Elections of Members of the Seimas: Some Theoretical and Practical Aspects of the Electoral Right
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Under the Constitution, the Seimas may be elected only in such elections, which are democratic. Democratic elections are the only way to form a legal and legitimate representation of the Nation – the Seimas (Parliament). The democratic character of elections to the Seimas are secured by the constitutional principles of elections to the Seimas. Paragraph 1 of Article 55 of the Constitution provides that the Seimas shall be elected for a four-year term on the basis of universal, equal, and direct suffrage by secret ballot. Namely these constitutional provisions are referred to in the legal literature of Lithuania as electoral principles. Also, the following Seimas’ electoral principles are to be derived from the provisions entrenched in various Articles of the Constitution (Articles 1, 4, 33, 55 and others) as well as from the imperatives of an open, just, and harmonious civil society which are enshrined in the Preamble to the Constitution.
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