After failing to hear of Gabrielius Landsbergis’ resignation over the fertiliser transit scandal, President Gitanas Nausėda continues to scramble the Conservative leader out of his ministerial post, but he does so while slipping himself, Tadas […]
The divorce between Saulius Skvernelis and Ramūnas Karbauskis has left the “Farmers” greatly ruffled. However, they find consolation in that the ruling bloc Freedom Party has had its wings clipped, even more, Tada Ignatavičius wrote […]
What can we predict about the nearing presidential and European Parliament elections now that the municipal elections ended? […]
Something special should be said on a morning such as this. Indeed, elections, which are the most important for most, were just held. Firstly, important because mayors and municipal council members are the closest to the people of all the branches of government. And second, these elections will change the owners of many offices, Rimvydas Valatka said on Žinių radijas. […]
With little time left to the municipal and direct mayoral elections, political party leaders are pondering, which city and region bastions they will hold on to and where they have chances to break through. The Social Democrats, Liberal Movement and Order and Justice Party remain modest both about increases in their mayors and council members, while the Conservatives and “Farmers”, who remain the most popular parties, believe that they could reach historical victories in the elections, lrt.lt writes. […]
Understanding that they may lack votes in Seimas to approve the LRT commission’s conclusions, the “Farmers” are seeking to reach their goals at any cost. According the Liberals, in order to approve the ad hoc commission’s investigation conclusions, the “Farmers” are taking to procedural manipulations, a press release from the Liberal Movement states according to lrt.lt. […]
The Klaipėda liquefied natural gas floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) terminal should be bought out by the end of 2024, members of Seimas voted today. […]
Liberal Movement leader Eugenijus Gentvilas tells lrt.lt that Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, who has announced the firing of three ministers, may seek to provoke a dissolution of the cabinet and use this to portray himself as a victim in the presidential elections, lrt.lt writes. […]
“I wish to announce a piece of important and good news. After I left the party several weeks ago, I did not expect that so many liberally thinking people would write to me that they wish to meet, contribute to the formation and activities of a new liberal political power. Thus, it is clear – there will be a liberal political party!” Aušrinė Armonaitė wrote on her Facebook profile on Friday. […]
Prior to starting deliberations regarding changes on the number of members of Seimas, Liberal Movement Seimas group prefect Eugenijus Gentvilas presented a resolution to the Seimas “Over the constant attempts to change the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania.” With this, it was proposed to form an expert group, which would evaluate whether there is actual need to change the country’s most important document. The resolution was rejected after discussions. […]
Lithuania’s Liberal Movement‘s members are not walking out on the party, its leader Eugenijus Gentvilas says after several party branches decided to take part in the forthcoming municipal election by establishing election committees instead of party lists. […]
A Seimas term marked by scandals, disputes, intrigue and dubious decisions has reached its halfway point. The majority boasts of its achievements and pledge to continue levelling mountains. Meanwhile, the opposition assures they have never […]
MP Aušrinė Armonaitė is stepping down as the Lithuanian Liberal Movement‘s vice-chairwoman and will not run as the party’s candidate in next year’s European Parliament election. […]
Three opposition political groups in the Lithuanian parliament have invited Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and Government Chancellor Algirdas Stončaitis to their joint meeting on Thursday to clarify the circumstances under which the audio recording of a Cabinet meeting on giving the media free access to registry data was deleted. […]
Eugenijus Gentvilas, chairman of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement, has called on Remigijus Šimašius to step down as vice-chairman of the party after the mayor of Vilnius announced his decision to run for re-election as a public election committee’s candidate, the daily Lietuvos Rytas reported on Tuesday. […]
The recent scandal with the cabinet deciding to not open up the Centre of Registers‘ data up to news media shows, according to political scientist Šarūnas Liekis that the government still hasn’t learnt to consult […]
The Seimas opposition blocked on Tuesday an overhaul of public funding of political parties that would have paved the way for allocating over 200,000 euros in state budget funds to the Lithuanian Social Democratic Labor Party (LSDDP). […]
The members of the Liberal Movement, which is suspect in a political corruption trial, are at a crossroads: to participate in the nearing municipal elections with the party or establish electoral committees. Not only the […]
The Conservatives have been offered to use Antanas Guoga as a black horse in the elections, establish links to Naglis Puteikis and Kristupas Krivickas‘ party and non-publically back Remigijus Šimašius and Aušrinė Armonaitė. Such measures […]
Both the majority and opposition predict that the new political season starting with the autumn session next week will be tense. The atmosphere will be heated not only by various politicians’ agenda questions, but also […]
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