Lithuania’s parliament will consider a proposal by the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Green Union to lower the referendum threshold to amending part of constitutional chapters. […]
If the Seimas decides to lower the referendum threshold for two chapters of the Constitution that now have a higher level of protection, the Constitutional Court will be asked to give its opinion on the amendment, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Tuesday. […]
Unpleasant steps are being taken regarding Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) by the Seimas, LRT Director General Monika Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė says. According to her, there have been various attempts to limit the freedom of press during […]
The Lithuanian parliament overturned on Thursday President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s veto of amendments tightening the requirements for the construction of waste-to-energy plants, leaving in place the legislation it passed in September. […]
The Seimas violated its Statute when it adopted an amendment to the budget bill that allows the state to borrow money to provide funding to new political parties, the parliament’s Commission for Ethics and Procedures said on Wednesday. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday decided that a referendum on dual citizenship will be held in May alongside a president election. […]
After the Lithuanian parliament passes a resolution to hold a dual citizenship referendum, the Constitutional Court will be asked to assess whether the planned plebiscite is in line with the main law. […]
The guerilla war that started in Lithuania at the end of the second World War Two was the state’s legitimate self-defense against the Soviet aggression and Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, whose remains were buried in a state funeral on Saturday, was the commander-in-chief of the republic’s armed forces, the Lithuanian Constitutional Court‘s president said on Friday. […]
Lithuania’s Central Electoral Commission on Thursday approved the results of the last weekend’s election in Zanavykai constituency to fill a vacant parliamentary seat and officially declared Irena Haase, representing the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, as the winner. […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s ad hoc investigation commission scrutinizing the activities of the Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) says the public broadcaster’s council currently has too many functions and proposes to establish a board. […]
On Saturday, MEP and impeached from the office of president Rolandas Paksas announced that his is departing the Order and Justice party that he founded. But he is not leaving politics. He is creating a […]
Irena Haase, representing the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, has won the Sunday’s by-election in Lithuania’s Zanavykai constituency, held to fill a vacant parliament seat, according to preliminary data from the country’s Central Electoral Commission. […]
Member of Seimas Stasys Jakeliūnas has taken aim at the cabinet of Andrius Kubilius – at Kubilius himself and Ingrida Šimonytė. However, earlier S. Jakeliūnas was blaming not them, but the previous government – the […]
Conservative Irena Haase entered the second round of the repeat Seimas elections in Šakiai with 35 percent of the vote versus 20 percent of the self-nominated former social democrat Bastys, for whom, after the Constitutional […]
The Lithuanian parliament plans on Thursday to make a final decision on an overhaul of the model of public funding of political parties. […]
The Seimas plans to debate on Thursday draft constitutional amendments that would pave the way for Lithuania’s impeached former president, Rolandas Paksas, to stand as a candidate in elections. […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s ad hoc investigative commission scrutinizing the finances of the Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) proposes in its draft findings to change the public broadcaster’s management structure. […]
The costs of a dual citizenship referendum in Lithuania might range from 1.8 to 2.45 million euros, based on the calculations by the Central Electoral Commission. […]
Irena Haase, representing the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, and Mindaugas Bastys, a former social democrat who stood for election as an independent candidate, have gotten into the run-off of a by-election in Lithuania’s Zanavykai constituency, held to fill a vacant parliament seat, according to preliminary data. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday criticized legislative initiatives to lower the referendum threshold as “irresponsible” and “dangerous”, calling on lawmakers to instead look for ways to encourage voters to turn out for a dual citizenship referendum. […]
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