Lithuania’s Social Democrats, the Peasant and Green Union, and Conservatives top the country’s popularity polls, shows he latest survey conducted for delfi.lt news portal. […]
A 48.9-year-old Lithuanian man with a university degree who has declared 165,927 euros worth of property and has run for elections in the past – this is the profile of a statistical candidate for parliament published by Lithuania’s Central Electoral Commission. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that a “putsch” was plotted against him while he was away on holiday in January. […]
Artūras Zuokas, the leader of the opposition in the Vilnius city council, has called for an investigation into malfeasance by ministers of finance in Lithuania. […]
The opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democratic announced that the party’s leader Gabrielius Landsbergis would be the prime minister, if the party is involved in formation of the government after the upcoming elections. […]
The United Kingdom’s audiovisual media regulator OFCOM has established violations in a broadcast of NTV Mir Lithuania. […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s biggest opposition group, Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives), has collected signatures for initiation of the interpellation procedure against Social Democratic Minister of Defence Juozas Olekas. […]
Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives), the largest opposition political group at the Lithuanian parliament, has collected signatures of 31 MPs in support of interpellation against Agriculture Minister Virginija Baltraitienė. […]
The leader of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement, Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius, has been summoned for questioning by the Special Investigation Service. […]
Lithuania’s parliament will on Saturday discuss President Dalia Grybauskaitė veto on the new Labour Code that is meant to liberalize relations between employers and employees. Under the Seimas statute, MPs should decide during the meeting whether the law should be discussed again or scrapped. […]
Winds of tolerance and human rights appear to be blowing in the run up to the Seimas elections. A highlight of a Tuesday discussion at the Loftas venue, organised by the initiative “Žinau, ką renku” (I know who I’m voting for), was Seimas candidate responses to the question of LGBT rights, with the conservative leader Gabrielius Landsbergis delivering the biggest surprise with his statement in support of same-sex partnership, something his party has vehemently opposed. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has reiterated his position that the parliament should overturn President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s veto of the new Labour Code and adopt a little improved bill by the end of the current parliamentary term. […]
The defense tactic used by Eligijus Masiulis, the Lithuanian Liberal Movement‘s former leader who is suspected of bribery, is unlikely to convince Liberal voters and help the party regain their trust, a political analyst said. […]
Leaders of Lithuania’s opposition conservative and Liberal parties, Gabrielius Landsbergis and Remigijus Šimašius, on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius of the ruling Social Democrats to check whether he still had the parliament’s confidence. […]
The political career of Eligijus Masiulis, the Lithuanian Liberal Movement’s former leader suspected of bribery, is over, Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius, the party’s current leader, said on Wednesday. […]
Lithuania’s Culture Minister Šarūnas Birutis of the Labour Party had a clash of interests by failing to declare links with the Bulgarian-registered company Agrolitas, the Chief Official Ethics Commission has found. […]
A loan or repayment of loans is the most frequent defence in corruption crimes, says Saulius Urbanavičius, the head of Lithuania’s Special Investigation Service conducting probes of political corruption. […]
Eligijus Masiulis, a former MP and leader of the Liberal Movement who has been under investigation for alleged influence peddling and bribe taking, has presented his version of events. He insists that the money that investigators found in his home, the suspected bribe, was a personal loan extended to him by Raimondas Kurlianskis, vice-president of the business group MG Baltic. […]
Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas must step down because of the scandal over the army’s overpriced purchases that discredits not only the national defence system, but also the state and the Social Democratic Party, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Tuesday. […]
The Lithuanian parliament will make decisions on the new Labour Code and several other laws vetoed by President Dalia Grybauskaitė during its last session that starts this Saturday. […]
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