Saulius Skvernelis, Ramūnas Karbauskis
Politics

Karbauskis plays down as ’emotions’ PM’s hints about split in Farmers’ Seimas group

Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the Lithuanian Farmers and Green Union (LFGU), has played down as “emotions” Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis‘ hints about a possible split in the ruling party’s political group in the parliament, saying that not a single member of the group currently wants to leave it. […]

Zenonas Vaigauskas
CORPORATE

Electoral system changes on the horizon – will the partisanship purge succeed?

The Seimas has once again brought up the idea to prohibit parties from politicising the Chief Electoral Commission’s (VRK) work. Politicians have pledged to detach from VRK work a number of times already, but this […]

Algirdas Butkevičius, Saulius Skvernelis, Ramūnas Karbauskis
CORPORATE

Four scenarios of the coalition’s future

The ruling coalition partners – the Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) and the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) will most likely continue working together, though their relations will remain turbulent. According to political scientists […]

Algirdas Butkevičius, Ramūnas Karbauskis, Saulius Skvernelis
Politics

SocDems say Farmers have to say if they need them in coalition

The leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) on Monday expressed surprise at Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis‘ remarks that the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) has to rely on the opposition to pass the government’s reforms through the Seimas, saying that it is the LFGU that has to say if they need the Social Democrats as a ruling coalition partner. […]