The working group proposed to increase the number of constituencies in Vilnius to two, and decrease the number of constituencies by one in Kaunas and Šiauliai.

The projects prepared by the working group envisage the separation of 5 districts from the Širvintai-Vilnius constituency, i.e. Buivydžiai, Pabradė, Glitiškės, Visalaukės, Pikeliškės. The districts would be added to the Molėtai-Švenčionys constituency. The districts of Gerviškės, Trybonys, Sėlai, Čiužakampiai and Baltoji Vokė would be separated from Vilnius-Šalčininkai constituency and added to Varėna-Eišiškės constituency.

The meeting of CEC was accompanied by a heated discussion. The proposed changes caused a lot of controversy, as particular proposals of the working group are against the European standards.
The reason of the changes is the will to equalize the number of voters in particular constituencies. But as Valdemar Urban, the EAPL representative in the CEC, stressed, by complying with the OSCE requirements and equalizing the number of voters in single-member constituencies by introducing numerical values in the range from 0.9 to 1.1 of the average number of voters in a constituency (currently, the value of the size of electoral constituencies in Lithuania is 0,8% (min) and 1,2% (max) – L24.lt), other notices of international experts are forgot, particularly, that the decisions regarding the change of county borders cannot artificially separate the electorate of national minorities and cannot worsen the situation of national minorities.'
We would like to note, that a meeting of EAPL with the representatives of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODHIR) took place before the elections to the Seimas in 2012. During the meeting the guests stated that the decisions regarding the change of boundaries, which can affect national minorities, must be taken with the agreement of the representatives of national minorities. In other words, these decisions cannot distract Polish voters nor have a negative influence on national minorities. Such conclusions were one more time repeated in the OSCE report on the autumn elections to the Seimas in Lithuania and during the meeting of the OSCE representatives and the members of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania (June 2013).

The proposals of the working group were constructively criticized by the EAPL representative. He logically justified his position and presented simple and fair solution.
'I propose that we create two standalone electoral constituencies in the Vilnius district (today there are no constituencies there at all, while the territory of Vilnius district is split between four constituencies ) and one standalone constituency in Šalčininkai district,' V. Urban said.

According to the information of L24.lt, 16 CEC members took part in yesterday's meeting. The initial proposal of the working group was supported by 15 members, one voted against.