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The victors of this year’s election to Seimas, the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LVŽS) is beginning negotiations with the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) on building a new cabinet. While there is no coalition agreement yet, it is already becoming clearer who will take what officers in...
Over 36,000 voters cast ballots in the first day of early voting in Lithuania's parliamentary elections on Wednesday, which is an increase by 10,000 voters than in the same period of the last 2012 elections.
One year after the first-ever direct mayoral elections in Lithuania, public trust in municipal authorities have grown, but the systemic problems are programmed into the local governments, experts say.
On 22 November, residents of Telšiai District in Lithuania will elect their new mayor - either Social Democrat Saulius Urbonas or Labour Party's Petras Kuizinas.
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed amendments to the Law on Elections to Municipal Councils which she herself initiated and which were adopted by parliament. The amendments are aimed at ensuring greater election transparency.
Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission has decided that elections of new mayor of Telšiai District in north-west Lithuania will take place on 8 November, 2015.
The first round of parliamentary elections in Varėna-Eišiškės constituency in southern Lithuania did not elect a new MP on Sunday, therefore, the second round of voting will be needed.
On Tuesday, at the headquarters of the Liberal Movement, a round of negotiations was held over the establishment of the ruling coalition in Vilnius City Council.
Outgoing Vilnius Mayor Artūras Zuokas, of the Lithuanian Freedom Union (Liberals) (LLS), says that his defeat in Vilnius mayoral election will only push him to venture into national politics. Zuokas says that we will run for presidency in 2019.
New mayors of Vilnius and Kaunas will have to deal with different challenges. Remigijus Šimašius, new mayor of the Lithuanian capital, will have to address the city’s financial problems and reduce heating bills, while businessman Visvaldas Matijošaitis, the new mayor of Lithuania's second city, will...
All traditional political parties suffered lesser or greater losses during the recent municipal and mayoral elections in Lithuania, say political scientists.
As preliminary mayoral election results in Vilnius indicate victory for liberal Remigijus Šimašius, professor Tomas Janeliūnas of the International Relations and Political Science Institute of Vilnius University says that the political future for outgoing Mayor Artūras Zuokas will essentially depend...
Vilnius mayor-elect Remigijus Šimašius has promised more transparency in the Lithuanian capital's municipality, making no secret of his concern about its financial situation.
Remigijus Šimašius, the Liberal Movement's candidate for Vilnius mayor, has announced he defeated incumbent mayor of the Lithuanian capital, Artūras Zuokas, in Sunday's run-off election.
Voters were less active in the run-off voting of the Lithuanian mayoral elections, as compared with the statistics in the first round two weeks ago, shows data provided by the Central Electoral Commission after polling stations closed at 8 p.m.
Lithuania's police has opened three pre-trial investigations over the past few days into possible violations during in run-off voting in mayoral elections.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday called on the country parliament to consider replacing leadership of the Central Electoral Commission before the general elections next year. The commission, she says, fails to respond to violations properly.
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.
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 ...
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.
