More than 40,000 voters have registered for voting abroad since the beginning of registration for voting in the parliamentary elections due on October 11, Laura Matjosaityte, chair of Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission (CEC), has said.
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Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda proposes allowing expatriates to vote online in elections.
Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it's in contact with 21 Venezuelan Lithuanians willing to move to Lithuania, the ministry told BNS.
The Lithuanian February 16 High School in Germany will be led by Rasa Weiss, board chairman of the governing body that manages the school.
Former Lithuanian diplomat and chairman of the Lithuanian community in France Ricardas Backis has passed away at the age of 85, the Lithuanian Embassy in France said.
"Mes - lietuviai pasaulyje", the group on Facebook that unites around 14 thousand Lithuanians, invites everyone to share Christmas joy by sending small gifts or letters to each other all around the world.
Lithuanian institutions are getting ready for the relocation of Venezuelans of Lithuanian descent into the country.
Lithuanians living abroad will have a separate election constituency during the upcoming general election next year after the country's Central Electoral Commission made a unanimous decision on Tuesday to establish single-member constituency for Lithuanians living abroad.
The Cabinet will consider this week whether to help Lithuanians living in Venezuela to relocate to Lithuania because of the escalating situation in the South American country.
The Seimas of Lithuania on Tuesday created conditions for the establishment of a special single-member constituency for Lithuanian citizens voting abroad during general elections.
Small but active diaspora of Lithuanians in Egypt did not forget Saint John’s Day and created a video “I miss you Lithuania” where moments from national Lithuanian celebrations were shared.
A Lithuanian couple that owns an Irish pub in Aalst, a town in Belgium, received a postcard telling them to learn the Dutch language of “go back to Ireland”, writes “The Brussels Times”.
Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius has called on the Seimas to set up two separate parliamentary election constituencies for Lithuanians living abroad.
Lithuanians living abroad are more and more active in each election. In the latest presidential election, more than 62 thousand voters registered to give their vote for the future president. Nevertheless, some world Lithuanians have to decide either they use their right to vote and pay a lot money f...
Liberal faction at Seimas registered a resolution that suggests the Central Electoral Commission give one single-mandate electoral district to Lithuanians that live abroad.
On Sunday, 26th May, Lithuania elected a new president. Independent economist Gitanas Nauseda won the election after defeating a member of the parliament Ingrida Simonyte, that was supported by the conservative Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats. After getting results from all polling dis...
High voter turnout among Lithuanians living abroad in Sunday's presidential election is a basis for starting discussions on establishing one or two separate election constituencies abroad, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius says.
More than 38 thousand (38 812) Lithuanians abroad showed their will to give their votes in the presidential election and referenda.
World Lithuanians were active on Sunday, May 12, to vote in the presidential election and two referenda.
