Farmer leader Ramūnas Karbauskis has for a long time been perceived as a politician with a firm hand, whose orders are obeyed without question by his Seimas group members. However, the drama over dismissing Seimas […]
Last week, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis announced his presidential bid. This decision has finalised matters on the political stage. Gitanas Nausėda, S. Skvernelis and Ingrida Šimonytė gather 40% of the vote according to surveys. Another 40% of potential voters are undecided and the remaining 20% is shared by the other candidates. Thus, the number of candidates is growing and the intrigue is rising. How the presidential election campaign will develop and who has the highest chances was discussed by experts on Monday’s LRT Forumas, lrt.lt writes. […]
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has so far not made mistakes, which would bar his path to the office of president. What is being described as the prime minister’s communication mistakes and nonsense may have not only harmed his image, but also served it, Vladimiras Laučius writes on lrt.lt. […]
“If the budget is not approved, next year there may be no elections,” Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis stated on Thursday. According to him, this would happen because the Central Electoral Commission would simply not have the funding for the elections. However, political scientists tell Delfi that elections will happen in all cases but one. However, they note no one would want it. […]
Gas, electricity and heating prices are rising. After paying up to 20% more for utilities during winter, the people will be electing their new municipal governments already in spring, as well as their representatives to the European Parliament. Lrt.lt questions – will the citizens, especially the “bottoms Lithuania”, want to vote for those, who did not stop the price increases? […]
Talking about the past two years of this Seimas term, political scientist Kęstutis Girnius quipped that all we are missing is a Seimas inquiry into Vytautas the Great’s actions following the Battle of Žalgiris. What […]
In a recent article by Kęstutis Girnius, titled “Is there an effort to antagonize the Russian minority of Lithuania?”, the status of national minorities living in Lithuania has again been interpreted in a way that […]
With former diplomat Vygaudas Ušackas announcing his participation in the presidential elections, political scientists lrt.lt has spoken to all agree that Conservative support would raise the politician’s chances to enter the second round of elections, […]
Vilnius University historian Alfredas Bumblauskas has been named the most influential public figure in Lithuania, according to a survey by Spinter Tyrimai for the delfi.lt news website. […]
United States President Donald Trump is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday.
BNS Lithuania has asked three analysts whether this meeting poses any threat to Lithuania. […]
The Seimas National Security and Defence Committee (NSGK) investigation on politicians and business links has reached its conclusion, but doubts are being voiced, whether the material presented by law enforcement to the investigators will help […]
The conflict with President Dalia Grybauskaitė may cost Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis his bid for the post of head of state, Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science docent dr. Kęstutis Girnius says. […]
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and President Dalia Grybauskaitė have come to blows. Their confrontation is already being described by analysts as a war, where no one can predict the victor. This could be a clash […]
United States President Donald Trump used the visit of the three Baltic presidents for domestic politics, however, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia managed to align their interests with those of the White House, political scientists say. […]
MEP Valentinas Mazuronis has stated that the head of state made a mistake by not congratulating Vladimir Putin with his re-election. Most of the world, including Western, leaders have done so, even if not immediately. […]
Economist Gitanas Nausėda is rapidly climbing the presidential ratings lists – so far interviewed Lithuanian citizens would most often prefer to see him as Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s successor. However, political scientist Kęstutis Girnius says that it […]
The political intrigues in Seimas and the vote held on March 13 regarding MP Mindaugas Bastys, who severely breached the Constitution, have been like purgatory: he is leaving Seimas with his head held high and […]
One of Lithuania’s most prominent guerrilla leaders, Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, would have turned 100 on Tuesday, and Kęstutis Girnius, philosopher who wrote a book on Guerrilla Fighting in Lithuania, says that the attention given to the personality on the occasion shows an increasingly open approach of the nation towards the country’s history. […]
Local Poles and analysts expect a breakthrough in relations between Vilnius and Warsaw after Polish President Andrzej Duda‘s three-day visit to Lithuania last week. […]
I am truly unwilling to divide and split Lithuanian citizens celebrating the centenary of re-established statehood into reliable and less reliable, patriots and idiots in the antique sense of the word, however you split yourselves […]
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