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Remigijus Žemaitaitis
Remigijus Žemaitaitis (born 30 May 1982) is a Lithuanian far right politician and member of the Seimas. He is the founder and leader of the political party Dawn of Nemunas. Early life Žemaitaitis was born on 30 May 1982 in Šilutė. In 2005, he graduated from the Faculty of Law at Vilnius University. Until 2007 he worked as a lawyer and assistant at courts. Between 2007 and 2009 he worked as an assistant to the mayor of Vilnius and, later, to Lithuanian MEP, members of the European Parliament Juozas Imbrasas and Rolandas Paksas. The latter had previously served as President of Lithuania. Political career A member of the Order and Justice party, Žemaitaitis was elected to the Tenth Seimas of Lithuania, Tenth Seimas in 2009, in the by-election in the single-seat constituency of Šilalė–Šilutė. He was reelected to the Eleventh Seimas of Lithuania, Eleventh Seimas in 2012. He was elected the chairman of the Economics Committee at the parliament. In the 2016 Lithuanian parl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seimas
The Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania (), or simply the Seimas ( ; ), is the unicameralism, unicameral legislative body of the Lithuania, Republic of Lithuania. The Seimas constitutes the legislative branch of Government of Lithuania, government in Lithuania, enacting laws and amendments to the Constitution of Lithuania, Constitution, passing the budget, confirming the Prime Minister and the Government of Lithuania, Government and controlling their activities. Its 141 members are elected for a four-year term, with 71 elected in individual constituencies, and 70 elected in a nationwide vote based on open list proportional representation. A party must receive at least 5%, and a multi-party union at least 7%, of the national vote to qualify for the proportional representation seats. Following the 2024 Lithuanian parliamentary election, elections in 2024, the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania is the largest party in the Seimas, signing an agreement to form a coalition governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolandas Paksas
Rolandas Paksas (; born 10 June 1956) is a Lithuanian politician who served as the sixth President of Lithuania from 2003 until his impeachment in April 2004. He previously served two terms as the Prime Minister of Lithuania in 1999 and again from 2000 to 2001, and as Mayor of Vilnius from 1997 to 1999 and again from 2000 to 2001. He led Order and Justice from 2004 to 2016 and was a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2019. A national aerobatics champion in the 1980s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Paksas founded a construction company, Restako. In 1997, he was elected to the Vilnius City Council for the centre-right Homeland Union and became mayor. In May 1999, Paksas was appointed Prime Minister but resigned five months later after a disagreement over privatisation. Paksas joined the Liberal Union of Lithuania (LLS) in 2000. The LLS won the 2000 election, and Paksas became Prime Minister again, but he left within seven months after another dispute ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Lithuanian Parliamentary Election
The 2024 Lithuanian parliamentary election was held on 13 and 27 October 2024 to elect the 141 members of the Seimas. Parliament members were elected in 71 single-member constituencies using the two-round system, and the remaining 70 in a single nationwide constituency using proportional representation. The first round was held on 13 October and the second round on 27 October. The elections were won by the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (LSDP), which secured 19.32% of the popular vote and 52 seats, up from 9.58% and 13 seats in the 2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election, previous elections in 2020. The Homeland Union (TS–LKD), the largest party in the ruling Šimonytė Cabinet, centre-right coalition in the Thirteenth Seimas, preceding Seimas, finished a distant second, securing 28 seats, down from its previous 50. Following the first round of the election, the Social Democrats entered into coalition talks with the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) and the Unio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Lithuanian Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Lithuania on 12 May 2024, alongside a 2024 Lithuanian constitutional referendum, referendum on allowing multiple citizenships. Incumbent President Gitanas Nausėda won re-election to a second term. When candidate registrations closed before the election, the had confirmed fifteen viable registrations; of those, twelve proceeded to Nomination rules, collect signatures from the minimum 20,000 voters. Four of those contenders were later repudiated or dropped out, leaving eight on the ballot. A second round was held on 26 May as no candidate received an absolute majority in the first round. This saw Nausėda and Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė facing off in the runoff, a rematch of the 2019 Lithuanian presidential election, 2019 election in which Nausėda had defeated Šimonytė. Nausėda won re-election, defeating Šimonytė in a second-round landslide with 75% of the vote – the largest margin of victory in a free election for any presidenti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Lithuanian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 11 and 25 October 2020 to elect the 141 members of the Seimas. 71 were elected in single-member constituencies using the two-round system, and the remaining 70 in a single nationwide constituency using proportional representation. The first round was held on 11 October and the second round on 25 October. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Lithuanian parliamentary election had the second-lowest turnout in first round elections to the Seimas since the Republic of Lithuania was restored in the early 1990s (the lowest occurred in 2004). Electoral system The Seimas has 141 members, elected to a four-year term in parallel voting, with 71 members elected in single-seat constituencies and 70 members elected by proportional representation. The voting in the elections is open to all citizens of Lithuania who are at least 18 years old. Parliament members in the 71 single-seat constituencies are elected in a majority vote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuanian Freedom Union (Liberals)
Center-Right Union (, CDS), previously knows as Freedom and Justice (, PLT) and Lithuanian Freedom Union (Liberals) (), is a conservative-liberal political party in Lithuania. It holds soft eurosceptic views. History The party was originally founded on 12 July 2014, when the Liberal and Centre Union (LiCS) merged with YES. YES leader Artūras Zuokas became a leader of newly formed party. In the 2015 Lithuanian municipal election, the party won 4.91 per cent of votes. Its best performance was in northeast of Lithuania. In the 2016 Lithuanian parliamentary election, the party won 2.16 per cent of votes in multi-member constituency. After poor results of 2019 European Parliament elections, Lithuanian Freedom Union (Liberals), Order and Justice and public election committee "Strong Lithuania in United Europe" started negotiations. In June 2020, Order and Justice and former MP Arturas Paulauskas' movement "Forward, Lithuania" merged into the party (combining with Artūras ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
