Rolandas Paksas, the leader of the Order and Justice party, rejects rumours that he might be stepping down from the party’s helm. As Paksas himself cannot run for parliament in the general elections this October, speculations continue on who will lead the party’s list. […]
The ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party continues to top popularity rankings, despite recent stories of suspected corruption among its ranks, shows a poll commissioned by DELFI. […]
The leadership of Lithuania’s Labour Party met to smooth over reported disagreements in its ranks after the parliament speaker’s statements gave rise to speculations about her possible withdrawal. […]
The opposition at the Lithuanian parliament have collected enough MPs’ signatures to initiate an extraordinary Seimas session. They are planning to present the call to the Seimas speaker on Friday. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė is fuelling political crises in the country instead of seeking stability and balance, says European Commissioner Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, the honorary chairman of the Social Democratic Party. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has appointed a task group to draft a bill on dual citizenship so that the issue could be put to a vote in a planned referendum this year. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius was questioned by Special Investigation Service (STT) officers investigating construction fraud in Druskininkai. […]
Lithuania‘s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed a decree to dismiss Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė, a social democrat, from the post of healthcare minister. […]
The prime minister has to take responsibility for corruption scandals that have rattled his cabinet in recent months, said Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė after meeting with PM Algirdas Butkevičius on Wednesday morning. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius will suggest that Druskininkai Mayor Ričardas Malinauskas, a fellow social democrat, suspend his membership in the party while investigators probe his suspected involvement in a shady construction project. However, Butkevičius does not believe that Malinauskas should resign from the mayor’s post. […]
It took almost 10 years for a court’s decision regarding the Labour Party‘s fraudulent bookkeeping in 2004-2006 to come into effect. However, the Vilnius circuit court’s altered decision regarding the sentence for Viktor Uspaskich, the party’s disgraced founder, raised a storm of commentary. Few seem to have expected the appeal court’s decision. How could it be that the accused got away with a tiny fine when they had been working to hide millions? […]
Lithuania’s Social Democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has filed a defamation suit against conservative member of parliament Agnė Bilotaitė. […]
Agriculture Minister Virginija Baltraitienė has accepted resignation of her deputy Vilius Martusevičius over alleged corruption in the ministry’s food for poor programme. […]
Mayor of Druskininkai Ričardas Malinauskas has admitted giving money to contractors who were working on a property that has been the subject of an anti-corruption investigation. He still denies that he is the owner of the property, insisting he was only mediating. […]
Mayor of Druskininkai Ričardas Malinauskas has been questioned by investigators who are probing allegedly questionable motives behind a government decree legalizing construction in the southern Lithuanian resort town. […]
Minister of Agriculture Virginija Baltraitienė might have to explain herself to official ethics watchdogs after it has emerged that the ministry’s food for poor programme awarded a government contract to a company linked to the minister’s party colleague Viktor Uspaskich. […]
A group wants to collect 50,000 signatures under a petition which would force parliament to reconsider refugee resettlement in Lithuania. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is somewhat sceptical about the so-called new social model, a package of reforms to the labour code and the country’s welfare system. […]
The Lithuanian branch of Transparency International (TILS), an international anti-corruption watchdog, has proposed a range of new measures to make Lithuanian political parties more transparent. They include requirements to publish more information about their financing and to impose stricter sanctions for political campaign financing violations. […]
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