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The Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas), or simply the Seimas, is the unicameral parliament of Lithuania. [1]

135 relations: Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, Adolfas Šleževičius, Albertas Šimėnas, Aleksandras Abišala, Algimantas Nasvytis, Algirdas Brazauskas, Algirdas Butkevičius, Andrius Kubilius, Antanas Merkys, Antanas Smetona, Antanas Tumėnas, Arūnas Valinskas, Artūras Paulauskas, Arvydas Nekrošius, Augustinas Voldemaras, Česlovas Juršėnas, Bronislovas Lubys, Casimir IV Jagiellon, Constituent Assembly of Lithuania, Constitution of Lithuania, Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania, Eighth Seimas of Lithuania, Election threshold, Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Alliance, Electoral district, Eleventh Seimas of Lithuania, Ernestas Galvanauskas, European Union, First Seimas of Lithuania, Fourth Seimas of Lithuania, Gediminas Avenue, Gediminas Kirkilas, Gediminas Vagnorius, Government of Lithuania, Grodno, Homeland Union, Irena Šiaulienė, Irena Degutienė, January Events (Lithuania), Jonas Černius, Juozas Tūbelis, Kazimira Prunskienė, Kazys Grinius, Labour Party (Lithuania), Largest remainder method, Laurynas Stankevičius, Leonas Bistras, Liberal and Centre Union, Liberal Movement (Lithuania), Liberal Union of Lithuania, ..., Liberum veto, List of Speakers of the Seimas, Lithuania, Lithuanian Centre Party, Lithuanian Centre Union, Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party, Lithuanian constitutional referendum, 1992, Lithuanian Council of Lords, Lithuanian Democratic Party, Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, Lithuanian Freedom Union (Liberals), Lithuanian Green Party, Lithuanian Liberty Union, Lithuanian litas, Lithuanian Nationalist Union, Lithuanian parliamentary election, 1922, Lithuanian parliamentary election, 1923, Lithuanian parliamentary election, 1926, Lithuanian parliamentary election, 1936, Lithuanian parliamentary election, 1992, Lithuanian parliamentary election, 1996, Lithuanian parliamentary election, 2000, Lithuanian parliamentary election, 2004, Lithuanian parliamentary election, 2008, Lithuanian parliamentary election, 2012, Lithuanian parliamentary election, 2016, Lithuanian People's Party, Lithuanian Popular Peasants' Union, Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees, Loreta Graužinienė, Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars, Mykolas Sleževičius, National Resurrection Party, NATO, Neris, New Union (Social Liberals), Ninth Seimas of Lithuania, Occupation of the Baltic states, Opposition (parliamentary), Order and Justice, ORLEN Lietuva, Parallel voting, Partitions of Poland, People's Seimas, Plenary session, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Proportional representation, Rima Baškienė, Rolandas Paksas, Rubber stamp (politics), Saulius Skvernelis, Sąjūdis, Second Seimas of Lithuania, Seimas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Seimas Palace, Sejm, Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Seventh Seimas of Lithuania, Sixth Seimas of Lithuania, Social Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania, Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, Soviet Union, Statutes of Lithuania, Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas, Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR, Tenth Seimas of Lithuania, The Way of Courage, Third Seimas of Lithuania, Treaty of Salynas, Twelfth Seimas of Lithuania, Unicameralism, Union of Lublin, Viktoras Muntianas, Viktoras Pranckietis, Vilnius, Vladas Mironas, Vydas Gedvilas, Vytautas Landsbergis, Vytautas Petrulis, YES (Lithuania), Young Lithuania, 1905 Russian Revolution, 1926 Lithuanian coup d'état, 1940 Soviet ultimatum to Lithuania, 1998 Russian financial crisis. Expand index (85 more) »

Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania

The Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania or Act of March 11 (Aktas dėl Lietuvos nepriklausomos valstybės atstatymo) was an independence declaration by the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic adopted on March 11, 1990, signed by all members of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania led by Sąjūdis.

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Adolfas Šleževičius

Adolfas Šleževičius (born 2 February 1948 in Mirčiškės, Šiauliai County, Lithuania) is a former Prime Minister of Lithuania.

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Albertas Šimėnas

Albertas Šimėnas (born February 17, 1950) was Prime Minister of Lithuania for 3 days, from January 10 to January 13, 1991.

