With the Ministry of Environment remaining without a head for more than three months now, the opposition Social Democratic Seimas group is proposing to legally bind the prime minister to find a minister in 15 days. This has also received support from the Conservatives, however PM Saulius Skvernelis has described the proposal as anti-constitutional. […]
In the last 2 years, the number of Lithuanian MPs who declare with which interest groups or lobbyists they meet has doubled. Last year, parliamentarians also announced 1,5 times more meetings than in 2017. These figures are reported in research conducted by Transparency International Lithuania, which includes information from manosusitikimai.lt, official work calendars, and personal websites of the parliamentarians. […]
The Ministry of Economy and Innovations has registered a legislative package, which specifies that the state could take land belonging to individuals if a large investor needs it. Seimas jurists note that this could clash with the Constitution. […]
Politics does not stand in place, change is a near constant even if the changes are often insignificant. New political parties emerge, draw voters for a few years and then vanish. The Way of Courage, the National Revival Party, A. Paulauskas’ New Union, the Modern Christian Democrat Union, the Lithuanian Freedom Union, the Labour Party, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Labour Party – this is only part of the political parties, which formed after the re-establishment of independence, most forming after the year 2000. […]
Lithuanian children adopted by foreigners will be able to keep their Lithuanian citizenship after the country’s parliament adopted necessary amendments. […]
With the heads of the Interior Ministry and Police Department boasting that the police reform initiated several years ago has met expectations, representatives of police labour unions point to issues in the reform, Lietuvos Žinios […]
The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party has expressed support to the 2018 budget draft, regardless of a decision to pull out of the ruling coalition. […]
Lithuania never received a Turkish request for legal assistance on user of ByLock app and did not provide any data, says Julius Sabatauskas, chairman of the parliamentary Committee for Legal Affairs. […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s Committee for Legal Affairs is working to establish whether Lithuania could have provided Turkey with information about uses of ByLock chat app. Ankara maintains the app had been developed specifically for mobilization of coup supporters, and having it on a mobile was a sufficient reason for arrests. […]
Gintautas Paluckas, the leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, will try to persuade the party’s rebellious members to reconsider their position and obey the party’s decision to avoid expulsion from the organization over signing an agreement with the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union. […]
Lithuanian parliamentarians intend to turn to the Constitutional Court for yet another interpretation of the possibility to expand the institute of dual citizenship. […]
A part of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union are waiting for the election ending for their Social Democratic coalition partners. The negotiations regarding a coalition were with the previous leader Algirdas Butkevičius. Some of […]
Mindaugas Sinkevičius, Zigmantas Balčytis and Gintautas Paluckas are the three Social Democrats who, according to experts, are the most likely to take leadership of the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP). However the SocDems would likely […]
Yet another term in the office of Central Electoral Commission (VRK) chairman is concluding for Zenonas Vaigauskas. The government majority tells LRT.lt they wish to see a new leader of the VRK, but Vaigauskas himself […]
Lithuanian MPs Julius Sabatauskas and Andrius Palionis on Friday announced plans of running for leadership of the ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party. […]
Facing a leadership crisis and internal bickering, the members of the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) have snapped – the decision to join a coalition with Ramūnas Karbauskis’ “Peasants” is being described as a mistake […]
The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) proposes Milda Vainiutė, a law professor at the Mykolas Romeris University, for the post of justice minister in the new coalition government, outgoing Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Wednesday. […]
Lithuania’s new government may be sworn in next Tuesday without a permanent justice minister if the Social Democrats fail to find a suitable candidate for the post, Prime Minister-designate Saulius Skvernelis said on Wednesday. […]
Lithuanian delegate to the European Commission, Social Democrat Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis says that the Social Democrat party is in a deep crisis after the elections. He is critical of the choice of ministries by the party and says that the Social Democrats should focus on the ministries of social security, education and healthcare. […]
Lithuania’s outgoing Social Democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that he has discussed several potential candidates for justice minister with Prime Minister-designate Saulius Skvernelis and expects to name the party’s nominee for the post on Monday. […]
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