CEC: the highest number of university graduates among the TS-LKD candidates, the lowest – in the Center Party



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Compared to 2016 According to data from candidates for the Seimas elections, this year the number of people running for Seimas who indicated they have a higher education is 11 percent higher.

When submitting application documents to the CEC this year, the majority of candidates (83%) indicated that they had higher education in their questionnaires. 2016 72% of those candidates.

4.3 percent candidates indicated they were 4.1 percent higher. – secondary education with professional qualifications. 7 percent. candidates chose not to indicate which sciences they had completed.

Most of the candidates with higher education are on the list of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party-National Union. Out of 141 candidates, up to 134 (or 95%) of the candidates indicated having completed higher education.

The Lithuanian Peasants and Greens Union lags behind in less than 1% of them: 133 out of 141 candidates have graduated from universities (94.3%).
The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party ranks third on this list: 128 out of 139 (or 92.1%) candidates from this party have graduated from higher education.
The fewest candidates with higher education are in the Center Party: nationalists. Of the 94 candidates on the party’s list, 56 candidates have completed higher education (59.5 percent).

In second place according to the fewest number of candidates who have completed higher education – “The path of courage” Of the 47 candidates from this party, 33 (70%) have completed higher education.

According to the CEC, third from the bottom of the education curve is the Lithuanian Green Party. Of 125 candidates on the party’s list, 93 (or 74.4%) have graduated from universities.

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