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Aleksandras Abišala

Aleksandras Abišala (born 28 December 1955 in Inta, Russian SFSR) is a former Lithuanian politician and Prime Minister of Lithuania (1992).

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Algimantas Nasvytis

Algimantas Nasvytis (born April 8, 1928, in Kaunas) is a Lithuanian architect.

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Algirdas Brazauskas

Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas (1932 – 2010) was the first President of a newly independent post-Soviet Lithuania from 1993 to 1998 and Prime Minister from 2001 to 2006.

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Algirdas Butkevičius

Algirdas Butkevičius (born 19 November 1958) is a former Prime Minister of Lithuania, serving between 2012 and 2016.

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Andrius Kubilius

Andrius Kubilius (born 8 December 1956) is a Lithuanian politician who was Prime Minister of Lithuania from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012.

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Antanas Merkys

Antanas Merkys (1 February 1887 – 5 March 1955) was the last Prime Minister of independent Lithuania, serving from November 1939 to June 1940.

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Antanas Smetona

Antanas Smetona (10 August 1874 – 9 January 1944) was one of the most important Lithuanian political figures between World War I and World War II.

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Antanas Tumėnas

Antanas Tumėnas (May 13, 1880 in Kurkliečiai, near Rokiškis – February 8, 1946 in Bachmanning, Austria) was a Lithuanian politician, teacher, professor of law, judge, Prime Minister of Lithuania in the 10th cabinet, Chairman of the Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania.

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Arūnas Valinskas

Arūnas Valinskas (born 28 November 1966 in Lazdijai) is a Lithuanian showman, TV producer, TV show host and politician.

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Artūras Paulauskas

Artūras Paulauskas (born 23 August 1953 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian politician.

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Arvydas Nekrošius

Arvydas Nekrošius (born 10 March 1984) is a Lithuanian engineer energetic, technology Ph.D., a politician.

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Augustinas Voldemaras

Augustinas Voldemaras (16 April 1883 – 16 May 1942) was a Lithuanian nationalist political figure.

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Česlovas Juršėnas

Česlovas Juršėnas (born 18 May 1938.) is a Lithuanian politician and a former Speaker of the Seimas, the Lithuanian parliament.

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Bronislovas Lubys

Bronislovas Lubys (8 October 1938 – 23 October 2011) was a Lithuanian entrepreneur, former Prime Minister of Lithuania, signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, and businessman.

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Casimir IV Jagiellon

Casimir IV KG (Kazimierz IV Andrzej Jagiellończyk; Kazimieras Jogailaitis; 30 November 1427 – 7 June 1492) of the Jagiellonian dynasty was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447, until his death.

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Constituent Assembly of Lithuania

The Constituent Assembly of Lithuania (Steigiamasis Seimas) was democratically elected in 1920 to draft and adopt the 1922 constitution of Lithuania.

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Constitution of Lithuania

The Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublikos Konstitucija) defines the legal foundation for all laws passed in the Republic of Lithuania.

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Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania

Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania (Lietuvos demokratinė darbo partija, LDDP) was a social democratic political party in Lithuania in 1990s.

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Eighth Seimas of Lithuania

The Eighth Seimas of Lithuania was a parliament (Seimas) elected in Lithuania.

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Election threshold

The electoral threshold is the minimum share of the primary vote which a candidate or political party requires to achieve before they become entitled to any representation in a legislature.

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Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Alliance

Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Alliance or EAPL–CFA (Lietuvos lenkų rinkimų akcija – Krikščioniškų šeimų sąjunga or LLRA–KŠS; Akcja Wyborcza Polaków na Litwie – Związek Chrześcijańskich Rodzin or AWPL–ZCHR) is a political party in Lithuania.

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Electoral district

An electoral district, (election) precinct, election district, or legislative district, called a voting district by the US Census (also known as a constituency, riding, ward, division, electoral area, or electorate) is a territorial subdivision for electing members to a legislative body.

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Eleventh Seimas of Lithuania

The Eleventh Seimas of Lithuania was a parliament (Seimas) elected in Lithuania.

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Ernestas Galvanauskas

Ernestas Galvanauskas (November 20, 1882 – July 24, 1967) was a Lithuanian engineer, politician and one of the founders of the Peasant Union (which later merged with the Lithuanian Popular Peasants' Union).

