Members of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement‘s Vilnius branch have decided to nominated Remigijus Šimašius, the capital’s current mayor, as their candidate in next year’s mayoral election, giving him the mandate to form a public election committee. […]
Lithuania’s ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union is hot on the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats‘ heels in popularity ratings, a new survey shows. […]
The victory of TS-LKD candidate I. Haase in Zanavykai electoral district has drawn much attention. The victory is impressive in that the “Farmers” diligently sought to win the elections, nominating Minister of Agriculture G. Surplys, […]
Lithuania’s opposition social democrats have suggested keeping the country’s existing level of defense spending at 2 percent GDP and not to increase it. […]
Lithuania’s Labor Party lost almost 2,000 members over the past six months. Meanwhile, the ruling Social Democratic Labor Party of Lithuania and the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union grew (LVŽS), figures from the Ministry of Justice showed on Monday. […]
The Lithuanian parliament on Friday amended a law to provide more time for organizing a referendum. […]
Up to 190 members of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) have joined the Lithuanian Social Democratic Labor Party (LSDDP), a new party founded by a group of breakaway members of the former party, the LSDP leader said on Friday. […]
With the municipal elections drawing closer, Farmer-Greens leader Ramūnas Karbauskis has proposed to allow civic committees to form electoral coalitions with one another and parties. Experts warn that this is a step, which weakens the […]
The Seimas opposition blocked on Thursday the ruling bloc’s unexpected proposal to give the greenlight for the government to borrow money not only for increasing the defense budget, but also for providing funding to the Lithuanian Social Democratic Labor Party (LSDDP). […]
The Lithuanian Seimas is set to launch a new parliamentary investigation into political corruption during the tenure of previous governments. […]
Member of Seimas Stasys Jakeliūnas has taken aim at the cabinet of Andrius Kubilius – at Kubilius himself and Ingrida Šimonytė. However, earlier S. Jakeliūnas was blaming not them, but the previous government – the […]
Conservative Irena Haase entered the second round of the repeat Seimas elections in Šakiai with 35 percent of the vote versus 20 percent of the self-nominated former social democrat Bastys, for whom, after the Constitutional […]
The Lithuanian parliament plans on Thursday to make a final decision on an overhaul of the model of public funding of political parties. […]
While the presidential elections will be held in only May, the unofficial electoral campaign has started. Some politicians have declared their candidacies, others have yet to make their final decision. The number of potential candidates […]
Irena Haase, representing the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, and Mindaugas Bastys, a former social democrat who stood for election as an independent candidate, have gotten into the run-off of a by-election in Lithuania’s Zanavykai constituency, held to fill a vacant parliament seat, according to preliminary data. […]
Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis is currently uncontested and could be reelected as Kaunas city mayor in the first round. Meanwhile, the current situation for the Vilnius and Klaipėda mayors could be made more difficult by […]
The Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) is the only of the major political powers represented in Seimas to not sign the agreement on defence. This step has been met with controversy – criticism has poured […]
The Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday gave the green light for setting up a new commission to investigate unlawful influence on political processes during the tenure of two previous governments. […]
The Conservatives have been offered to use Antanas Guoga as a black horse in the elections, establish links to Naglis Puteikis and Kristupas Krivickas‘ party and non-publically back Remigijus Šimašius and Aušrinė Armonaitė. Such measures […]
The Opposition Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats continues to top Lithuania’s popularity rankings and the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) holds onto its number two spot, according to the latest opinion poll released on Monday. […]
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