priority with a great deal attention to the topic in their programmes. […]

Gabrielius Landsbergis
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ELECTIONS. Landsbergis: unlike “Peasants” we don’t make demands yet

The list of demands presented by the Peasant and Greens Union (LVŽS) continues to expand noted Gabrielius Landsbergis, the chairman of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) in an interview on LRT Radio. […]