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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First Seimas of Lithuania

First Seimas of Lithuania was the first parliament (Seimas) democratically elected in Lithuania after it declared independence on February 16, 1918.

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Fourth Seimas of Lithuania

The Fourth Seimas of Lithuania was the fourth parliament (Seimas) elected in Lithuania after it declared independence on 16 February 1918.

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Gediminas Avenue

Gediminas Avenue (Gedimino prospektas) is the main street of Vilnius, where most of the governmental institutions of Lithuania are concentrated, including the government, parliament, Constitutional Court and ministries.

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Gediminas Kirkilas

Gediminas Kirkilas (born 30 August 1951) is a Lithuanian politician who was Prime Minister of Lithuania from 2006 to 2008.

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Gediminas Vagnorius

Gediminas Vagnorius (born 10 June 1957) is a Lithuanian politician and signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.

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Government of Lithuania

Government of the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublikos Vyriausybė) is the cabinet of Lithuania, exercising executive power in the country.

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Grodno

Grodno or Hrodna (Гродна, Hrodna; ˈɡrodnə, see also other names) is a city in western Belarus.

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Homeland Union

The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (Tėvynės sąjunga Lietuvos krikščionys demokratai, TS-LKD) is a centre-right political party in Lithuania.

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Irena Šiaulienė

Irena Šiaulienė (born 1955) is a Lithuanian politician who is the deputy speaker of Seimas, the unicameral parliament of Lithuania.

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Irena Degutienė

Irena Degutienė (born 1 June 1949 in Šiauliai, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Lithuanian politician and member of the conservative Homeland Union, currently Speaker of Seimas.

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January Events (Lithuania)

The January Events (Sausio įvykiai) took place in Lithuania between 11 and 13 January 1991 in the aftermath of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.

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Jonas Černius

Jonas Černius (6 January 1898, Kupiškis, Kovno Governorate – 3 July 1977, Los Angeles) was a Lithuanian general and Prime Minister.

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Juozas Tūbelis

Juozas Tūbelis (April 9, 1882 in Ilgalaukis, Kovno Governorate – September 30, 1939, Kaunas) was a Lithuanian politician, Prime Minister and member and chairman of the Lithuanian Nationalists Union.

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Kazimira Prunskienė

Kazimira Danutė Prunskienė (born 26 February 1943 in Vasiuliškė, Švenčionys district municipality) is a Lithuanian politician who was the first Prime Minister of Lithuania after the declaration of independence of 11 March 1990 and Minister of Agriculture in the government of Gediminas Kirkilas.

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Kazys Grinius

Kazys Grinius (17 December 18664 June 1950) was the third President of Lithuania, and held that office from 7 June 1926 to 17 December 1926.

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Labour Party (Lithuania)

The Labour Party (Darbo Partija, DP) is a centre-left populist political party in Lithuania.

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Largest remainder method

The largest remainder method (also known as Hare-Niemeyer method, Hamilton method or as Vinton's method) is one way of allocating seats proportionally for representative assemblies with party list voting systems.

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Laurynas Stankevičius

Laurynas Mindaugas Stankevičius (10 August 1935 – 17 March 2017) was a Lithuanian economist and politician who served as the 7th Prime Minister of Lithuania from February to November 1996.

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Leonas Bistras

Leonas Bistras (20 October 1890 in Liepāja – 17 October 1971 in Kaunas) was one of the most prominent Lithuanian politicians of the interwar period.

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Liberal and Centre Union

The Liberal and Centre Union (Liberalų ir centro sąjunga, LiCS) was a conservative-liberal political party in Lithuania active between 2003 and 2014.

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Liberal Movement (Lithuania)

The Liberal Movement (Liberalų Sąjūdis), formally the Liberals' Movement of the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublikos Liberalų sąjūdis) and abbreviated to LRLS, is a conservative-liberal political party in Lithuania, fourth largest in 2016 parliamentary election.

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Liberal Union of Lithuania

The Liberal Union of Lithuania was a political party in Lithuania.

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Liberum veto

The liberum veto (Latin for "free veto") was a parliamentary device in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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List of Speakers of the Seimas

The Speaker of the Seimas (Seimo pirmininkas, literally translated as Chairman of the Seimas) is the presiding officer of the Seimas, the parliament of Lithuania.

