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Failed attempt in Seimas to make constitutional changes more difficult

November 20, 2018 www.lrt.lt 0

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. […]

Andrius Palionis, Gintautas Paluckas, Gediminas Kirkilas

Paluckas says he doesn’t fear Social Democrats split

October 27, 2017 BNS 0

Gintautas Paluckas, the leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, says he does not fear that the party would split. He spoke in response to the decision taken y breakaway MPs to set up a new political force. […]

A. M. Brazauskas’ old guard and their true faces

October 19, 2017 Indre Makaraityte 0

What was and is the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party? A party, whose leader Gintautas Paluckas has just announced that with party veterans having withdrawn or being removed, an era has ended and his critics have […]

Kirkilas – this drama is partly of our own creation

October 16, 2017 Media Briefing 0

The ambiguity in the Social Democrat ranks that has continued for some time now ended on Saturday, with half an hour left to the party council meeting. Having firmly stood by not withdrawing from the […]

At a Social Democratic Party Presidium seating

Social Democratic Party’s rebels exit after calls for expel them

October 16, 2017 BNS 0

Eight members of the political group of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party terminated their membership in the party on Saturday, just an hour before the Social Democratic Party’s council was planned to consider their expulsion over refusal to obey the party’s decision. […]

The Ethics and Procedures Commission of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party on 7 October

Social Democrat rebels are not yielding

October 9, 2017 Dalia Pikune 0

The Social Democrat rebels, whom the party ethics commission has proposed to remove from the party, are not yielding and still have aims to appeal to their fellow party members. “I believe that is why […]

Rebellious SocDem MPs ask party’s congress to annul council’s decision to withdraw from coalition

October 6, 2017 BNS 0

The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party’s (LSDP) MPs who have opted to continue cooperation with the ruling Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), want the party’s congress to annul the decision by the party’s council to withdraw from the coalition. […]

Why Paluckas is not aspiring for a seat in the Seimas?

June 2, 2017 BNS EN 0

Beginning from the election of the chairman of the social democrat party many questions were raised pertaining to the fact that Gintautas Paluckas not being a Member of Parliament. However, the before mentioned fact about […]

Palionis elected head of Lithuanian SocDems’ group in Seimas

May 25, 2017 BNS EN 0

Andrius Palionis, deputy chairman of the Seimas’ Budget and Finance Committee, has been elected as head of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party’s political group in the parliament, the party said. […]

Skvernelis thinking about a “rainbow”?

April 13, 2017 Media Briefing 0

“I think that the Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is waiting for his supporters in the Parliament Farmer group will unify, gain strength, and then it will form a new coalition with the Social Democrats and […]

Do the old Social Democrats get scared of Paluckas’ coup?

April 12, 2017 Media Briefing 0

Chairman of the Social Democratic Party won the election ticket to the second round for the winning Gintautas Paluckas and Mindaugas Sinkevičius, party members are already predicting fate. According to them, everything will be determined […]

Social Democrats employ special tactic against “Farmers” to effect

February 22, 2017 DELFI 0

During the weekend Social Democrat presidium meeting the Social Democrat Chairman Algirdas Butkevičius expressed anger that the Farmer and Greens Union is not deliberating with the Social Democrats and is not organising any joint discussions […]

Zones of radioctive termination of the Astravyets nuclear power plant

Parties agree to closer coordinate efforts to block Belarus’ N-plant

February 10, 2017 BNS EN 0

Leaders of Lithuanian parliamentary political parties on February 10 agreed on closer coordination of efforts to block electricity from a nuclear power plant that Belarus is building in Astravyets, just around 50 kilometers from Vilnius. […]

MPs unimpressed by Peasants’ proposal to change election date

December 23, 2016 BNS EN 0

The ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union’s idea of changing the date of parliamentary elections and curtail the current parliament’s term by six months has caused major doubts among other parliamentarians. […]

Social Democrat “rebels” angered by Butkevičius

November 9, 2016 DELFI 0

Four members of the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) negotiation group released a public statement on Wednesday, right before the signing of the coalition agreement with the Peasant and Greens Union. The statement declares that some of the actions of the party Chairman Algirdas Butkevičius and the fraction prefect Irena Šiaulienė were not discussed with the negotiation group. […]

Lithuania’s ruling parties usurped legislation, opposition complains

December 29, 2015 LT Daily 0

Almost 5,000 legislative bills have been registered at the Lithuanian parliament since it took oath in 2012. A third of them have been proposed by the ruling Social Democratic Party. The opposition says that the governing majority has usurped the legislative process and do not want to discuss their proposals, lzinios.lt reports. […]

9 MPs register bill on same-sex partnership

March 25, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Nine Lithuanian MPs representing the Social Democratic and Liberal party groups have registered a bill to allow same-sex partnership. […]