Renata Cytacka, the controversial former deputy minister of energy delegated by the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA), will try her luck in the election for a vacant seat in Parliament. […]
The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives) have invited former finance minister Ingrida Šimonytė to run for Vilnius mayor in municpal elections next year. Meanwhile the Liberal Movement has nominated the party’s former finance minister, Remigijus Šimašius, for the post. […]
Elections to Lithuania’s municipal councils are proposed to be held on 1 March 2015. […]
The Conservative, Labour and Order and Justice parties of Lithuania employ emotionally charged rhetoric to built their image, while the Social Democrats and the Liberals use a more rational sort of discourse, claim political experts interviewed by the portal LRT.lt. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with representatives of the Prosecutors’ Trade Union to discuss major issues in their work and changes that need to be immediately implemented in order to ensure effective and quality activity of the Prosecutor’s Office. […]
Members of the political group of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) have registered a new ethnic minority bill, which would allow broad official use of the minority language and bilingual signs, as well as put the state under the obligation to provide financial support to ethnic minorities. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the country should do everything in its power to abide by the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and reduce the number of petitions reaching the European Court of Human Rights. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė assures that by raising defence spending the government will not forget promises to reduce social exclusion. The president voiced an opinion that the two objectives will have to be reconciled. […]
Chair of the Liberal Movement parliamentary group Eligijus Masiulis has announced that the Seimas Opposition will pursue a seat of deputy parliament speaker. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė congratulated members of Parliament with the start of the autumn session on Wednesday. As Lithuania and Europe experience a tense time, the president wished for a focused, responsible and wise session. […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s board on Wednesday cancelled its approval to let MP Egidijus Vareikis of the Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives) on a trip to Russia. […]
Lithuania’s parliament is opening its autumn session on Wednesday. […]
Repeated and deliberate failure to attend plenary meetings, which leads to interruptions of adoption of key decisions, have caused the Lithuanian parliament‘s leadership to consider penalties including wage cuts and publicity, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports. […]
An official of the European Court of Human Rights has said in response to an ad hoc parliamentary commission about restoration of rights of the Order and Justice party’s leader Rolandas Paksas that it would be a good idea to allow the politician to run in the 2016 elections. […]
Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says that the priorities for the upcoming autumn session of the Lithuanian Seimas are national defence and reduction of social exclusion. […]
Renaldas Seibutis, 29-year-old shooting guard of the Lithuanian national basketball team, will run in the elections to local government in the seaside resort of Palanga next year. […]
Lithuania has stepped up its border controls after an Estonian security service officer was abducted and taken to Russia, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Saturday. “I can say that certain decisions were taken yesterday to step up controls in border areas,” he told reporters. […]
The Lithuanian parliament is likely to set the date of the country’s first ever direct mayoral elections and of regular local council elections for March 1, 2015, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on Saturday. […]
All ethnic minorities should agree on the National Minority Law, says Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė, making it clear that the adoption of the law initiated by the former ruling party Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) is not envisaged in the agenda of parliament’s fall session. […]
Minister of Culture Šarūnas Birutis on Thursday approved the resignation of deputy minister of culture Erika Furman. […]
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