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2013 05 03

Lithuanian parties are founding foreign offices to win the expat vote

Responding to growing Lithuanian expat communities abroad, Lithuania's political parties are founding foreign offices in all the popular emigration destinations, Lietuvos Žinios daily reports.
Liberal Movement
Liberal Movement / Andriaus Vaitkevičiaus/15min.lt nuotr.

The Liberal Movement has offices in five countries around the globe, i.e., in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, and the United States. The party's executive secretary Raimondas Imbrasas said the party is in the process of establishing one more office in Australia. In his words, parties feel the benefits of foreign bureaus during elections.

The biggest opposition party, the Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats (Conservatives), has bureaus in Germany and Brussels. The party's executive secretary Raimundas Alekna said the Conservatives had informal offices in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Gediminas Kirkilas, the head of the information center of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, said the party had bureaus in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States, with one more to be established in Spain. The ruling Labor Party has offices in Chicago and London and plans to open new ones in Ireland and Australia. Meanwhile, the ruling Order and Justice Party has no foreign office yet.

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