Politics

A year of party decline: numbers reveal an uncomfortable truth

The Gintautas Paluckas’ Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) remains Lithuania’s largest political party with a membership of 16,545 members. However, both the LSDP and the other parties in decline in Lithuania in membership this year, […]

Lithuania

Will there be new “saviours”? What should be expected from the 2020 Seimas elections

“Lithuanian elect “saviours” primarily due to disappointment,” political scientist Kęstutis Girnius commented on Lithuanians‘ electoral preferences in the lead up to the nearing 2020 Seimas elections, Viktorija Rimaitė, wrote in Lrytas.lt The Labour Party (DP), […]

During the resent protests in Poland
Politics

“Farmer” tactics similar to a neighbouring country’s party

The elections that took place in Poland did not go unnoticed in Lithuania. With Poland’s Law and Justice (PiS) party has won the trust of its electorate yet again, hope to repeat the same winning […]

Lithuania

Is there a need to worry about national identity?

One of the most complicated problems that President Gitanas Nausėda is going to face is nationalism.  It is awakening in Europe and it will reach Lithuania too, even though not in the shapes we are […]