Viktoras Pranckietis, Saulius Skvernelis, Ramūnas Karbauskis
CORPORATE

“Farmers” reconsider coalition – Seimas group holds a vote

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis was outraged with the Farmer and Greens Union’s lack of discipline and expressed his dissatisfaction during the Seimas group’s meeting at noon today. […]

Zigmantas Balčytis
European Union

Balčytis giving up MEP mandate

Lithuania’s MEP Zigmantas Balčytis has decided to give up his mandate to pursue an international career, the politician confirmed to BNS. […]

Andrius Kubilius, Rasa Juknevičienė, Vytautas Juozapaitis, Gabrielius Landsbergis
Politics

Conservatives initiating impeachment of SocDem MP Bastys

The opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives) are initiating impeachment of Social Democratic MP Mindaugas Bastys who has not received access to classified information due to his links with the criminal world and representatives of Russian energy companies. […]

Viktoras Pranckietis
Politics

Seimas speaker mentions impeachment for Bastys, PM sees no grounds

Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has said that the parliament might open an impeachment procedure against Social Democratic MP Mindaugas Bastys, if he does not decide to step down from the Seimas leadership and the parliament itself after the State Security Department refused to give him access to classified information due to his personal links with criminal figures and representatives of Russian energy companies. […]

Romas Valentukevičius
Politics

Govt coalition partners back decision to sack official ethics chief

Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas, says that the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) and its ruling coalition partner, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), unanimously approve of his decision to sack Romas Valentukevičius as head of the Chief Official Ethics Commission (VTEK). […]