Mindaugas Bastys
Politics

Bastys should give MP mandate, as he causes harm to party – Paluckas

After the Lithuanian parliament decided that Social Democratic MP Mindaugas Bastys acted against Lithuania’s interests, he should give up the mandate to avoid further damage to himself and the party, says the Social Democratic Party’s new leader Gintautas Paluckas. […]

Gintaras Steponavičius
Politics

Seimas lifts MP Steponavičius’ immunity

Lithuania’s parliament on Thursday lifted the legal immunity of the Liberal Movement’s MP Gintaras Steponavičius to allow bringing him to justice for abuse. […]

Viktoras Pranskietis
Politics

Seimas speaker favors rejecting president’s veto on municipal in-house purchases

Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, thinks that the Lithuanian parliament should overturn the president’s veto regarding in-house purchases in municipalities as such a ban would affect local enterprises. […]

Mindaugas Bastys and Irena Šiaulienė
Politics

SocDems to vote against conclusion that MP Bastys acted against Lithuania’s interests

The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), the junior partner in the ruling coalition, will not support a parliamentary committee’s conclusion that Mindaugas Bastys, a member of the LSDP political group in the Seimas, acted against the interests of the Lithuanian state by maintaining close and constant contacts with representatives of Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom. […]

Gintaras Steponavičius
Politics

Steponavičius dismisses prosecutor suspicions as “disgraceful”

MP Gintaras Steponavičius of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement has dismissed the suspicions expressed by prosecutors as “disgraceful,” adding he had discussed overall political situation, not specific votes with Raimondas Kurlianskis of MG Baltic concern. […]