As a Latvian, this channel gives me an inferiority complex. Maybe it's the case of the grass is greener on the other side, since I don't live in LT. But man! I didn't realise that Lithuania has so much cool stuff going on. Wwo flags instead of one, it's own clothing brand and now a cool electoral system.

Nice vid 😄. Just one small corection: LSDP, DVL arent small by any means, both invididualy hold more seats than LP or LLS, whilst LSDP itself has the largest number of registered members.

I pay some attention to international politics, mostly within Europe but some outside as well and let me tell you, Lithuanian politics, taking scandals and other nonsense into consideration, look timid in comparison to most other political landscapes out there, which is good. This relatively calm establishment permits stability which furthers the positive change needed to move forward. This relative stability is quite recent though, things have changed massively. 😄

As someone voting for the first time this election, this is actually a huge help. I started doing my own research and quickly found myself hella confused

2:10 Yep, I agree with this "politics in a nutshell", especially with the last one.

It looks like a Mixed-Member Proportional Voting System (MMP). Once you get used to it, it's relatively easy to understand. We have a similar system here in Germany. Half of the parliament is directly elected within the constituencies (first-past-the-post method, so the candidate with the most votes wins the seat), and the other half is elected through proportional voting, so each party gets to send candidates into the parliament as it has proportional votes in the entire country. So if there are 100 seats in total and one party gets 30% of the votes, it can send 30 representatives into the parliament (of course it's a bit more complicated than that, but that's the principle). The only difference seems to be that in Lithuania the halves are completely separated and the proportional votes only count for the second half while in Germany the proportional votes count for the entirety of seats - but I guess that's perhaps a bit too complicated for the start. 😅 This mixed systems avoids pure majority elections like in the US or the UK, which result in very poor proportional representation, but it also avoids the "unpersonal" aspect of pure proportional voting that only operates with country-wide party candidate lists and has no real local representation.

I'm watching this from Poland and finding out that a Polish party in Lithuania would be pro-russian sends a shiver down my spine... and not in a good way 😮‍💨

Great vid, loved it. Can you please make more videos about lithuanian politics? About the upcoming elections and the referendum. Cheers.

Poles in Lithuania really is the weirdest one. Even the name itself is weird as if these people came here from Poland, which is as far from truth as possible.

Good thing about Lithuanian politics is that we don't expect our politicians to do anything and therefore don't take politics too seriously. Unless somebody actually tries to impose some sort of change, which invariably ends up stupid and for the worse; then we complain. Most voters either always vote for the same candidates every time (usually TS-LKD and LSDP voter base), or they vote for the newest populist party that promised the most candy (e.g. Farmers and greens).

Just learned about Lithuania's EAPL-CFA party aligning with the Russian Alliance. While it's a strategic move for minority vote consolidation, I'm wary of any political ties that might lean towards Russian interests, especially in today's geopolitical climate. Thoughts?

Wow, Great Video

Informative stuff Mate! I recently got motivated by your videos, can you please tell me how is the I.T jobs market in Lithuania? & What about the income tax ratio?

1:20 you can see by the color where they stand from left being the most right

Our politics parties have names that does not correspond to their ideology and goals at all. It is very deceiving. Also our politic parties say one things during elections, but do the opposite later, after they have already won the election. And, according to the law, they are not obligated to do that they have promised to the voters during the elections. So NO real democracy in Lithuania. Our politic parties deceive Lithuanian voters, have a nice promisses to voters during the elections, but do what they want after the elections. After the election politic parties do not care and does not collect the feedback from their voters about the governing the state and making decisions. It is rather a parliamentary autocracy in Lithuania. Lithuanian voters have to do their homework and change this situation somehow.

yep more or less right :D, well lit politic is more or less " we do what needed given how word operate at the time" so actually not many parties have freedom to do what it can, but most important thing is all political parties try to do a best it can for peoples not for mega corps and similar stuff , it is funny how kaunas have most corrupt leader you can imagine in lithuania, and kaunas is one of the best city to live and have a lot of changes done from this corrupt leader to make it healthy and beautiful

Generally I tend to agree with your observation, although I would argue that Lithuania doesn't have real liberal parties, at least not in the traditional sense of liberalism. If you would use the Nolan diagram, which uses an axis for personal liberty and another axis for economic liberty, to plot the parties then you'll see that the sector representing parties that value personal and economic liberties equally is empty. As an EU-citizen living in Lithuania I have partial voting rights limited to local and European elections. However for the EU elections I decided to stay registered as a voter in my home country, because I really don't like any of the Lithuanian parties.

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Jobs required in Lithuania for young people?

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there is no such thing as "extreme left" among lithuanian parties, especially when talking about the economics. pretty much all parties could be classified into three categories: 1. neo-liberal america's bootlickers, such as conservatives, liberalų sąjudis and laisvės partija. they have the most power there. economically they are always to the right, while on more cultural issues they can fool you into thinking that they are progressive. they are not. 2. so-called "anti-systemic" populists, who happen to be extremely homophobic and are more pro-russia. in a lot of stances quiet fascistic, they are labeled as "marginals" and "vatniks" by the neo-liberal american bootlicker media, and these populists are indeed bad, but the problem is that anybody who isn't a centre-right america's bootlicker will be labeled as vatniks and marginals, for example the antifa was labeled as a pro-russian group, which is just crazy. 3. those who don't really have a strong coherent position, such as demokratai - vardan lietuvos or the current president nauseda, who is supported by the social democrats which means that a lot of them don't have any coherent position too. well there are also SOME centre-left politicians among social-democrats. and the green party(not farmers) could be described as centre-left. but the centre-left here is a very small minority and i am a far-leftist, for me the so-called centre-leftists are my enemies too, even tho i voted for the greens for the european parlament so the overtone window would atleast moved to the left a little bit. they still lost. in conclusion, lithuanian politics is a circus.

1) TS-LKD are ideologically on the same page as other European conservative centre-right parties. I would not call them with 'liberal values' as they also have high ranking Christian fundamentalists and former neo-Nazis. 2) LS was found guilty for the corruption scandal by the Court of Appeals. They are more traditionalist than the Conservatives - if not for LS and LSDP who lied about their support for the civil unions during the election, we would have them. 3) LP 'lack of competence on certain issues' is just a myth spread by opponents. They are a full flavour liberal party. The civilian service has always been an option for draftees. 4) DPVL is a mysterious party mostly about nothing, usually calling their values as 'democratic' - without being clear on what do they mean. Sounds populist to me. 5) Marxist roots are just retconning with the interbellum LSDP - well it at least has more sense that LVŽS claiming being successors of 1920s progressive LVLS. 6) LLRA detests mainstream Lithuanian right-wing camp, and the only occasions they have been in power, they did it with the LSDP/LVŽS government.

video seems pretty unfair to LSDP, and downplays influence of conservative wing of Homeland Union. But overall pretty ok introduction.