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Extraordinary parliament session ends one hour after beginning
The Seimas of Lithuania ended the extraordinary session called for by the opposition one hour after it began, after MPs voted down the proposed agenda. […]
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Lithuanian parliament convenes for extraordinary session
The Seimas of Lithuania is gathering for an extraordinary session on Wednesday to decide on whether to launch an impeachment process against Labour Party MP Vytautas Gapšys who has been sentenced in the party’s fraudulent bookkeeping case. […]
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Liberal Movement pick best among its ranks
The Liberal Movement party, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, distributed awards to the best members of the party. Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius was named the politician of the year for 2015. […]
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Polish party suggests changing election rules to favour ethnic minority representatives
The Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania party has proposed an amendment to electoral laws that would lower the threshold for ethnic minority parties to win parliament seats. […]
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MEP Guoga to give up Australian citizenship ahead of elections in Lithuania
Lithuanian MEP Antanas Guoga, member of the Liberal Movement party, says he has decided to renounce his Australian citizenship. The move might allow him to run for a seat in the Lithuanian parliament, but Guoga says it is not the reason he decided to do it. […]
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Paksas rejects talks about stepping down as Order and Justice party leader
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. […]
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Social Democrats continue to top popularity rankings
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. […]
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Labour leadership smooths over rifts within party
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. […]
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Opposition calls for extraordinary Seimas session to impeach Labour MP
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. […]
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Social democrat Andriukaitis accuses president of fuelling political crises
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. […]
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New bill on dual citizenship being drafted ahead of planned referendum
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. […]
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PM questioned in construction fraud investigation
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius was questioned by Special Investigation Service (STT) officers investigating construction fraud in Druskininkai. […]
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President signs decree to sack healthcare minister
Lithuania‘s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed a decree to dismiss Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė, a social democrat, from the post of healthcare minister. […]
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PM must accept responsibility for corruption in his cabinet, president Grybauskaitė says
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. […]
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Druskininkai mayor should suspend party membership while under investigation, says PM
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. […]
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Why was sentence so light for Labour party founder?
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? […]
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Prime Minister sues opposition MP for slander
Lithuania’s Social Democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has filed a defamation suit against conservative member of parliament Agnė Bilotaitė. […]
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Deputy agriculture minister steps down amidst suspected corruption in food-for-poor programme
Agriculture Minister Virginija Baltraitienė has accepted resignation of her deputy Vilius Martusevičius over alleged corruption in the ministry’s food for poor programme. […]
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Druskininkai mayor admits paying contractors on property at centre of corruption investigation
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. […]