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2019 Lithuanian Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Lithuania on 12 May 2019, with a second round held on 26 May 2019. Due to a constitutional limit of two terms in office, incumbent president Dalia Grybauskaitė was unable to run, having won the 2009 and 2014 elections. As no candidate obtained 50% of the vote in the first round, a second round was held between the top two candidates, Ingrida Šimonytė and Gitanas Nausėda. Nausėda was elected with 67% of the vote and was inaugurated as President of Lithuania on 12 July. Electoral system The elections were held using the two-round system. To win in the first round, a candidate required an absolute majority of the vote and either voter turnout to be above 50% or for their vote share to be equivalent to at least one-third of the number of registered voters. If no candidate wins in the first round, a second round is required, featuring the top two candidates. Candidates Approved candidates * Naglis Puteikis, MP, Chairman of the Lithuanian C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gitanas Nausėda
Gitanas Nausėda (born 19 May 1964) is a Lithuanian economist, politician and banker who is serving as the ninth and incumbent President of Lithuania since 2019. He was previously director of monetary policy at the Bank of Lithuania from 1996 until 2000 and chief economist to the chairman of SEB bankas from 2008 until 2018. Nausėda ran as an independent in the 2019 presidential election, which he won with over 66% of the vote in the runoff. Early life and education From 1982 to 1987 he studied in Vilnius University, Faculty of Industrial Economics and from 1987 to 1989 in the Faculty of Economics. From 1990 to 1992 he did a practice at the University of Mannheim in Germany under the DAAD scholarship. He defended his PhD thesis "Income Policy Under Inflation and Stagflation" in 1993. Since 2009 he is an associate professor at Vilnius University Business School. Professional and political career Having completed his studies, from 1992 to 1993 he worked for the Research Institut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Democratic Party Of Lithuania
The Social Democratic Party of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos socialdemokratų partija, LSDP) is a centre-left and social democratic political party in Lithuania. Founded as an underground Marxist organization in 1896, it is the oldest extant party in Lithuania. During the time of the Soviet Union, the party went into exile, emerging once again in Lithuania in 1989. The party led a government in the unicameral Seimas, Lithuania's parliament from 2001 to 2008 and from 2012 to 2016. The party is a member of the Party of European Socialists (PES), the Progressive Alliance, and the Socialist International. History Establishment Initial discussions about forming a Marxism, Marxist political party in Lithuania began early in 1895, with a number of informal gatherings bringing together social democrats of various stripes resulting in a preparatory conference in the summer of that year. Differences in objectives became clear between ethnic Jews and ethnic Lithuanians and Poles, with the fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaunas
Kaunas (; ; also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the largest city and the centre of a county in the Duchy of Trakai of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Trakai Palatinate since 1413. In the Russian Empire, it was the capital of the Kaunas Governorate from 1843 to 1915. During the interwar period, it served as the temporary capital of Lithuania, when Vilnius was seized and controlled by Poland between 1920 and 1939. During that period Kaunas was celebrated for its rich cultural and academic life, fashion, construction of countless Art Deco and Lithuanian National Romanticism architectural-style buildings as well as popular furniture, the interior design of the time, and a widespread café culture. The city interwar architecture is regarded as among the finest examples of European Art Deco and has received the European Heritage Label. It contributed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visvaldas Matijošaitis
Visvaldas Matijošaitis (born 1957) is a Lithuanian politician and the current mayor of Kaunas. External links BiographyGeriausias šalies meras Matijošaitis 1957 births Living people Mayors of places in Lithuania Politicians from Kaunas 21st-century Lithuanian politicians Businesspeople from Kaunas Vilnius Gediminas Technical University alumni {{Lithuania-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aušra Maldeikienė
Aušra Seibutytė-Maldeikienė (born 4 June 1958) is a Lithuanian political economist, politician, lecturer, teacher, publicist and book author. In 2019 she was elected to the European Parliament, having previously sat as a member of the Seimas (Lithuanian Parliament) since 2016 and Vilnius City Council (2015–2016). Biography After graduating from Antanas Vienuolis Secondary School (currently Vytautas Magnus Gymnasium) in Vilnius in 1976, Aušra Maldeikienė studied in the Faculty of Finance and Credit at the Vilnius University (then named Vilnius Order of the Red Banner of Labour State University of Vincas Kapsukas) and continued the studies in the Economics Faculty at the Lomonosov Moscow State University. She graduated from the latter in 1982, obtaining a qualification of Economist and Lecturer in Political Economy. From 1982 to 1984 she worked in Vilnius University and lectured in Aleksandras Stulginskis University (then the Lithuanian Academy of Agriculture). She cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vygaudas Ušackas
