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Thursday, 25.04.2024, 01:07
Municipal elections in Lithuania proposed to take place on 1 March, 2015
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Followed provisions of the Constitution and the Law on Elections to Municipal Councils, Parliament Speaker Loreta Grauziniene registered a draft resolution Regarding 2015 Elections to Municipal Councils.
The aforementioned law stipulates that, "Elections to municipal councils shall be announced by the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania no later than five months prior to the expiration of the powers of the incumbent municipal councillors. If four months prior to the expiration of the powers of the incumbent municipal councillors the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania fails to announce the date of elections to municipal councils, elections to municipal councils shall be held on the last Sunday coming at least one month prior to the expiration of the powers of the incumbent municipal councillors.
Elections to municipal councils shall be held no earlier than two months and no later than one month prior to the expiration of the powers of the incumbent municipal councillors".
Next year direct mayoral elections will take place. Based on the law, councillors and mayors are elected without intermediates.
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