Municipalities (part 1)

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Municipaties in Lithuania (each municipality is represented by its coat of arms) (source: http://www.ngw.nl/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=File:Lithuania_municipalities_COA_map.jpg)

Basics


In Lithuania there are 59 municipalities. These bodies are administrated by the munipacility's council (led by the mayor) and administration (led by the director).

Council basically is observing municipality's agencies and etc., while municipality's administration is preparing evidence for council's meetings, preparing municipality's bugdet and etc.

Municipality councils have one meeting each month (if necessary - two meetings if e. g. there is need to appoint interim mayor).

'Size Matters'


Size of municipality's council depends from number of the people living in the municipality. By the Local self-government election law (version of this law in Lithuanian language) size of the municipality varies as following:

number of elected councilors - number of registered citizens in municipality

  • 15 councilors - fewer than 5000 registered citizens
  • 17 councilors - between 5000 and 10 000 registered citizens
  • 21  councilor - between 10 000 and 20 000 registered citizens
  • 25 councilors - between 20 000 and 50 000 registered citizens
  • 27 councilors - between 50 000 and 100 000 registered citizens
  • 31 councilor - between 100 000 and 300 000 registered citizens
  • 41 councilor - between 300 000 and 500 000 registered citizens
  • 51 councilor - more than 500 000 registered citizens

Size have financial effects on councillors - the smaller is number of the people living in the municipality, so less extra payment (for each councillor) or salary (for mayor) it gets. Also when number of the people living in the municipality, less seats in incoming municipalities elections council will have.

How to become municipality's council member ?


Unlike United Kingdom's local councils/authorities, Lithuania's municipality council members are elected by proportional system, except mayor. In this electoral system municipality's council elected in the begining of the term might be different by its composition from the one, which be by the end of the term.
These changes could be caused by sitting council member's death, election to the other office (European Parliament, national parliament (Seimas), president, government or mayor), resignation due to various reasons (charges for criminal activity, seekage for more time with family and etc.).

How to become municipality's mayor ?


Širvintai district's mayor Živilė Pinskuvienė with mayor's insignia in 2015 (source: http://www.sirvinta.net/wp-content/uploads/inau1.jpg).

Exceptional place in municipality's council belongs to mayor. He/she is (as a mayor) municipality's representative in Lithuania and beyond. As political figure mayor is proposer of municipality's development plan and coalition's (if no party in council doesn't have majority seats) formateur.

As municipality's member he/she proposes laws and releases it's own orders. Final position is council's chairman in which he/she chairs council's meeting, proposes council's meeting plan.

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Outcome of Marijampolė mayoral election (round 1) As I expected , Irena Lunskienė ( Lietuvos socialdemokratų partija  -  LSDP  ( Social Democratic Party of Lithuania )) came first with 48,07 per cent of vote .  Another prognosis I will stay flat - Irena Lunskienė ( Lietuvos socialdemokratų partija  -  LSDP  ( Social Democratic Party of Lithuania )) will win these mayoral election. Probable share of of vote: Irena Lunskienė ( Lietuvos socialdemokratų partija  -  LSDP  ( Social Democratic Party of Lithuania )) - two thirds of the vote (or more). Kęstutis Traškevičius ( Tėvynės sąjunga-Lietuvos krikščionys demokratai  -  TS-LKD  ( Homeland Union - Christian Democrats of Lithuania )) - one third of the vote (or less).
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Motivation I was inspired by  Peter-Paul Koch  who established website of the Netherlands politics in English. This blog will be concentrated on national politics in Lithuania. Local (municipalities) politics will be also featured, if events there will influence national affairs and/or local (municipality's) politician will be leader of national party. Local (municipalities) politics coverage has one difficulty - Lithuania has 59 municipalities so writing about each of them might not be an option ( this may be straight way to the blog's split as Owan Donowan has shown ). Political system of Lithuania (source:  http://www.truelithuania.com/Nuotraukos/LithuaniaGovernmentScheme.jpg ) Structure This blog will have these type of posts: 1) presentations These presentations will come up to specific matters (e. g. elections in one particular municipality). 2) yearly round-ups Round-ups will be released in autumn. Basic rules (for ...
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Opinion polls

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Companies In Lithuania there are four companies, which are conducting opinion polls. These companies are: Vilmorus Baltijos tyrimai Spinter tyrimai RAIT Each company is in partnership with media groups. These media are: Lietuvos rytas ELTA Delfi Baltic News Service   These companies are taking samples from 1000 respondents (or more), so polls might more reliable than those, which were collected in Austria ( most polls there have 600-700 respondents on average ). 'True' opinion of respondents Most of the respondents are talking about what they really think (in most cases, they put one party in the first place, because that party was put in that position by the media outlets). Simply saying, majority of the respondents do not want to look like losers by their choice. One example might be recorded in October 2016, when Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union won most seats in 2016-2020 Seimas. Opinion polls is shown below ⇩ (source: http://www.l...
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