Long-term residents have had the right to vote and stand in local elections since June 2002. Electoral rights score second best in the EU-10, after HU, and would attain best practice if all legal residents of five years or less - and not just long-term residents - could vote. Lithuania grants migrants the least political rights of all MIPEX countries, in joint bottom position with five other countries. Only Lithuanian nationals can form a political organisation or join a political party. Migrants in Lithuania (as in GR, HU, PL and SK) have no access to consultative bodies or implementation policies, which are critical weaknesses for political participation. The authorities do not have any bodies for consulting migrants on policies. The state does not actively inform migrants of their political rights or in practice provide public funding to their associations.
