Juozas Bernatonis EN Archives - the Lithuania Tribune

Social Democrat Labour seek a president: A. Butkevičius mentioned as a potential candidate to his own surprise

January 2, 2019 Media Briefing 0

The Lithuanian Social Democratic Labour Party could back the presidential bid of Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis if he chose to run for president, however the party is also considering the candidacies of Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius and former Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, LSDDP member Juozas Bernatonis told lrt.lt. A. Butkevičius himself assures he is only considering participating in the European Parliament elections. […]

M. Jastramskis reveals, why the “Farmers” won the elections: who is in centre matters

November 30, 2018 Media Briefing 0

Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science (VU TSPMI) political scientist Mažvydas Jastramskis has analysed trends in Seimas elections and noted that Lithuanian voters are particularly conscious of the “second choice”, thus politicians should remain aware of which parties appear in the so-called centre, lrt.lt writes. […]

Seimas committees condemn Russian aggression against Ukraine

November 28, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

The Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on National Security and Defence of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania have released a joint statement condemning Russian actions against Ukrainian Navy ships on 25 November, 2018. […]

Bakas: some of the members of Širinskienė‘s commission should be investigated themselves

November 7, 2018 Edmundas Jakilaitis 0

Seimas National Security and Defence Committee chairman, “Farmer” group member Vytautas Bakas did not support the special commission on LRT activities conclusions in Seimas and the conclusions were not approved. Recently, V. Bakas has increasingly […]

Seimas backs changes to party funding rules, LSDDP to get state subsidy

October 18, 2018 BNS 0

The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday adopted amendments to the law on party funding, thus paving the way for the Social Democratic Labor Party of Lithuania (LSDDP), which was established after the last general election, to get a state subsidy. […]

Seimas speaker invites Palestinians to open Baltic representation in Lithuania

October 17, 2018 BNS 0

Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, invited Palestinians to set up a representative office for the Baltic countries in Vilnius and called for closer security cooperation between Lithuania and Israel. […]

Seimas opposition blocks bid to provide state subsidy to breakaway SocDems

September 25, 2018 BNS 0

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). […]

Seimas to decide on overhaul of party subsidies

September 20, 2018 BNS 0

The Lithuanian parliament plans on Thursday to make a final decision on an overhaul of the model of public funding of political parties. […]

Lithuanian president slams move to lower referendum threshold as dangerous

September 13, 2018 BNS 0

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. […]

Seimas speaker to visit Israel in mid-October

September 4, 2018 BNS 0

Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, will pay an official visit to Israel in mid-October. […]

Lithuania’s TS-LKD suggest considering moving embassy to Jerusalem

May 15, 2018 BNS 0

The opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats on Tuesday called on Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius to consider a possibility to move Lithuania’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, following in the steps of the United States. […]

Andrius Palionis, Gintautas Paluckas, Gediminas Kirkilas

Honorary LSDP member points out a leader, who could reunite the split party

April 20, 2018 Media Briefing 0

The Social Democrats and the recently founded Social Democrat Labourites are like cat and dog. Social Democrat leader Gintautas Paluckas has described his former colleagues, who withdrew from the party to found their own as […]

Scandal heroes appearing from all corners: who will Karbauskis bet on?

April 3, 2018 Jurga Tvaskiene 0

The newly formed Social Democrat Labour Party has assured itself the backing of the ruling “Farmers,” however it cannot fend off criticism from its former Social Democrat comrades. Analysts believe that the two organisations will […]

Irena Šiaulienė, Juozas Bernatonis, Gediminas Kirkilas, Živilė Pinskuvienė

J. Bernatonis about G. Paluckas’ party: it would be shameful to call them Social Democrats

March 27, 2018 Media Briefing 0

A new party has appeared in Lithuania – politicians, who broke away from the Social Democrats, together with a number of former Labour Party members have founded the united Lithuanian Social Democratic Labour (LSDD) Party. […]

Tomas Dapkus. The roots of the Justice Ministry scandal

March 7, 2018 Tomas Dapkus 0

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis‘ first days back from holidays were much hotter than the Spanish sun. Vice Minister of Justice Raimondas Bakšys resigned on Monday. This was a publically expressed ultimatum-like desire from S. Skvernelis’ […]

Gediminas Kirkilas and Juozas Bernatonis

Social Democrat “rebels” creating an intrigue: No one is controlling us from Moscow

February 9, 2018 Jurga Tvaskiene 0

MPs who have withdrawn from the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP), who have spoken of the creation of a new organisation, state that it will be done at “the politically most convenient time.” The former […]

Algirdas Butkevičius specifies who will compete in the second round of the presidential elections

January 26, 2018 Media Briefing 0

Former Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) chair and former Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is sceptical of talks about S. Skvernelis choosing to not participate in the presidential elections. “It is not only gut feeling, but […]

Breakaway SocDems spreading message to Europe about “radical left” emerging in Lithuania

November 24, 2017 BNS 0

The Lithuanian Social Democratic Labour group, which has split from the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party and is headed by MPs Gediminas Kirkilas and Juozas Bernatonis, have sent a letter to European politicians and diplomats, which criticizes the Gintautas Paluckas-led LSDP as “radical left” that denies achievements of market economy. […]

The letter: Brief overview of the current challenges for Social Democracy in Lithuania

November 24, 2017 Gediminas Kirkilas 0

The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) is the longest-existing political party in Lithuania, founded in 1896. It was involved in preparing and adopting the Act of Independence of Lithuania on February 16, 1918 as well […]

Seimas proposes 44 names for ‘Magnitsky list’

November 23, 2017 BNS 0

The Lithuanian parliament adopted on Thursday a resolution suggesting 44 names for inclusion in the so-called Sergei Magnitsky list of people to be barred from entering the country. […]