Algirdas Butkevičius
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PM: President failed to pass impartiality test during Seimas elections

The leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, outgoing Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, says he had sensed pressure from President Dalia Grybauskaitė upon voters for more than a year to not support the Social Democrats, accusing her of failing to pass the test of impartiality. […]

Gabrielius Landsbergis
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Conservatives say won’t join Peasants, SocDems in coalition talks

The Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats will not hold coalition talks with the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU) while they will be negotiating with the Social Democrats, the conservative party’s leader said on Friday. […]

Saulius Skvernelis, Ramūnas Karbauskis, Dalia Grybauskaitė
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President vows to put no pressure on Peasants over coalition partners

President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that she will not put any pressure on the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), the party that won the most seats in the recent parliamentary elections, over ruling coalition partners. […]

At the Labour Party's HQ
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