29. What are the eligibility criteria for political parties to receive public funding?

Law on political parties (2004, last amended 2021), Article 21

Article 21.1: Political parties, which are registered in the Register of Legal Entities in accordance with the procedure laid down by the law and which satisfy statutory requirements regarding the number of political party members and the reform or liquidation procedure has not been initiated in respect of them, shall be entitled to state budget appropriations to fund activities of the political party.

Article 21.2: State budget appropriations designated for funding activities of the political party shall be allocated to those political parties satisfying the criteria set out in the Article 21.1 which received not less than 2 per cent of all the votes cast by the voters for the candidates of the political parties in those elections to the Seimas, municipal councils, the European Parliament according to the results of which these state budget appropriations are allocated.

Article 21.6: If, after elections to the parliament, a new political party is registered which satisfies the criteria set out in the Article 21.1 is a parliamentary party, its activities shall be financed from the state budget appropriations equal to the lowest state budget appropriations designated to parliamentary party  in the previous calendar year multiplied by the ratio of the number of members of the parliamentary group of new parliamentary party and of the the number of members of parliamentary group of the least-funded parliamentary party.