On ideas for Lithuania
Let’s talk about ideas. Last week, all were zealous offering their own ideas for Lithuania’s future. One may, of course, raise two questions. Why now? And why is it so important? All the promoters of […]
Let’s talk about ideas. Last week, all were zealous offering their own ideas for Lithuania’s future. One may, of course, raise two questions. Why now? And why is it so important? All the promoters of […]
The Lithuanian Social Democrat Party is soon to be faced with turbulent times. If the party withdraws from the coalition government, Seimas Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis claims that a new group would form from politicians intending […]
Seimas Social Democrat group prefect Andrius Palionis states he believes that the Social Democrats should not withdraw from the coalition. According to a survey done by him, this opinion is held by another 12 of […]
MEP Viktor Uspaskich, the founder of the Labor Party, has announced plans of returning to the party and sent a membership application to the party’s Kėdainiai branch, the Labor Party‘s information center said. […]
Algirdas Brazauskas and Antanas Smetona – are the most valued interwar and contemporary presidents of Lithuania. According to, to the poll on public opinion conducted by the public opinion and market research company “Splinter tyrimai” […]
Lithuanian citizens are usually asked, who they would vote for if the elections would take place in the near future. However, when they’re asked the opposite, which party has no chance and what people have […]
“Everything is created, all you have to do is start working” – says MEP (Member of the European Parliament) Viktor Uspaskich to LRT.lt, who recently announced the establishment of the Association “For a healthy and […]
MG Baltic, one of the biggest business groups in Lithuania, transferred money to bank accounts of a fund and a public establishment linked with the Liberal Movement, not the party’s accounts, after the party’s former Vice-Chairman Gintaras Steponavičius met with MG Baltic representatives, the Prosecutor General’s Office has said. […]
Lithuanian Social Democrats (LSDP) this week for the first time is holding direct elections for their leader. They have needed a change for a while now – and not only because their ratings are plummeting. […]
The Farmer and Greens Union won the Seimas elections by a landslide. A victory or at least good performance was expected, but not to this extent. After the elections the Farmer Greens, unlike other parties, […]
Someone wants to u se the Lithuanian Labour Party of mutual struggles, says the party’s honorary chairman Viktor Uspaskich who has been sentenced for bookkeeping fraud. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday submitted proposed amendments to the Penal Code, suggesting tighter punishments for large-scale tax evasion. […]
During discussions of electoral results it was typically accepted that the results of some parties depend on voter turnout. The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) and Polish Electoral Action in Lithuania (LLRA) were typically identified as such parties; the lower the voter turnout, the better for the Conservatives and Poles. […]
The Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU) has a campaign debt of almost a million euros after the October parliamentary elections, in which the party scored a resounding victory, the daily Lietuvos Rytas reported on Friday, based on data from the Central Electoral Commission. […]
The Lithuanian Labour Party does not consider merger with the ruling Social Democrats or other parties, says the party’s acting leader Vytautas Gapšys. […]
On October 23 voters closed the door on a number of political old guard, the hopes of many who wished to keep their membership in Seimas were broken. The moods of those who failed to be re-elected vary – some intend to savour their freedom, some intend to seek work or spend time with their families. In total there will be 82 new faces in Seimas, 5 of them returning after a break. 59 members of Seimas were re-elected, but a large number of the old guard will be gone. […]
Early voting is starting on Wednesday in municipalities and special post offices in the 2nd round of parliamentary elections of Lithuania, with two candidates competing in 68 single-member districts after securing the highest number of votes in the 1st round. Three new MPs were elected in the 1st round. […]
Epilogue no. 2 and prologue no. 1 to the coming four years: single-mandate lottery in the second round and a coalition. Ligitas Kernagis who failed to obtain a mandate in this election once sang “Ratings, ratings, ratings everywhere, single-mandate in hand, money elsewhere”. We will not be talking about money in this article because much has already been said while analysing the financial declarations of candidates. Today we speak of that which everyone is concerned with – who will win the second round and form the coalition government. […]
Though the number of Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrat (TS-LKD) and Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LVŽS) candidates entering the second round of elections is roughly equal, some specialists believe there is little to […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s Labour Party group is summoning Chief of Defence Jonas Vytautas Žukas on Wednesday over the costly public procurement for the Armed Forces. […]
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