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The Seimas (literally "family") 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.
Latest election
The word "Seimas" is etymologically related to the Polish word Sejm, the name of the lower house of the parliament in Poland, and to the the Latvian word Saeima, which is the name of the Latvian parliament.
Seimas Palace
Seimas Palace was designed by architects Algimantas and Vytautas Nasvytis and Robertas Stasėnas Tomas Venclova. Vilnius. R. Paknys Publishing House, Vilnius, 2002, p. 191..
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See also:
- Politics of Lithuania
- Sejm of the Polish-Lithianian Commonwealth
- People's Parliament, the defunct Soviet parliament.
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