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Lithuania

Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of northern-eastern Europe.

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Lithuanian Centre Party

The Lithuanian Centre Party (Lietuvos Centro Partija) is a political party in Lithuania.

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Lithuanian Centre Union

The Lithuanian Centre Union, or Centre Union of Lithuania (Lietuvos centro sąjunga, LCS), was a social liberal political party in Lithuania that existed between 1993 and 2003.

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Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party

The Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party (Lietuvos krikščionių demokratų partija, LKDP) was a Christian-democratic political party in Lithuania.

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Lithuanian constitutional referendum, 1992

A referendum on a new constitution was held in Lithuania on 25 October 1992,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1201 alongside the first round of parliamentary elections.

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Lithuanian Council of Lords

The Lithuanian Council of Lords (Ponų taryba) was the main permanent institution of central government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania active in its capital city of Vilnius.

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Lithuanian Democratic Party

The Lithuanian Democratic Party (Lietuvių demokratų partija, LDP) was a political party in Lithuania The original party was established in 1902.

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Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union

The Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (Lietuvos valstiečių ir žaliųjų sąjunga, LVŽS; also known as Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union, formerly Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union, Lietuvos valstiečių liaudininkų sąjunga, LVLS) is a centre-right agrarian political party in Lithuania led by industrial farmer Ramūnas Karbauskis.

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Lithuanian Freedom Union (Liberals)

Lithuanian Freedom Union (Liberals) (Lietuvos Laisvės Sąjunga (Liberalai), LLS) or simply Lithuanian Freedom Union (Lietuvos Laisvės Sąjunga), is a centre-right political party in Lithuania.

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Lithuanian Green Party

The Lithuanian Green Party (Lietuvos Žaliųjų Partija, LŽP) is a green political party in Lithuania.

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Lithuanian Liberty Union

The Lithuanian Liberty Union (Lietuvos laisvės sąjunga, LLS) was a political party in Lithuania.

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Lithuanian litas

The Lithuanian litas (ISO currency code LTL, symbolized as Lt; plural litai (nominative) or litų (genitive)) was the currency of Lithuania, until 1 January 2015, when it was replaced by the euro.

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Lithuanian Nationalist Union

The Lithuanian Nationalist and Republican Union (Lietuvių tautininkų sąjunga, LTS), also known as the Nationalists (Tautininkai), is a nationalist, right-wing political party in Lithuania, founded in 1924 when the Party of National Progress merged with the Lithuanian Farmers' Association.

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Lithuanian parliamentary election, 1922

Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 10 and 11 October 1922.

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Lithuanian parliamentary election, 1923

Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 12 and 13 May 1923.

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Lithuanian parliamentary election, 1926

Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania between 8 and 10 May 1926.

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Lithuanian parliamentary election, 1936

Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 10 June 1936, Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania after a new law on holding elections was issued by presidential decree.

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Lithuanian parliamentary election, 1992

Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania in two stages on 25 October and 15 November 1992.

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Lithuanian parliamentary election, 1996

Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania in two stages on 20 October and 10 November 1996.

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Lithuanian parliamentary election, 2000

Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 8 October 2000.

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Lithuanian parliamentary election, 2004

Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 10 October 2004, with a second round on 24 October 2004 in the constituencies where no candidate won a majority in the first round of voting.

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Lithuanian parliamentary election, 2008

Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 12 October 2008, with a second round on 26 October in the constituencies where no candidate won a majority in the first round of voting.

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Lithuanian parliamentary election, 2012

Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 14 October 2012, with a second round on 28 October in the constituencies where no candidate won a majority in the first round of voting.

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Lithuanian parliamentary election, 2016

Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 9 October 2016, with a second round held on 23 October in the constituencies where no candidate won a majority in the first round of voting.

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Lithuanian People's Party

Lithuanian People's Party (Lietuvos liaudies partija) is a political party in Lithuania.

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Lithuanian Popular Peasants' Union

The Lithuanian Popular Peasants' Union (Lietuvos valstiečių liaudininkų sajunga, LVLS) was a centre-left political party in Lithuania between 1922 and 1936.

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Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees

The Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees (Lietuvos politinių kalinių ir tremtinių sąjunga, LPKTS) was a political party in Lithuania between 1990 and 2004.

