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Seimas speaker can resign if he’s ashamed – ruling party leader

Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), has said that Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of…

7 years ago
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Some 5,000 gather in protest rally outside Seimas

Some 5,000 people gathered outside the Lithuanian parliament in Vilnius on Thursday afternoon to express discontent with the failed parliamentary…

7 years ago
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V. Nekrošius: there is no chance of snap Seimas elections

"Not one bit. 85 votes are needed and that's impossible. There's no chance," professor Vytautas Nekrošius thus described the possibility…

7 years ago
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Head of Seimas security panel says to back early election motion

The chairman of the Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defence says that he will support the opposition's proposal…

7 years ago
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Thousands expected to protest in Vilnius against failed impeachment of MP Bastys

Laisvės TV, an online television station set up by journalist Andrius Tapinas, is organizing a protest outside the parliament building…

7 years ago
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President: Broader application of secret voting allows non-transparent deals

Broader application of secret voting facilitates non-transparent deals, says Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė. [...]

7 years ago
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Election of new MP to take place by fall – election watchdog chief

After MP Mindaugas Bastys said he would leave the parliament, new elections in single-mandate district in Zanavykų constituency will take…

7 years ago
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Bastys giving up MP mandate

Mindaugas Bastys on Wednesday announced plans of giving up his MP mandate after surviving an impeachment on Tuesday. [...]

7 years ago
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4 opposition groups want early elections

Four opposition groups of the Lithuanian parliament have suggested holding premature parliamentary elections. [...]

7 years ago
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PM: Bastys’ membership in ruling bloc out of the question

Participation of MP Mindaugas Bastys who survived an impeachment vote on Tuesday in the ruling coalition is out of the…

7 years ago
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Seimas speaker to search for ways to repeat vote on Bastys (Updated)

Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has pledged to seek ways to repeat the vote in the impeachment of MP Mindaugas…

7 years ago
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Karbauskis accuses conservatives for failed Bastys’ impeachment

Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, has accused the opposition conservatives for the parliament's…

7 years ago
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Opposition sees Bastys’ vote as slap for Security Dept, Constitutional Court

The largest opposition groups of the Lithuanian parliament have dismissed the parliamentary vote, which failed to strip MP Mindaugas Bastys…

7 years ago
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Lithuania’s Security Dept satisfied with MP Bastys’ verbal answer on KGB links – lawyer

Officers of the Lithuanian State Security Department were satisfied with a verbal answer from impeached MP Mindaugas Bastys about his…

7 years ago
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MP Bastys mum on joining ruling bloc

Lithuanian MP Mindaugas Bastys who survived an impeachment on Tuesday has not yet said whether he would join the ruling…

7 years ago
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Seimas shamefully discredited itself by keeping Bastys as MP – president

The Lithuanian parliament shamefully discredited itself by keeping the MP mandate for the impeached MP Mindaugas Bastys, says President Dalia…

7 years ago
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MP Bastys survives interpellation

Lithuania's parliament Tuesday came a few votes short of revoking the mandate of MP Mindaugas Bastys for gross violation of…

7 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Ukraine inquires about standards for MPs in Bastys’ case – Constitutional Court president

Ukraine and other countries in Eastern Europe inquire about the standards in connection to MP liability formed by the Lithuanian…

7 years ago
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Seimas spring session: Bastys’ impeachment, LRT probe, public service reform – BNS Review

Lithuania's parliament is starting the spring session on Saturday – the political season is expected to be hot from the…

7 years ago
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Romas Sadauskas-Kvietkevičius. A third of Lithuania – LTSR citizens with Lithuanian Republic passports

I am truly unwilling to divide and split Lithuanian citizens celebrating the centenary of re-established statehood into reliable and less…

7 years ago