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Be for 15 minutes journalists work at the polling stations of political parties and will report key news from there.
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Recent background
Leaders brought by “peasants”
After updating the data on the website of the Central Election Commission – publishing it from 34 electoral districts, it can be seen that the “peasants” are currently in the lead.
Conservatives, “workers”, Social Democrats, the Freedom Party, the Liberal Movement, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Labor Party and the Center Party nationalists line up behind them.
R. Karbauskis: after the first round, nothing will be clear
The president of LVŽS Ramūnas Karbauskis avoided talking about victory. The goal is to be part of the ruling coalition.
“We would very much like to form a ruling majority in the next term <...>. We will see if there will be enough votes after the second round, now, of course, nothing will be clear after the first round, “said the politician.
Photo by Julius Kalinskas / 15min / Ramūnas Karbauskis
He did not speculate on whether any LVŽS representative would extend the victory in the first round in single-member constituencies. According to R. Karbauskis, this could perhaps be expected unless Rima Baškienė, who is not working for the first term at the Seimas.
Read more news from the LVŽS electoral headquarters here.
On election day, 66.36 percent voted abroad. voters
“According to the latest data, 35.42 percent voted on election day. 66.36 percent of voters abroad, and together with foreign votes it would be 35.96 percent,” said Laura Matjošaitytė, head of the Central Election Commission, at a press conference on Sunday.
Another 11.64 percent. Voters voted early, due to the coronavirus pandemic, early voting instead of the usual two was extended to four days.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Family elections
In the 2016 Seimas elections, 50.64 percent voted. voters. Of this number, 6.65% had expressed their wishes in advance. voters. 2 million signed up on the final voter rolls. 514 thousand 657 voters.
During the 2012 Seimas elections, turnout reached 52.93 percent and there were 2 million voters on the voter rolls. 588,418 voters. In the early voting, then, 5.51 percent expressed their will. voters.
In the 2008 elections, the overall turnout was 48.59%, of which 3.99% was on early voting and 2 million on voter lists. 696 thousand 90 voters.
A.Širinskienė: it would be fun to form a majority
According to Agnė Širinskienė, the representative of the ruling “peasants”, the election campaign was intense, it was corrected by a coronavirus pandemic.
15 minutes The study asked how many seats the Lithuanian Union of Peasants and Greens (LVŽS) could win, he said, being a bad oracle.
Photo by Valdas Kopūstas / 15min / Agnė Širinskienė
“It just came to my attention then. I think it would be really fun for us if we could form a ruling majority and continue our work. In any case, it is the Lithuanian people who make decisions or more precisely have already made a decision in the first round and only their decision should be counted and received, ”said A.Širinskienė.
He was pleased that the mandate of this ruling coalition was one in which there was an opportunity to address reducing social exclusion in the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I think this is our greatest contribution,” said the farmer.
Speaking about whether he would imagine that a coalition with the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party led by Gintautas Paluckas would be reformed, A. Širinskienė stated that after the split, this party changed significantly.
“If we look at all their votes in the Seimas, they were next to the conservatives and the liberals. Which ideologically, let’s face it, is strange. Let’s say that when the conservatives appealed to the Constitutional Court for pension funds, some Social Democrats signed, even if it seems , the essence of social democracy is to fight against the exploitation of the elderly, their accumulation of funds somewhere, profit, etc. A.Širinskienė.
According to her, if the members of the LVŽS party do not enter the second round of the elections, they will be elected to support G. Paluckas or other center-left candidates.
“The more that side is represented in the Seimas, the better the state, in our opinion,” he said.
Voter turnout: 47.16 percent.
According to data from the Central Electoral Commission, 35.52 percent voted in the Seimas elections on Sunday. voters. Another 11.64 percent. eligible residents voted early.
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17 parties compete for terms
In the Seimas elections in a multinominal constituency, that is, according to the party lists, we will elect 70 members of the Seimas.
We will elect 71 MPs in single-member constituencies. When necessary, the second round of parliamentary elections will take place on October 25 in single-member districts.
17 political parties participate in the elections. They nominated 1,724 candidates for the Seimas in a multi-member constituency.
758 candidates will try to enter the Seimas in single-member districts. 737 of them raised political parties, 23 raised themselves.
The “peasants” win the elections
During the first round of the last Seimas elections, the Conservatives won the largest number of parliamentary seats.
However, after two weeks of re-election in single-member districts, all other parties were “swept away” by the peasants.
Photo by Julius Kalinskas / 15min / Gabrielius Landsbergis and Ramūnas Karbauskis
Four times ago, the National Christian Democratic Union of Lithuania, currently working in opposition in a multi-member constituency, won 20 parliamentary seats (21.70% of the vote).
In the first round of the Seimas elections in the single-member constituency of Intakalnis, Ingrida Šimonytė was also elected, supported by the party.
During reelection, the Conservative candidates won another 10 seats in the Seimas.
Four years ago, the Lithuanian Green and Peasant Union, which had only one representative in the Seimas for the period 2012-2016, won 19 Seimas member seats (21.53% of the votes) in the multi-member constituency.
In a new ballot two weeks later, the party’s nominated candidates won elections in 35 single-member constituencies.
In a new ballot two weeks later, the candidates nominated by LVŽS won the elections in 35 single-member electoral districts.
In the first round of the Seimas elections, the third largest ruling political force at that time was the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party. Since then it has received 13 parliamentary seats.
In a new vote, the socdem won 4 more parliamentary seats.
Photo by Lukas Balandis / 15min / Algirdas Sysas and Algirdas Butkevičius
In the multi-member constituency of Seimas in 2016, the Liberal Movement won 8 seats (6 more seats during re-election), and the Polish Lithuanian Election Campaign – Union of Christian Families (LLRA-KŠS) and the Order and Justice Party – 5 seats each one. in single-member constituencies, parties won 1 and 3 more seats, respectively).
It is true that during the first round of elections in single-member electoral districts, two representatives of the LLRA-KŠS won.
More than 6 percent. The anti-corruption coalition of N. Puteikis and K. Krivickas (Lithuanian Center Party, Lithuanian Retiree Party) continued to vote.
However, in the multi-member constituency, he did not win seats in the Seimas, as a higher 7% applies to coalitions. – access to the poster of the parliament. It is true that Naglis Puteikis was elected in a new vote in the Seimas in the single-member constituency of Dane.
Valdas Kopūstas / Photo of 15min / The Labor Party awaits the results of the 2016 elections.
In the multi-member constituency, the Labor Party (4.68 percent of the votes), the Lithuanian Freedom Union (Liberals) (2.14 percent of the votes), the Lithuanian Green Party (1.94 percent of the votes) also remained behind the division of mandates of the Seimas members. ) and others.
In a repeated vote, two “employees” won the Seimas elections in single-member constituencies.
43.21% participated in the first round of the 2016 Seimas elections on voting day. voters. Upfront: 6.65 percent. voters.
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