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Loreta Graužinienė

Loreta Graužinienė (born 10 January 1963) is a Lithuanian politician, former Speaker of the Seimas, lrs.lt, and former leader of the Lithuanian Labour party.

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Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars

The Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars (also known as Russo-Lithuanian Wars, or just either Muscovite Wars or Lithuanian Wars)The conflicts are referred to as 'Muscovite wars' (wojny moskiewskie) in Polish historiography and as 'Lithuanian wars' in Russian one; English historiography uses both, ex.

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Mykolas Sleževičius

Mykolas Sleževičius (21 February 1882 – 11 November 1939) was a Lithuanian lawyer, political and cultural figure, and journalist.

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National Resurrection Party

National Resurrection Party (Tautos prisikėlimo partija; sometimes translated as Rising Nation Party or National Revival Party) was a centre-right political party in Lithuania.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord; OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries.

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Neris

The Neris or Viliya (Ві́лія, Wilia) is a river rising in Belarus.

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New Union (Social Liberals)

The New Union (Social Liberals) (Naujoji sąjunga (socialliberalai), NS) was a social-liberal political party in Lithuania.

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Ninth Seimas of Lithuania

The Ninth Seimas of Lithuania was a parliament (Seimas) elected in Lithuania.

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Occupation of the Baltic states

The occupation of the Baltic states involved the military occupation of the three Baltic states—Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania—by the Soviet Union under the auspices of the 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in June 1940 followed by their incorporation into the USSR as constituent republics in August 1940 - most Western powers never recognised this incorporation.

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Opposition (parliamentary)

Parliamentary opposition is a form of political opposition to a designated government, particularly in a Westminster-based parliamentary system.

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Order and Justice

Party Order and Justice (Partija tvarka ir teisingumas, PTT), formerly the Liberal Democratic Party (Liberalų Demokratų Partija, LDP), is a right-wing national-conservative political party in Lithuania that self-identifies as 'left-of-centre'.

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ORLEN Lietuva

ORLEN Lietuva (former Mažeikių Nafta) is a Polish company centered on the Mažeikiai oil refinery and oil-processing plant in Lithuania.

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Parallel voting

Parallel voting describes a mixed electoral system where voters in effect participate in two separate elections for a single chamber using different systems, and where the results in one election have little or no impact on the results of the other.

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Partitions of Poland

The Partitions of Poland were three partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place toward the end of the 18th century and ended the existence of the state, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland and Lithuania for 123 years.

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People's Seimas

The People's Seimas (Liaudies Seimas) was a puppet legislature organized in order to give legal sanction the occupation and annexation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union.

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Plenary session

A plenary session is a session of a conference which all members of all parties are to attend.

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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, after 1791 the Commonwealth of Poland, was a dualistic state, a bi-confederation of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch, who was both the King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania.

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Proportional representation

Proportional representation (PR) characterizes electoral systems by which divisions into an electorate are reflected proportionately into the elected body.

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Rima Baškienė

Rima Baškienė (born 25 October 1960) is a Lithuanian politician, a Member of the Seimas since 2004 and the current First Deputy Speaker of the Seimas.

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Rolandas Paksas

Rolandas Paksas (born 10 June 1956) is a Lithuanian politician who was President of Lithuania from 2003 to 2004.

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Rubber stamp (politics)

A rubber stamp, as a political metaphor, refers to a person or institution with considerable de jure power but little de facto power; one that rarely or never disagrees with more powerful organs.

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Saulius Skvernelis

Saulius Skvernelis (born 23 July 1970) is a Lithuanian politician who has been Prime Minister of Lithuania since 2016.

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Sąjūdis

Sąjūdis ("Movement"), initially known as the Reform Movement of Lithuania (Lietuvos Persitvarkymo Sąjūdis), is the political organisation which led the struggle for Lithuanian independence in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Second Seimas of Lithuania

The Second Seimas of Lithuania was the second parliament (Seimas) democratically elected in Lithuania after it declared independence on February 16, 1918.

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Seimas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Seimas (Sejm, Sojm, Сойм) was an early parliament in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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Seimas Palace

Seimas Palace (Seimo rūmai) is the seat of the Seimas, the Lithuanian parliament.

