Members of Seimas elected 4 deputies for Seimas Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis – two Peasant Greens, one Social Democrat and one Conservative. Algirdas Butkevičius was not among the elected. His candidacy was supported by 66 members of Seimas, with 53 voting against and 14 abstaining. In order for a politician to be elected to the post, the number of votes against and abstaining has to be less than the number of votes for. […]
Viktoras Pranckietis of the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union was elected as Lithuania’s new parliamentary speaker on November 14. […]
Four parliamentary vice-speakers were elected in late hours of Monday in Lithuania, while Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius came some votes short of being elected to the post. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday signed a decree accepting the resignation of Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius‘ government and asking it to continue as a caretaker government until a new Cabinet is formed. […]
Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LPGU) Chairman Ramūnas Karbauskis is attempting to ease the future opposition’s concerns – “controlling” posts in various parliamentary committees and commissions will go specifically to the opposition. Earlier unofficial information […]
The Peasant and Greens Union promises a tax reform. It promises much on paper, but according to some economists, lacks specifics. Prime Minister candidate Saulius Skvernelis has announced that private income tax would rise almost […]
The Lithuanian Peasants and Green Union will propose MPs Rima Baškienė and Arvydas Nekrošius for parliamentary vice-speakers. […]
The new Seimas term begins on Monday, with the Peasant and Greens fraction claiming to hold almost 60 members of 141. As such its proposals will have to be considered by both its coalition partners […]
Speaking at a Delfi conference, Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LPGU) Chairman Ramūnas Karbauskis has news for citizens, who receive benefits from the state. According to him, the current regulations need to change. […]
Having built a coalition, the “Peasants” and Social Democrats will be forced to seek support from parties that ended up in the opposition in regard to a number of questions. Writing names in non-Lithuanian symbols, […]
Saulius Skvernelis is already being titled as the next Prime Minister, but he assures that the list of candidates for minister posts will only be announced when he is confirmed as head of the cabinet […]
The winner of Parliamentary elections in Lithuania, Peasant and Greens Union, together with their coalition partner, Social Democratic Party, aims to erase Energy Ministry from Lithuanian political landscape. […]
The Social Democrats may propose their candidates for other ministries than just the ones currently assigned to them during the current negotiations says Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LPGU) Prime Minister candidate Saulius Skvernelis. The […]
The leader of the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LPGU) Ramūnas Karbauskis appears to intend a serious rework of state domestic politics. The leader of the currently strongest party in Seimas has already spoken up about the need for key changes in the relationship between Seimas and the cabinet. What will R. Karbauskis’ new doctrine look like and what could it mean for Lithuania? […]
Reform of the social model is vital, Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius restated a few times at the final meeting of the 2012-2016 parliament on Thursday. […]
Saulius Skvernelis, candidate for Lithuania’s new prime minister, says that no major tax reforms are planned for the nearest future, however, does not rule out revision of taxes linked with employment income, including the residents’ income tax and social insurance fees. […]
The victory of Donald Trump of the Republicans in the United States presidential election should not change the country’s relations with Lithuania, leaders of the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union that won the recent parliamentary elections told BNS on the morning of November 9. […]
Four members of the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) negotiation group released a public statement on Wednesday, right before the signing of the coalition agreement with the Peasant and Greens Union. The statement declares that some of the actions of the party Chairman Algirdas Butkevičius and the fraction prefect Irena Šiaulienė were not discussed with the negotiation group. […]
The Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LVŽS) and Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) leaders have signed the coalition treaty today. As agreed earlier, the LVŽS will delegate its representatives to the two highest posts after the President – those of Prime Minister and Seimas Speaker. […]
The Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU) and the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) announced that the coalition agreement has been almost reached and will most likely be signed tomorrow, on November 9, the LPGU Chairman Ramūnas Karbauskis announced today. […]
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