Vygaudas Ušackas (born 16 December 1964 in Skuodas, Lithuania) is Member of the Board of Directors of a Lithuanian born European-American company Avia Solutions Group, which is a Leader in End-to-End Capacity Provider for Passenger and Cargo Airlines Worldwide. Vygaudas Usackas is a former Lithuanian diplomat, from September 2013 to October 2017 he served as the European Union's Ambassador to Russia. Prior to that he served as the EU Special Representative for Afghanistan. Prior to heading Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ušackas was the Ambassador of Lithuania to the United States and Mexico from 2001 through 2006, then Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Founder of Mission Siberia. Early life and education Vygaudas Ušackas was born in 1964 in Skuodas, Lithuania. In 1982 he finished Skuodas school and enrolled to the Vilnius University, there he received law degree in 1990. Later he continued his studies at the University of Oslo, Norway and the Aarhus Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Žygimantas Pavilionis
Žygimantas Pavilionis (born 22 July 1971 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian politician, Member of the Seimas, former Lithuanian diplomat. From August 2010 to July 2015, he served as the Lithuania's Ambassador to United States and Mexico (2011). Early life and education Žygimantas Pavilionis was born in 1971 in Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1994 graduated from Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science. In 1995 get master's degree at Vilnius University Faculty of Philosophy. Diplomatic service Between 1993 and 1999 he worked as the 3rd Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania for Western Europe, Assistant of Director of the Political Department, 1st Secretary of the Political Cooperation Division of the European Integration Department, Head of this Division. From 1999 to 2001 he worked in Brussels, as an Advisor to the Lithuanian Permanent Mission to the European Union, Minister-Adviser. Between 2001 and 2002 Pavilionis was an Adviser t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Action Of Poles In Lithuania
An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government. This process is also used in many other private and business organisations, from clubs to voluntary associations and corporations. The global use of elections as a tool for selecting representatives in modern representative democracies is in contrast with the practice in the democratic archetype, ancient Athens, where the elections were considered an oligarchic institution and most political offices were filled using sortition, also known as allotment, by which officeholders were chosen by lot. Electoral reform describes the process of introducing fair electoral systems where they are no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valdemar Tomaševski
Waldemar Tomaszewski (former spelling ''Valdemar Tomaševski'', born 3 March 1965) is a Poles in Lithuania, Polish-Lithuanian politician who is also an activist for the Polish minority in Lithuania and Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Leader of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA), Tomaszewski has been an MEP 2009 European Parliament election in Lithuania, since 2009. He sits in the European Conservatives and Reformists Political groups of the European Parliament, group, of which he is a Member of the Bureau on the European Conservatives and Reformists Group Executive, group executive. Biography First elected to Vilnius district municipality, Vilnius district council for Electoral Action in 1995, Tomaszewski was elected President of LLRaL in 1999. He was first elected to the Seimas at the 2000 Lithuanian parliamentary election, 2000 election, winning 51% of the vote in the single-seat constituency of Šalčininkai. In the same year, he became deputy mayor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mindaugas Puidokas
Mindaugas Puidokas (born 19 March 1979) is a Lithuanian politician, 2020 draft winner and journalist. He was an independent candidate for the 2019 Lithuanian presidential election. Biography He graduated from the Sports University, Kaunas, in 1999. In 1996 won European Youth Basketball Championship together with stars like Sarunas Jasikevicius. In 1995–1999, he was a correspondent for the newspaper Kauno diena, Kauno žinios, Vytautas Magnus. Since 2016, he is a member of the Lithuanian Seimas The Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas), or simply the Seimas (), is the unicameral parliament of Lithuania. The Seimas constitutes the legislative branch of government in Lithuania, enacting laws and amendme .... He is one of the 9 candidates for the 2019 presidential election on 12 May 2019. References 1979 births Living people Lithuanian journalists Vytautas Magnus University alumni Politicians from Kaunas Independent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Democratic Labour Party Of Lithuania
The Lithuanian Regions Party ( lt, Lietuvos regionų partija, LRP), also translated as the Lithuanian Party of Regions, is a social-democratic political party in Lithuania. It was founded in 2018 as the Social Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos socialdemokratų darbo partija, LSDDP) following a split of members from Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (LSDP; also joined by former members of the Labour Party) following the LSDP's decision to exit a coalition government with the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union in 2017. History The party was a junior partner in government in the Seimas, Lithuania's unicameral Parliament, from 2018 to 2020. LSDDP has 50 sections. The party scored badly in the 2019 European Parliament election, scoring only 2.4% of votes and failing to elect any MEP. The party won slightly over 3% of the popular vote and 3 seats in the 2020 parliamentary election (only one MP, Andrius Palionis, was reelected). By this, the party became eligi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
