Last month, ratings of three politicians grew while those of five others fell. A survey commissioned by news agency ELTA and carried out on 12-22 September by pollster Baltijos Tyrimai has revealed that President Dalia Grybauskaitė and former president Valdas Adamkus were the most favourably evaluated public figures in Lithuania, among 70 percent of the polled each. […]
On Friday Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with legal experts to discuss how to ensure transparent and effective work of the Prosecutor General‘s Office. Experts have noted that independence of the prosecutor general has been established in the Constitution. However, there have been repeated attempts to make the institution into a tool for politicians which is diminishing confidence in the state, the president believes. […]
The Social Democrats have proposed to completely transform the current election system in Lithuania. Their proposal includes abolishing single-seat constituencies, dividing Lithuania into 10 voting districts. […]
Following several repeated warnings, the Lithuanian president’s office has decided to turn to court over the eviction of former president Algirdas Brazauskas’ widow Kristina Brazauskienė from a residence in a prestigious neighbourhood of Vilnius she currently occupies. […]
Lithuania’s Constitutional Court issued a ruling on Tuesday, saying that disparities in voter numbers in each of Lithuania’s 71 constituencies were unconstitutional. This puts pressure on Lithuanian lawmakers to make necessary adjustments before the next general elections next year. […]
The Seimas, the Parliament of Lithuania, has accepted for consideration the 2016 state draft budget law after discussions and questions to Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius. […]
Lithuania’s Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that current regulations concerning the size of electoral constituencies is unconstitutional. […]
It is too early to tell how much money will be allocated per refugee for their care, says Lithuania’s Deputy Social Security and Labour Minister Algirdas Šešelgis. […]
Last week, the Lithuanian parliament rejected a bill that would have introduced civil partnership of opposite-sex couples. Conservative MP, who voted against the legislation, says it would have been a step towards legalizing same-sex partnership which, she insists, must be put to a referendum. […]
The leader of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) MEP Valdemar Tomaševski says there is nothing sensational about his meeting with representatives of Russian TV channel Perviy Baltiysky Kanal (First Baltic Channel). […]
Members of the Committee on Legal Affairs of the Lithuanian parliament (Seimas) have suggested to change the procedure of appointing prosecutor general. Under current regulation, the prosecutor general is appointed by the president, with parliament’s approval; a new bill suggests letting the government pick the candidate. […]
A Vilnius unit of the conservative Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) has nominated diplomat Žygimantas Pavilionis to run for a parliament seat in the upcoming general elections next year in the Naujamiestis constituency of Vilnius. […]
After submission on Thursday, the Lithuanian Parliament approved amendments to the Labour Code and accompanying legislation regulating the new social model. […]
A group of 37 members of the Lithuanian Parliament has proposed to launch a parliamentary inquiry into the activities of the PR company Ministerium which was formerly owned by the prime minister’s son-in-law. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has appointed Vaidotas Mažeika to the post of deputy director of the State Security Department. […]
A structural reform plan for the State Security Department will be presented to the members of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee on Wednesday. […]
The Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, rejected the bill that would have introduced the institution of partnership of opposite sex couples. The Ministry of Justice, which drafted the law, says the proposed legislation merely acknowledges the existing forms of cohabitation, while the opponents insist that civil partnership is an encroachment on the institution of marriage and is just one step away from legalizing same-sex partnership. […]
MP Rasa Juknevičienė from the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) parliamentary group of the Lithuanian parliament has been elected as the main rapporteur of the Political Committee of NATO Parliamentary Assembly, which is taking place in Stavanger, Norway. […]
A group of Lithuanian politicians and activists have proposed that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and its subsidiary in Lithuania – the Communist Party of Lithuania (LKP) – be recognized “a criminal organisation, organiser and executor of the genocide of the Lithuanian people, responsible for extermination, deportation and other repressions against Lithuanian residents”. […]
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