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Seimas rejects idea of early election
Lithuania’s parliament rejected the opposition initiative of early parliamentary elections in the first phase of discussion on Tuesday. […]
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President calls for open vote on public broadcaster’s director
President Dalia Grybauskaitė is calling on the Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) Council to elect the public broadcaster’s next director general in an open vote. […]
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President urges MPs to work together, sees no chance for early election
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė calls on members of the Seimas to come together for joint work as she does not think that it is possible to hold an early parliamentary election, her adviser said on Tuesday. […]
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Seimas opposition moves for no-confidence in election chief
Members of the opposition in the Lithuanian parliament are initiating a no-confidence vote against Laura Matjošaitytė, chairwoman of the Central Electoral Commission. […]
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Lithuanian prosecutors to probe alleged TV libel against MP Majauskas
Lithuanian prosecutors on Monday launched a pre-trial investigation regarding an alleged libel against MP Mykolas Majauskas, who was publicly accused in a TV program of sexual misconduct. […]
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Lithuania’s election watchdog to cancel MP Bastys’ mandate Wednesday
Lithuania’s Central Electoral Commission on Monday voted unanimously to revoke the mandate of Mindaugas Bastys as a member of the Seimas, with the decision to take effect on Wednesday. […]
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Grybauskaitė, Matijošaitis, Skvernelis remain most popular figures – poll
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė, Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis and Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis remain the country’s top three most popular politicians, shows a Vilmorus poll published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday. […]
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Lithuania LFGU popularity up, conservatives’ stable – Vilmorus/Lietuvos Rytas poll
Lithuania’s opposition conservatives and the ruling Farmers and Greens Union remain at the top of party ratings, followed by opposition Social Democrats in third, shows a survey conducted by Vilmorus pollster published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday. […]
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Lithuania’s election watchdog to consider Bastys’ plea to cancel mandate
Lithuania’s Central Electoral Commission will Monday consider the plea filed by MP Mindaugas Bastys to revoke his mandate. […]
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MPs register amendments to allow Paksas to run for parliament, president
More than half of members of the Seimas have registered constitutional amendments that would allow Lithuania’s impeached former president, Rolandas Paksas, to run both in parliamentary and presidential elections. […]
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President says search for new justice minister unsuccessful so far
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the search for the country’s next justice minister has been unsuccessful so far. […]
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Seimas speaker could consider quitting if he can’t consolidate Seimas – PM
Viktoras Pranckietis could consider stepping down as the speaker of the Seimas if he sees no possibilities for consolidating the parliament for efficient work, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Friday. […]
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President blames all political parties for atmosphere of ‘bickering’ in Seimas
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that all political parties that have seats in the Seimas are to blame for what she describes as an atmosphere of “bickering” in the parliament. […]
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Lithuanian parlt speaker says not considering resignation (media)
Viktoras Pranckietis says that he has support in the parliament and is not considering stepping down as the speaker of the Seimas, playing down the ruling party leader’s hint that he should do so as emotion-driven. […]
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Seimas speaker can resign if he’s ashamed – ruling party leader
Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), has said that Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, may step down if he is ashamed of some members of the parliament. […]
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Lithuanian prosecutors refuse to open probe on Majauskas
Lithuanian prosecutors have refused to open an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against MP Mykolas Majauskas after failing to find a superiority link between the politician and the young female who had anonymously accused him. […]
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Some 5,000 gather in protest rally outside Seimas
Some 5,000 people gathered outside the Lithuanian parliament in Vilnius on Thursday afternoon to express discontent with the failed parliamentary vote to impeach MP Mindaugas Bastys and the performance of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (EU). […]
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Lithuanian academic ethics guard sacked over anti-Semitism claims
Lithuania’s parliament on Thursday sacked Vigilijus Sadauskas from the post of ombudsman for academic ethics and procedures amid allegations of anti-Semitism after he proposed a reward for a research thesis about Jewish crimes in the 1900s. […]
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Head of Seimas security panel says to back early election motion
The chairman of the Lithuanian parliament’s Committee on National Security and Defence says that he will support the opposition’s proposal to hold early elections in June. […]
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Lithuanian ethics official says his reward offer due to book on Jew-killers
Vigilijus Sadauskas, Lithuania’s ombudsman for academic ethics and procedures, says that he offered a cash reward for a thesis about Jews’ involvement in crimes due to a book on Jew-killers by Rūta Vanagaitė. […]