The Social Democratic political group in the Seimas will support the reintroduction of military conscription, says the leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius. […]
Advance voting in the second round of mayoral elections begins in Lithuania on 11 March. Voters can cast their votes at any polling stations in 60 municipalities of Lithuania. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania started its spring session on Tuesday. Congratulating lawmakers on the occasion, President Dalia Grybauskaitė welcomed decisions made during the autumn session, including those on defence spending and euro introduction. […]
Every MP will decide individually on the reintroduction of conscripts, there will be no agreement on the matter, Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė said on Monday after a meeting of representatives of ruling parties. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has sharply criticised the Central Electoral Commission (VRK) after facts surfaced about election violations in Trakai municipality and mass re-registration of place of residence elsewhere. According to the president, these facts attest to the lack of quality in the commissions work. […]
Lithuanian MP Emanuelis Zingeris, of the conservative Homeland Union, has proposed a resolution on the murder of Russia‘s opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. The Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas, might debate the resolution in its spring session due to open on Tuesday. […]
Lithuania’s Central Electoral Commission decided on Sunday to cancel the results of the elections to local governments and mayors in Trakai. […]
Several dozen people are consciously helping Russia to spread propaganda in Lithuania, says historian Arvydas Anušauskas, a member of the Lithuanian parliament’s National Security and Defence Committee. […]
Lithuania’s Central Electoral Commission on Friday set up a special panel to investigate the scale of alleged local election violations in the town of Trakai, 28km west of Vilnius, and suggest a decision on the recognition of the election results. […]
Six candidates of the Lithuanian Freedom Union (liberals), headed by Vilnius Mayor Artūras Zuokas, are suspected of organizing buying of votes in the elections to the Trakai district municipal council. […]
The Liberal Movement has referred to the Central Electoral Commission (VRK), asking to annul election results in Trakai District and to hold rerun elections to ensure transparency. […]
Having heard opinions of some MPs regarding the reintroduction of military conscription, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that a discussion at the Seimas on the issue will probably be very lively. […]
Deputy Commissioner General of Lithuania’s police Renatas Požela is to be appointed head of the country’s State Border Guard Service, the government said on Thursday. […]
Deputy Director of the Special Investigation Service (STT) Romas Zienka says that in 2025 Lithuania should come within the top 10 of the most transparent member states of the European Union. […]
After local elections in Lithuania last Sunday, the new Vilnius City Municipality Council will include 38 male and 12 female councillors. The Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania and the Russian Alliance Block of Valdemar Tomaševski delegated four women, the Liberal Movement, three, the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD), two, and the remaining parties that were voted in will have one woman representative each. […]
Mindaugas Lingė, the presidential advisor on internal affairs, says that the new system of electing Lithuanian mayors directly did not cause a revolution, but that people of the country themselves confirmed that the political system in Lithuania is in a good state. […]
The Liberal Movement has improved its position in terms of the number of council seats following the Sunday local elections in Lithuania, compared to the last municipal elections in 2011. […]
If five current Lithuanian MPs who managed to get to the second round of mayoral elections win and take up posts as mayors, 5 constituencies of Lithuania would have to hold new parliamentary elections to find replacements for them, said Zenonas Vaigauskas, head of the Central Electoral Commission (VRK). […]
Increasing popularity of the Liberal Movement is the main take-away from Sunday’s local elections in Lithuania, political experts say. […]
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