Politics
‘Peasant’ Pranckietis elected as Seimas speaker
Viktoras Pranckietis of the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union was elected as Lithuania’s new parliamentary speaker on November 14. […]
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Karbauskis addresses concerns – “controlling” posts will go to opposition
Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LPGU) Chairman Ramūnas Karbauskis is attempting to ease the future opposition’s concerns – “controlling” posts in various parliamentary committees and commissions will go specifically to the opposition. Earlier unofficial information […]
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ELECTIONS. Gentvilas sees no reason to form negotiation bloc with Conservatives
Liberal Movement frontrunner Eugenijus Gentvilas sees no reason to form a negotiation bloc with the Conservatives. He believes that while the parties agree on a number of points, there are also a number of differences, […]
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Opposition criticizes draft 2017 budget as ‘semi-finished product’
Lithuania’s opposition lawmakers say that next year’s budget drafted by the outgoing government is “a semi-finished product” that should not be taken seriously. […]
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ELECTIONS. Liberal Movement preparing for coalition negotiations
The Liberal Movement has set up a work group for negotiations with potential coalition partners and have agreed on the topics they want to see included in the new cabinet’s programme. Liberal Movement representative Martynas […]
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Gentvilas: Liberal Movement readying for talks with Conservatives
The Lithuanian Liberal Movement, which has already secured eight mandates in the country’s 141-seat parliament, is readying for negotiations with the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, says Eugenijus Gentvilas, the number one candidate on the Liberals’ election list. […]
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ELECTIONS. Analysis. Social policy debate – another victory for the “Peasants”
The “Peasants” (LVŽS) are celebrating their second consecutive debate victory, shows a survey of experts done by LRT.lt after the social policy debate. The “Peasant’s” performance was once again voted as the best, however the lead over the Conservatives (TS-LKD) who were left in second place is only one point. Furthermore most experts agree that G. Landsbergis’ (TS-LKD) closing statement was the strongest, while S. Skvernelis’ (LVŽS) speech was decent, but reading off a paper made for a bad image. […]
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ELECTIONS. Parties already negotiating but remain mute about it
LRT.lt sources suggest that Peasant and Greens (LVŽS) negotiations with the Social Democrats (LSDP) are led by former Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis, while the negotiations with the Conservatives (TS-LKD) are led by the […]
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ELECTIONS: the Social Democratic Party in brief
LRT Radio and lrt.lt continues its cycle of political party introductions. This time, we introduce the history and work of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (LSDP). The party with the longest historyThe Lithuanian social […]
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ELECTIONS. Debate on Law evaluation. Part 1
Thursday (September 30) evening LRT Television featured its ninth electoral debate. The topics focused on this evening were law enforcement in general, the work of the Lithuanian police and combatting corruption. The Labour Party (DP), […]
Politics
Most leaders of Seimas election lists back same-sex partnerships
If ordinary members of Lithuania’s next parliament back the ideas of their leaders, the country may adopt a historic decision to legalize homosexual relations within the next four years. […]
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ELECTIONS. Demographics debate: experts praise 3 politicians
The September 22 evening debate on LRT television focused on the fate of higher education institutions, drawing expatriates back, ways to curb increasing alcoholism and how to increase incomes in regions. The previous debate was […]
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ELECTIONS. The most likely coalition governments after elections
With only a couple of weeks remaining to the Seimas elections, the electoral campaigning isn‘t the only thing to reach a fevered peak, so are the calculations and debates on who will form the coalition […]
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ELECTIONS 2016: Gentvilas confident in Liberal Movement’ chances in the upcoming election
Senior Member of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement Eugenijus Gentvilas believes that despite his party’s diminished ratings they will have no problem mobilizing their electorate and stepping over the 5% vote boundary needed to enter Seimas. […]
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ELECTIONS 2016 Economics: Šilėnas: a spar between ratings heavyweights
On the evening of September 13 a political debate featuring the top five largest Lithuanian parties was broadcast on LRT Television. The topic of the debate – economics. The debating parties were the Lithuanian Social […]
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ELECTIONS 2016 Economics. Girnius was pleasantly surprised by Skvernelis
On the evening of September 13 a political debate featuring the top five largest Lithuanian parties was broadcast on LRT Television. The topic of the debate – economics. The debating parties were the Lithuanian Social […]
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ELECTIONS 2016, Economics. Katkus: Landsbergis‘ plan was successful
On the evening of September 13 a political debate featuring the top five largest Lithuanian parties was broadcast on LRT Television. The topic of the debate – economics. The debating parties were the Lithuanian Social […]
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ELECTIONS 2016. Economics. Laučius: SocDems and Conservatives had the strongest showing
On the evening of September 13 a political debate featuring the top five largest Lithuanian parties was broadcast on LRT Television. The topic of the debate – economics. The debating parties were the Lithuanian Social […]
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Liberal Movement urges for depoliticised Central Electoral Commission
The Liberal Movement is urging to change the regulations behind the composition of the Central Electoral Commission (VRK) DELFI reported. The party hopes that with the institution’s work being depoliticised the commission could work in […]
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September 14, Electoral debates on economics – key points
– Clash between the Chairman of the Social Democrats Algirdas Butkevičius and Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) Chairman Gabrielius Landsbergis on the topic of poverty. o Landsbergis pointed out a 4% increase from 18% to […]