Seimas

The Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania (Lithuanian: [Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)), or simply the Seimas, is the unicameral parliament of Lithuania.

Seimas
Type
Type	Unicameral
History
Founded	22 August 1922
Disbanded	suspended from 1940–1991
Leadership
Speaker	Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, LRLS since 13 November 2020
First Deputy Speaker	Jurgis Razma, TS-LKD since 13 November 2020
Deputy Speakers	Andrius Mazuronis, DP since 13 November 2020
	Vytautas Mitalas, LP since 17 November 2020
	Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė, TS-LKD since 17 November 2020
	Julius Sabatauskas, LSDP since 17 November 2020
	Paulius Saudargas, TS-LKD since 17 November 2020
Leader of the Opposition	TBD
Structure
Seats	141
Political groups	Government (73) <span class="legend-color" style="background-color:; color:;border:1px solid darkgray;">  Homeland Union (50)   Liberal Movement (12)   Freedom Party (11) Opposition (55)   Farmers and Greens Union (32)   Social Democrats (13)   Labour Party (10) Non-affiliated (13)   Mixed group (13) <span class="legend-color" style="background-color:; color:;border:1px solid darkgrey;">  Electoral Action of Poles (3)   Social Democratic Labour (3)   Freedom and Justice (1)   Green Party (1)   Independents (5)
Elections
Voting system	Proportional voting with a 5% election threshold for 70 proportional seats (7% for coalitions) and run-off voting for 71 single-member constituency seats
Last election	11 and 25 October 2020
Meeting place
Seimas Palace, Vilnius
Website
www.lrs.lt

The Seimas either approves or rejects the candidate for the Prime Minister nominated by the President.

Its 141 members are elected for a four-year term.

Seimas Media

• Polish Sejm under the reign of Sigismund III Vasa (5793484).jpg

  Sejm session at the Royal Castle, Warsaw, 1622

• The Constituent Assembly Palace (Kaunas).jpg

  The location of the Constituent Assembly of Lithuania in Kaunas (interwar period)

• Second Seimas of Lithuania opening meeting.jpg

  The Second Seimas in 1923

• Landsbergis, Vytautas-0085.jpg

  Vytautas Landsbergis was the Chairman of the Supreme Council of Lithuania

• KlpUniversitetasVlns90-10-5.jpg

  Vytautas Landsbergis near the primary doors of the Seimas Palace with the recently added Vytis above them, in 1990.

• Saulius Skvernelis VRK.jpg

  Saulius Skvernelis is the current Speaker of the Seimas.