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In Lithuania, a public election committee (Lithuanian: visuomeninis rinkimų komitetas) is an organized group of voters outside of political parties which participates in local or European Parliament elections.[1]
In 2023, 11 mayors (of 60) and 183 municipal council members (of 1498) were elected from public election committees. 4 of Lithuania's 5 largest cities elected a mayor belonging to a committee. The strongest committee is Vieningas Kaunas, led by Visvaldas Matijošaitis, which has won local elections in Kaunas, Lithuania's second largest city, since the introduction of committees in 2015.[2] Committees also participated in the 2019 European Parliament election in Lithuania, in which one of the seats was won by a public election committee led by Aušra Maldeikienė.[3]
The prominence of public election committees has been described as the result of an ongoing crisis of confidence in political parties in Lithuania.[4][5]
- ^ "LIETUVOS RESPUBLIKOS SAVIVALDYBIŲ TARYBŲ RINKIMŲ ĮSTATYMO NR. I-532 35 STRAIPSNIO PAKEITIMO ĮSTATYMAS". LR Seimas (in Lithuanian). 2014.
- ^ "2023 m. kovo 19 d. savivaldybių tarybų ir merų rinkimai". Central Electoral Commission of Lithuania (in Lithuanian). 24 March 2023.
- ^ "Išrinkti Europos Parlamento nariai". Central Electoral Commission of Lithuania (in Lithuanian). 3 June 2019.
- ^ "Kokias rizikas kuria rinkimų komitetai?". Transparency International Lithuania (in Lithuanian). 10 January 2019.
- ^ Gailiūnas, Paulius (2019). "Visuomeninių rinkimų komitetų statuso pagrindai Lietuvos Respublikoje" (in Lithuanian). Vilnius University.