At the beginning of 2000 LFMI started a project "Seimas 2000" which is aimed at stimulating viable and foreseeable reforms by shaping a consistent approach to the creation of election programmes as well as inspiring well-informed public debates and involvement in the political process.

In June LFMI wrote and published a "handbook" for 2000-2004 members of parliament and their voters, entitled in Lithuanian Knyga 2000-2004 Seimo nariams ir rinkėjams. The handbook offers analysis of today's pressing economic and social problems, with an assessment of the policies pursued to date, as well as defines clear and consistent principles for developing workable reform strategies and techniques. Drawing on the proposed principles and direction of reforms, LFMI has worked out an exhaustive action plan that will help the incoming government to take coherent, justified action steps and to ensure the continuity of market reforms. Before the elections, LFMI presented the direction of the proposed reforms as well as recommendations regarding necessary policy decisions to various political parties. After the elections the action plan will be submitted to the new government.

As part of the Seimas 2000 project, LFMI analysed election programmes of the main political parties from the perspective of their consistency, reliability and practicability. This issue of The Free Market presents an assessment of the fundamental provisions of the election programmes as well as forecasts regarding the most likely policy actions and their effects on the country's economy. The analysis covers the platforms of the following parties: A. Brazauskas Social Democratic Coalition, the Centre Union, the Homeland Union - Lithuanian Conservatives, the Liberal Union, the New Union (Social Liberals), and the Peasants Party.