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Sejm

The Sejm of the Republic of Poland (Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) is the lower house of the Polish parliament.

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Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

The general sejm (sejm walny, also translated as the full or ordinary sejm) was the bicameral parliament of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Seventh Seimas of Lithuania

The Seventh Seimas of Lithuania was the parliament (Seimas) elected in Lithuania.

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Sixth Seimas of Lithuania

The Sixth Seimas of Lithuania was the first parliament (Seimas) elected in Lithuania after it restored independence on 11 March 1990.

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Social Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania

The Social Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania (Lietuvos socialdemokratų darbo partija, LSDDP) is a social-democratic political party in Lithuania.

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Social Democratic Party of Lithuania

The Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (Lietuvos socialdemokratų partija, LSDP) is a social-democratic political party in Lithuania.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Statutes of Lithuania

The Statutes of Lithuania, originally known as the Statutes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were a 16th-century codification of all the legislation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and its successor, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas

The Supreme Council – Restoration Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania (officially known as Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania), was the supreme governing body, elected in 1990.

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Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR

The Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR (Lietuvos TSR Aukščiausioji Taryba; Верховный Совет Литовской ССР, Verkhovnyy Sovet Litovskoy SSR) was the supreme soviet (main legislative institution) of the Lithuanian SSR, one of the republics comprising the Soviet Union.

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Tenth Seimas of Lithuania

The Tenth Seimas of Lithuania was a parliament (Seimas) elected in Lithuania.

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The Way of Courage

The Way of Courage (Drąsos Kelias) is a populist political party in Lithuania.

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Third Seimas of Lithuania

The Third Seimas of Lithuania was the third parliament (Seimas) democratically elected in Lithuania after it declared independence on February 16, 1918.

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Treaty of Salynas

Treaty of Salynas (Frieden von Sallinwerder, Salyno sutartis) was a peace treaty signed on 12 October 1398 by the Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights Konrad von Jungingen.

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Twelfth Seimas of Lithuania

The Twelfth Seimas of Lithuania is a parliament (Seimas) in Lithuania.

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Unicameralism

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Union of Lublin

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Viktoras Muntianas

Viktoras Muntianas (born 11 November 1951 in Marijampolė, Lithuanian SSR) is a Lithuanian politician of Moldovan descent and former Speaker of the Seimas.

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Viktoras Pranckietis

Viktoras Pranckietis (born 26 July 1958) is a Lithuanian agronomist and politician.

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Vilnius

Vilnius (see also other names) is the capital of Lithuania and its largest city, with a population of 574,221.

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Vladas Mironas

Vladas Mironas (22 June 1880 in Kuodiškiai, Kovno Governorate – 18 February 1953 in Vladimir) was a Lithuanian priest, politician and later Prime Minister of Lithuania.

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Vydas Gedvilas

Vydas Gedvilas (born 17 July 1959 in the village of Užgiriai, Kelmė district, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Lithuanian basketball coach and politician, former Speaker of the Seimas, member of the Labour Party.

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Vytautas Landsbergis

Vytautas Landsbergis (born 18 October 1932) is a Lithuanian conservative politician and Member of the European Parliament.

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Vytautas Petrulis

Vytautas Petrulis (born February 3, 1890 in Katelišės, near Vabalninkas; executed in 1942, near Uchta, RSFSR) was a Lithuanian politician, one of the main figures in the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party, and an accountant.

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YES (Lithuania)

YES – Homeland Revival and Perspective (TAIP – Tėvynės atgimimas ir perspektyva) was a centre-right political party in Lithuania.

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Young Lithuania

Young Lithuania (Partija „Jaunoji Lietuva“) is a nationalist political party in Lithuania.

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1905 Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire, some of which was directed at the government.

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1926 Lithuanian coup d'état

The 1926 Lithuanian coup d'état (Lithuanian: 1926-ųjų perversmas) was a military coup d'état in Lithuania that resulted in the replacement of the democratically elected government with a conservative authoritarian government led by Antanas Smetona.

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1940 Soviet ultimatum to Lithuania

The Soviet Union issued an ultimatum to Lithuania before midnight of June 14, 1940.

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1998 Russian financial crisis

The Russian financial crisis (also called Ruble crisis or the Russian Flu) hit Russia on 17 August 1998.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seimas

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