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. […]
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. […]
On Monday the winner of this year’s Seimas election, the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LVŽS) and the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) worked on merging their programmes and decided on the number of ministries each party can expect in the future cabinet, with 11 going to the LVŽS and three to the LSDP. […]
“The Conservatives could join the coalition only after our negotiations with the Social Democrats, becoming the third member of the coalition. We will not cease negotiations with the Social Democrats for the Conservatives because that […]
The leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, outgoing Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, says he had sensed pressure from President Dalia Grybauskaitė upon voters for more than a year to not support the Social Democrats, accusing her of failing to pass the test of impartiality. […]
Prime Minister candidate for the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LVŽS) Saulius Skvernelis spoke on the Alfa Savaitė show, sharing his thoughts about the party’s position and principal expectations for the future coalition, as well […]
The Peasant and Greens Union is continuing negotiations with the Social Democrat Party. On October 31 the representatives of both parties met in Seimas where they discussed their next steps. Representing the Social Democrats were […]
The Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU) and the Social Democratic Party (LSDP) agreed on Monday to start working on a coalition government programme. […]
The Social Democrats have chosen to begin negotiations on a coalition with the “Peasants.” In the aftermath of all that has been said in the week after the elections it looks logical. You could suspect that both the Conservatives and Social Democrats found it hard to cope with the idea of being the junior, not senior partner in the coalition, however the latter had fewer grudges against the winners. […]
When I go abroad I like to have a chat with taxi drivers – they help better understand the moods of the public. A young taxi driver I met in Warsaw in May this year cursed “I’m emigrating in a month to Norway with my family and won’t return until Jaroslaw Kaczynski is behind bars.” This is how he evaluated the work of the Poland‘s majority government leader. I was reminded of this story when some “Facebook friends,” who are Conservative/Liberal voters from Vilnius spoke of emigration if Ramūnas Karbauskis’ “Peasant Greens” enter government. Karbauskis himself states that the fight with emigration will be his greatest priority Vaidas Beniušis writes in BNS. […]
Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union, says that the party has decided on Saulius Skvernelis, the leader of its election campaign, as the party’s candidate to become the country’s next prime minister, the LRT TV news service reported. […]
If the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LVŽS) formed a coalition government with the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP), it is possible that the latter would disappear as a significant party after next election political […]
So far Ramūnas Karbauskis has been speaking of a broad coalition, with the Conservatives (TS-LKD) sitting on his right and the Social Democrats (LSDP) on his left. However neither of the two veteran parties want […]
The Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), which is set to lead the next coalition government after winning the most seats in parliamentary elections, has set up a working group for consultations with the Social Democrats and the conservative the Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats, with meetings expected to start on Tuesday. […]
Having won the victory in the Seimas election, the Chairman of the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LVŽS) participated in a Delfi press conference on Monday, answering key questions. The LVŽS earned 54 mandates in […]
The Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union continues drawing the red lines after the second round of parliamentary elections, and the conservatives find the negotiating positions unacceptable, Gabrielius Landsbergis, the leader of the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, said after meeting with President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
Former Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrat (TS-LKD) Chairman and former PM Andrius Kubilius identified the main mistake made by the Conservatives which could have hurt the party’s chances in the second round of voting. […]
With the Seimas election having concluded, it is time to sum up the results. The overall victory goes to the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LVŽS) which has earned 54 Seimas seats. Add another two independents, who now associate with the party roll – 56. This is the largest single-party victory based on mandate numbers since the 1996 victory of the Homeland Union of 68 mandates. […]
Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union, sees Saulius Skvernelis, the leader of the party’s election list, or Bronis Ropė, a member of the European Parliament, as the party’s candidate to become the next prime minister. […]
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