Seimas

Seimas is the Lithuanian parliament. It has 141 members that are elected for a four-year term. About half of the members of this legislative body are elected in individual constituencies (71), and the other half (70) are elected by nationwide vote according to proportional representation. A party must receive at least 5% and a union of few parties at least 7% of the national vote to be represented in the Seimas.

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• Politics of Lithuania
• Sejm is the name of the lower house of the parliament in Poland
• Sejm of the Polish-Lithianian Commonwealth
• Saeima is the name of the parliament in Latvia.

Lithuania: The Republic of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuva; full - Lietuvos Respublika) is a republic in northeastern Europe. One of the three Baltic States along the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland to the south, and the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia to th...

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