Voting centers open for the first round of parliamentary elections in Lithuania

MADRID 13 Oct. () –

This Sunday at 7:00 a.m. (local time) the polling stations opened for the first round of the parliamentary elections in Lithuania, held in a context in which social unrest could end up leading to the defeat of the conservative Government of the Union of the Fatherland .

In total, 1,947 centers have been set up for the nearly 2,380,000 people who will elect the new Lithuanian Parliament (Seimas) to exercise their right to vote for the next four years.

This October 13 is the first round of a double-round system, with October 27 as the date on which the 141 deputies of the chamber will be known. In these elections, 71 seats are voted in single-member constituencies, while the remaining 70 are elected in a single national constituency, with a minimum threshold of five percent, in an open list system.