Most of the charity and support foundations linked to Lithuanian parliamentarians (Seimas members) do not provide public information about their activities, Transparency International Lithuania said.
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Lithuania’s opposition Liberal Movement party is asking President Dalia Grybauskaitė to veto a law on assisted reproduction that was passed by the parliament (Seimas) this week.
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The Liberal Movement, which was Lithuania’s second-most popular party just months ago, is facing the prospect of not crossing the 5% threshold needed to win parliament seats in October’s elections, the latest poll suggests.
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Lithuanian prosecutors have brought additional suspicions against MG Baltic vice-president Raimondas Kurlianskis on Monday – he is suspected of offering a bribe to a Labour Party MP.
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The Liberal Movement‘s ratings nose-dived following revelations that its leader is suspected of bribe-taking and influence peddling. Experts say, however, there is still a chance for Lithuania’s liberals to recover before October’s elections. […]
The so-called black Thursday on May 12, when law enforcement officers carried out searches at the home of the former leader of the Liberal Movement Eligijus Masiulis and allegedly found €106,000 in bribe money, changed […]
During its Saturday convention, the Liberal Movement party elected Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius as it permanent chairman. Eugenijus Gentvilas, Vitalijus Gailius and Sergej Zverev also ran for the position. Gentvilas became the first deputy chairman […]
Officers of the Special Investigation Service (STT) have raided homes and offices of two liberal politicians on Friday as part of a suspected bribery investigation that involved the Liberal Movement party and MG Baltic, one of Lithuania’s biggest business groups. […]
The issues of party funding and transparency in Lithuania can be addressed by learning from successful models in other European countries, according to the acting leader of Lithuania‘s Liberal Movement. “Lithuania needs to use the […]
Judging by the reactions of parties’ chairmen and their members to the cronyism and corruption scandals rocking Lithuania’s political parties, the leaders of Lithuania’s “classical” political parties – the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, the Social Democrats and the Liberal Movement – are rife with Trumpism, argues political observer Arkadijus Vinokuras. […]
Amid an investigation into political corruption suspicions, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is calling on voters not to boycott next October’s general elections. […]
A Vilnius court has rejected the prosecutor’s request to extend the remand of Raimondas Kurlianskis, vice-president of MB Baltic, one of the country’s biggest business groups. […]
A voter survey conducted after the “black Thursday” on May 12 when news broke about bribery suspicions against former Liberal leader Eligijus Masiulis shows that voters have reacted strongly to the “Liberal scandal”. […]
A bit more than four months are left until the Lithuanian parliamentary elections. Recent scandals have rocked the Liberal Movement party’s support, but nearly all parties have recently experienced scandals or missteps that have cast […]
It has emerged that the Special Investigation Service‘s (STT) investigation of former Liberal Movement chairman Eligijus Masiulis and MG Baltic Vice-president Raimondas Kurlianskis for suspected corruption began at least seven months before the suspicions were […]
A Freedom Picnic organized by a journalist Andrius Tapinas drew thousands in Kaunas, and even though it was branded a non-political event and there was no politicking, it drew leading Lithuanian political figures. The Homeland […]
Former Liberal Movement leader Eligijus Masiulis has been questioned by prosecutors on Tuesday who brought formal suspicions of influence peddling and unlawful enrichment against the politician. Masiulis rejects the charges. […]
The charity foundation of Gintaras Steponavičius, deputy chairman of the Liberal Movement, says it will no longer accept any donations from the business group MG Baltic which is involved in the so-called ‘Liberal scandal’. […]
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