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Lithuania’s interior minister steps down
Lithuania’s Minister of the Interior Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas submitted his letter of resignation on Thursday. The minister says he’s stepping down due to deteriorating health. […]
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Lithuania’s Polish party leader to run for Vilnius mayor
The Council of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania is nominating its leader Valdemar Tomaševski to run for the post of Vilnius mayor, the politician himself confirmed to BNS on Wednesday. […]
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Opposition starts collecting signatures to remove Lithuania’s interior minister
The Seimas political groups of the Homeland Union and the Liberal Movement have initiated an interpellation to Interior Minister Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas and started collecting MPs’ signatures. […]
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Head of Lithuania’s Public Procurement Office steps down
Head of the Public Procurement Office (VPT) Žydrūnas Plytnikas, whose actions regarding a dispute of a private nature were influenced by an interest conflict, is leaving his post. His letter of resignation will be accepted both by the prime minister and the president. […]
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Lithuanian social democrats consider leading minority government
The Order and Justice party might leave the ruling coalition amid an ongoing corruption scandal at the Ministry of the Interior, and one could not discount the possibility that Lithuania might have a minority government, says Gediminas Kirkilas, vice-chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, the largest party in the ruling block. […]
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Lithuania’s deputy healthcare minister resigns over protectionism accusations
Deputy Health Minister Gediminas Černiauskas has decided to resign from his post. […]
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Lithuanian president’s advisers questioned in state secret leak case
Several current and former advisers to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė were questioned at Vilnius City District Court as part of the hearing of a criminal case against ex-presidential spokeswoman Daiva Ulbinaitė who is charged with leaking classified information and abuse of office. […]
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Lithuania’s deputy healthcare minister in double scandal
Lithuanian deputy minister of healthcare Gediminas Černiauskas has been named in two stories of alleged corruption: for making decisions favouring a company he co-owns and for trying to secure a post for his party colleague. […]
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Lithuanian interior minister will have to resign if his associates are found guilty of corruption
If law enforcement agencies find that members of the Minister of the Interior Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas‘ team breached laws, the minister will have to assume moral responsibility and resign, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Monday. […]
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Deputy interior minister steps down after merely days in office
On Friday, the new Deputy Minister of Interior Paulius Beinaris (30), delegated by the Order and Justice party, submitted his letter of resignation which the minister accepted shortly. Beinaris says that he was forced to step down because of “hostile atmosphere”. […]
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Lithuanian PM says Order and Justice party will not quit coalition
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has denied speculations that if Minister of the Interior Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas resigns, his party, the Order and Justice, will leave the ruling coalition. […]
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Order and Justice party going to court over searches in its offices
Lithuania’s ruling Order and Justice party intends to take to court the Special Investigation Service (STT) over the searches carried out at its Vilnius bureau. […]
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Prosecutors not to demand arrests in Lithuania’s Interior Ministry corruption case
The prosecutor in the so-called Ministry of the Interior case in Lithuania has decided not to demand the arrest of the suspects who subsequently received softer measures of suppression. […]
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Lithuanian parliament passes amendment allowing EU citizens to run in municipal and EP elections
With 54 votes in favour, 3 against and 10 abstentions, Lithuania’s parliament approved draft amendments to the preamble to the Law on Political Parties, implementing the requirement laid down in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to guarantee citizens of the union who are not nationals of that state the right to stand as candidates in municipal elections and in elections to the European Parliament, the Seimas’ press service reports. […]
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President would not comment on whether Lithuanian interior minister should resign
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has refused to comment on the suitability of Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas to continue as interior minister. Meanwhile Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has asked the minister to stay on until investigation into corruption at the ministry is concluded. […]
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Conservatives threaten to remove Lithuania’s minister of interior
The parliamentary group of the conservative Homeland Union will initiate interpellation against Minister of the Interior Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas, unless he resigns himself. This was confirmed by opposition leader Andrius Kubilius. […]
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Lithuania’s interior minister says he will not resign
Lithuania’s Interior Minister Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas of the Order and Justice party says he has no intentions of resigning amid the corruption suspicions against former members of his political team. […]
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Lithuanian parliament speaker says interior minister should resign
Lithuanian Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says she would resign, if she were in the place of Interior Minister Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas, whose former associates were detained amidst corruption investigation on Tuesday. […]
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Lithuanian governing party’s headquarters searched amidst corruption investigation
Agents from Lithuania’s Special Investigation Service (STT) on Tuesday searched the headquarters of the country’s ruling Order and Justice party and arrested five individuals, including former adviser and deputy to the minister of the interior. […]
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Lithuanian PM disappointed with coalition for refusing to lift tax exemptions on heating
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that the ruling coalition has left room for populism in the future when it rejected proposals to lift VAT exemption on heating. He says that the coalition should deliberate whether it has enough political will to admit that the VAT exemption should be left in place for an indefinite period. […]