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Laura Matjošaitytė – Lithuanian lawyer.
Civic electoral committees aiming to compete for seats in the city municipal council are complaining that they cannot form a coalition, while parties are able to. Discontent, five committees are saying that in terms of the electoral campaign, they are ignored and discriminated. Due to this, they hav...
With a third more civic electoral committees aiming to participate in the municipal elections than during the last, Seimas Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has stated that the conditions for establishing and operating parties should be simplified or made alike those of the committees. Political scientis...
97 public election committees have registered by the end of the deadline on Friday afternoon to compete in the upcoming municipal elections in Lithuania this March.
Russian Alliance leader Irina Rozova’s business trips are planned with the aid of the Russian embassy, meanwhile Russian Alliance members find out that they are registered in such a party from journalists, lrt.lt writes.
The campaign for presidential election in Lithuania officially started on Monday with seven candidates already lining up to take a seat from incumbent President Dalia Grybauskaitė.
The election campaign of the upcoming municipal council and direct mayoral elections officially starts in Lithuania on Wednesday.
A dual citizenship referendum planned to be held in Lithuania next year might cost around 2 million euros, the chairwoman of the Central Electoral Commission said on Tuesday.
The incumbent Lithuanian parliament has not a single member who secretly collaborated with the Soviet KGB, Teresė Birutė Burauskaitė, head of the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania said following its research.
World Lithuanians would like to have access to more voting places abroad and wish to vote not only at embassies and consulates but also at honorary consulates.
Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission (CEC) is considering turning to Latvia for consultations on controlling political ads on social media, as presidential, municipal and European Parliament elections approach.
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has suggested to consider discarding the scheme where part of the Central Electoral Commission would be proposed by political parties.
Laura Matjošaitytė, chairwoman of Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission, is staying in the post after surviving an opposition-initiated no-confidence vote at the parliament on Tuesday.
Members of the opposition in the Lithuanian parliament are initiating a no-confidence vote against Laura Matjošaitytė, chairwoman of the Central Electoral Commission.
After MP Mindaugas Bastys said he would leave the parliament, new elections in single-mandate district in Zanavykų constituency will take place before this fall.
Lithuania's parliament is starting the spring session on Saturday – the political season is expected to be hot from the very start, with the parliament scheduled to vote next week on the impeachment of Mindaugas Bastys of the group of non-attached members.
