Bernadras Gailius / lzinios.lt The presidential elections are highlighting a new quality political reality of Lithuania, where people are divided into supporters of oligarchy and democracy, instead of conservatives, social democrats and liberals, as it […]
On Monday, the composition of municipal councils is beginning to emerge. […]
The Conservatives have been offered to use Antanas Guoga as a black horse in the elections, establish links to Naglis Puteikis and Kristupas Krivickas‘ party and non-publically back Remigijus Šimašius and Aušrinė Armonaitė. Such measures […]
The owner of the so-called “Vijūnėlė estate”, a large house in the spa resort of Druskininkai, southern Lithuania, has turned to the European Court of Human Rights, Druskininkai Mayor Ričardas Malinauskas says. […]
Let us grant the prime minister’s Russia policy some content. Some may ask, what content? The public wants to hear that Lithuania must maintain especially good relations with its neighbours and particularly if you don’t […]
The Lithuanian Interior Ministry says that there is a legal basis for introducing direct rule by the central government in the southern spa resort of Druskininkai, but doubts if it would be a proportionate administrative measure. […]
Representatives of movements based in Druskininkai, Alytus and Lazdijai founded an association For Lithuania on Friday, electing former basketball coach Tomas Pačėsas as its leader. […]
The Lithuanian Social Democratic Labour Party will hold its constituent assembly on March 24. […]
MPs who have withdrawn from the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP), who have spoken of the creation of a new organisation, state that it will be done at “the politically most convenient time.” The former […]
A representative of the statutory class at the top of the political pyramid is an exceptionally bad thing, thus seeing Saulius Skvernelis in the Prime Minister‘s chair would be a great mistake. Thus observes Vytautas […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that a “putsch” was plotted against him while he was away on holiday in January. […]
A bit more than four months are left until the Lithuanian parliamentary elections. Recent scandals have rocked the Liberal Movement party’s support, but nearly all parties have recently experienced scandals or missteps that have cast […]
The Lithuanian cabinet of ministers is to decide whether to call off a controversial decree on zoning requirements in resort areas. The decree, which was adopted by the government last September, lifted construction restrictions in […]
Druskininkai Mayor Ričardas Malinauskas and former members of the Druskininkai branch of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party are forming a new movement. […]
The ruling Social Democratic Party, which had until recently enjoyed unwavering popularity with voters, has found itself on a shaky ground recently. Political analysts say it is because the party’s leader, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, has failed to control controversial situations as he should. […]
After a more than four-hour-long meeting with the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party’s branch in Druskininkai, Julius Sabatauskas, the chairman of the party’s transparency group and the party chairman’s deputy, confirmed that the party had lost […]
Lithuanian Environment Minister Kęstutis Trečiokas remains in his post after the parliament voted on Tuesday his answers to corruption suspicions were satisfactory. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has asked the Constitutional Court to look into a government decree that she believes could have been adopted in breach of the Constitution. The decree on lifting zoning requirements in resorts has raised suspicions about clashing interests and almost cost the environment minister his post. […]
The Chief Official Ethics Commission (VTEK) is looking into investigation evidence, handed to it by prosecutors, to see whether Environment Minister Kęstutis Trečiokas deserve to be sanctioned by ethics watchdogs. […]
Environment Minister Kęstutis Trečiokas, who has been at the centre of a controversy over construction in Druskininkai and the resulting stand-off between Lithuania’s president and prime minister, is meeting his party’s leadership on Monday to discuss his future in the post. […]
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