A lower voter turnout in Sunday’s parliamentary elections signals the public’s disappointment with the incumbent government, Gabrielius Landsbergis, leader of the conservative Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD), said after the polls closed on Sunday. […]
Lithuania’s new parliament must promote economic development and ensure well-being for the nation, says the country’s ex-president Valdas Adamkus. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, the leader of the ruling Social Democratic Party, says he does not feel tired after four years of heading the government, adding that it is the voters’ will that will determine whether the leadership will continue for another term. […]
The conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats would not join a coalition with dishonest parties, the conservatives’ leader Gabrielius Landsbergis said after casting his ballot in Vilnius on Sunday morning. […]
Serious talks on the ruling coalition may start after the first round of voting, says Saulius Skvernelis, the leader of the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union’s candidate list, adding that the union was talking to all potential partners. […]
With a ban on election campaigning in force, the head of the Lithuanian Central Electoral Commission has called on social network users not to encourage others to vote for any specific politician, not to share any campaign material and even not to press the Like button. […]
After Lithuania started to receive more refugees under the European Union (EU) program, its Rukla refugee reception centre may soon start running short on accommodation for all newcomers. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, the leader of the Social Democrats, has taken a day of unpaid holiday this week to meet the electorate of Vilkaviskis, southern Lithuania, ahead of the parliamentary election. […]
“I will always be less concerned about low voter turnout than high turnout with poorly informed voters”, says Thomas A. Bryer, Fulbright core scholar and visiting professor at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). According to him, citizenship does not begin, and does not end with the vote – we are citizens every day. […]
Lithuania’s Social Democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that a voter turnout of between 49 and 54 percent in next Sunday’s parliamentary elections would be a good result. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has urged voters to go the polls on Sunday, saying that it will be people, not politicians or political analysts, who will decide on what political parties will form the country’s next ruling coalition after this month’s parliamentary elections. […]
Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union who voted early in the parliamentary election Kaunas on Wednesday, expressed hope for the party to secure sufficient voter support to be able to form the government after the October 9 elections. […]
Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius, the leader of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement, said after casting his early ballot in parliamentary elections he expected the Liberals to have a larger political group than they had before. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė said after casting her ballot in early voting in the parliamentary elections that she had voted for change. […]
Early voting is starting on Wednesday in municipalities and special post offices in the parliamentary elections of Lithuania. President Dalia Grybauskaitė will also take the opportunity to cast her vote early at the Vilnius municipality. […]
Vilda Vaičiūnienė, the Lithuanian government’s representative in the Vilnius county, has turned to court to prove that the decorative bilingual street signs in Vilnius had been put up illegally. […]
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