Paksas finished second in the first round of the presidential election on 22 December, with 19.7%: qualifying him for a run-off against incumbent President Valdas Adamkus.

[1] For the run-off, Paksas represented a youthful alternative to the ageing candidate, adopting the slogan 'Vote for Change';[12] despite all the parties except the LDP backing Adamkus, he won across almost all of the country, with 54.7%.

[1] The campaign was likened to the previous spring's French presidential election and Paksas to Jean-Marie Le Pen for his populism.

[1] However, unlike Le Pen, the Paksas immediately announced his support for Lithuania's ongoing process of accession to the European Union and NATO.

[1] In June, 2003, Paksas set about fighting political corruption that saw 700 public officials under the old administration acquire land illegally.

[14] The Constitutional Court found that Paksas shall be precluded for life from being elected as president, as a member of the Seimas and some other high-ranking official positions.

Paksas complained against the lifetime duration of the impeachment and filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg).

Whilst his nomination was initially accepted, it was then thrown out by the Constitutional Court, leaving the LDP without a nominee in the election.

[14] The member of the European Parliament from the Lithuanian Liberal Democratic party was Rolandas Pavilionis, a former rector of Vilnius University.

[6] This minor increase was attributed to the rise of the National Resurrection Party, which shared the same electorate as the Order and Justice.

The dramatic doubling of the centre-right's share of seats allowed them to form a government: including three parties, but not the Order and Justice.

In May 2012, ahead of the October 2012 election, Order and Justice signed a pact with the Labour and the Social Democrats to cooperate in any post-election negotiations.

By the summer of 2018, negotiations started between Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, Social Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania and the Order and Justice considering possible cooperation between them.

[17] On June 7, 2019, Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Alliance council agreed that party should join these talks,[18] which were concluded on July 5, 2019.