Court to rule on Nemunas Dawn funding case on December 9
Wednesday 11th November 2026 on 13:45 in
Lithuania
Lithuania’s Supreme Administrative Court will announce its decision on December 9 in appeals by the Nemunas Dawn party and several associated people and companies against a finding of serious campaign-finance violations, LRT reported.
The court heard the appeals on Wednesday. The case challenges an August decision by the Central Electoral Commission, which found that the party and its leader, parliamentarian Remigijus Žemaitaitis, had seriously breached the law by accepting money from prohibited funding sources.
The appeals were filed by the party, Žemaitaitis, parliamentarians Lina Šukytė-Korsakė and Robertas Puchovičius, Eva Puchovič and Edvardas Puchovičius, and companies Tvari statyba and Lajota. The politicians did not attend the hearing.
Party lawyer Vaidotas Sviderskis argued that the party had received donations from individuals and could not establish where those people had obtained the money. He said the commission’s decision, which identified breaches of political campaign funding rules, was therefore unjustified.
Lawyer Povilas Gruodis, representing Puchovičius and the two companies, said Puchovičius had the right to transfer money to the party. He argued that the commission had overlooked the fact that Puchovičius, rather than the companies, made the transfers, after first putting money into the businesses. The commission’s representative, Ilona Bondzinskaitė, urged the court to reject the appeals, saying evidence showed company money had passed through Puchovičius into the party’s account.
The commission found that the party’s 2024 parliamentary election campaign received 24,200 euros through Puchovičius, who is the sole shareholder of Tvari statyba and Lajota. It also found that 4,500 euros from Tvari statyba had been channelled through him to finance Žemaitaitis’s presidential campaign.
The commission further said the party had accepted and used 4,300 euros in membership fees paid through third parties, some of which came from company funds. It concluded that the party’s use of company donations and intermediaries in the 2024 parliamentary campaign breached the Electoral Code.