Lithuanian presidential election, 2009
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A presidential election was held in Lithuania
on 17 May 2009. A run-off election would have been held on 7 June 2009 had one been necessary. European Commissioner
Dalia Grybauskaitė
was elected with 69 percent of the valid vote and took office on 12 July as the country's first female president.
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
on 17 May 2009. A run-off election would have been held on 7 June 2009 had one been necessary. European Commissioner
European Commissioner
A European Commissioner is a member of the 27-member European Commission. Each Member within the college holds a specific portfolio and are led by the President of the European Commission...
Dalia Grybauskaitė
Dalia Grybauskaitė
Dalia Grybauskaitė is the current President of Lithuania, inaugurated on 12 July 2009. She had previously been Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Finance Minister, and European Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget...
was elected with 69 percent of the valid vote and took office on 12 July as the country's first female president.
Candidates to participate
The Electoral Commission registered 14 candidates for participation in the presidential election. Candidates who dropped out of election before the start.- Speaker of the SeimasSeimasThe Seimas is the unicameral 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 , and the other half are elected by nationwide vote according to proportional representation...
Arūnas ValinskasArunas ValinskasArūnas Valinskas is a Lithuanian politician. He was speaker of the Seimas...
(National Resurrection PartyNational Resurrection PartyNational Resurrection Party was a centre-right political party in Lithuania. Founded in 2008, the party merged into the Liberal and Centre Union in 2011...
) (refused) - Algirdas Pilvelis (did not collect the needed minimum number of signatures)
- Algimantas Matulevičius (did not collect the minimum needed number of signatures)
- Zigmas VaišvilaZigmas VaišvilaZigmas Vaišvila is a Lithuanian politician. In 1990 he was among those who signed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.-References:* *...
(did not collect the minimum needed number of signatures) - Vidmantas Sadauskas (did not collect the minimum needed number of signatures)
- Vytautas Kundrotas (did not collect the minimum needed number of signatures)
- Jonas Jankauskas (did not collect the minimum needed number of signatures)
- Vladimir RomanovVladimir RomanovVladimir Nikolayevich Romanov ; born 1947 in Tver Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR) is an ethnic Russian businessman who also holds Lithuanian citizenship following that country's independence from the Soviet Union. He is chairman of UBIG Investments which is the majority shareholder in Scottish Premier...
- application rejected.
Candidates for election
Candidates confirmed for election with more than 20 thousands signatures.- Dalia GrybauskaitėDalia GrybauskaitėDalia Grybauskaitė is the current President of Lithuania, inaugurated on 12 July 2009. She had previously been Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Finance Minister, and European Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget...
- Valentinas Mazuronis (Order and Justice)
- Kazimiera Danutė Prunskienė (Former prime minister)
- Česlovas Jazerskas
- Waldemar Tomaszewski (Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania)
- Loreta Graužinienė (Labour PartyLabour Party (Lithuania)The Labour Party , or DP, is a centrist political party in Lithuania. It was founded in 2003 by the Russian-born millionaire Viktor Uspaskich....
) - Algirdas ButkevičiusAlgirdas ButkevičiusAlgirdas Butkevičius is a Lithuanian politician. He was the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania's candidate at the Lithuanian presidential election, 2009, coming in the second place with 11.83% of the votes. In 1996 and 2000, he was elected to the Seimas...
(Social Democratic Party of LithuaniaSocial Democratic Party of LithuaniaThe Social Democratic Party of Lithuania is a centre-left and social democratic political party in Lithuania. It is the oldest party in Lithuania, founded in 1896. The party's president since 2009 is Algirdas Butkevičius. The party led a minority government in the unicameral Seimas, Lithuania's...
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