Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas
Politics

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. […]

Gediminas Černiauskas
Politics

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. […]

Searches in offices of the Order and Justice party
Politics

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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Politics

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. […]

Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas and Loreta Graužinienė
Politics

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. […]