23 registered Lithuanian political parties have submitted their member lists to the Ministry of Justice by 1 March and will be able to participate in the Seimas elections coming up in October. […]
Lithuania’s ruling coalition says its parties have agreed that the social model liberalizing the labor market should be approved as soon as possible. The issue was discussed at the ruling coalition’s political council on Tuesday. […]
The Board of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania decided on Monday to nominate Juras Požela, 33, for the position of healthcare minister, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, Social Democratic leader, told journalists after the meeting. […]
The Social Democratic Party group on Vilnius Municipality Board have put forward a proposal to collect a pillow tax – a €1 charge for hotel accommodation – which would begin to take effect from 2017. […]
On Tuesday, the Social Democratic party will hold a political council meeting to ascertain whether the Labour Party supports the Government’s decisions regarding teachers’ wages and the social model being considered by the Seimas (parliament). […]
During the last two terms of the Seimas, there have been two political firsts in Lithuania: between 2008-2012, Andrius Kubilius was the first prime minister to remain in his post for his entire term since Lithuania’s independence was regained. Now, the social democrats, who have been behind the government’s wheel for the last four years, have emerged with a strong lead in the polls – also the first time this has happened since independence. […]
Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis, who has seen his approval ratings soar in recent months, has reportedly decided to throw his lot with the Social Democratic Party for the coming general elections this October. […]
The ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party continues to top popularity rankings, despite recent stories of suspected corruption among its ranks, shows a poll commissioned by DELFI. […]
A proper clean-up of the Social Demcratic party following a raft of recent scandals could cost the Social Democrats the upcoming parliamentary elections, according to Vincentas Vobolevičius, the head of politics at ISM University of Management and Economics. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė is fuelling political crises in the country instead of seeking stability and balance, says European Commissioner Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, the honorary chairman of the Social Democratic Party. […]
It is good practice that Lithuanian politicians who have done something wrong are forced out of their ministerial posts, according to political scientist Lauras Bielinis. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius will suggest that Druskininkai Mayor Ričardas Malinauskas, a fellow social democrat, suspend his membership in the party while investigators probe his suspected involvement in a shady construction project. However, Butkevičius does not believe that Malinauskas should resign from the mayor’s post. […]
The opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives) intend to call an extraordinary session of the Seimas (parliament) on February 17 to launch impeachment procedures against Labour Party MP Vytautas Gapšys. […]
Last month, the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats set up new party chapters in Switzerland and the City of London. The conservatives are planning to continue with divisions in the United States and Poland, according to the daily Lietuvos Žinios. […]
Healthcare Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė, who said last Friday she was stepping down over suspected corruption, will submit her letter of resignation after the prime minister comes back from holidays next week. […]
Social Democrat MP Birutė Vėsaitė has shocked the prime minister and her party colleagues by posting comments on Facebook supporting Algirdas Paleckis and saying that the Left needed him, after he announced he was leaving the Socialist People‘s Front. […]
As the general elections approach, Lithuania’s political parties have become acutely aware of fluctuations in their popularity ratings. The social democrats, the biggest party in the current ruling coalition, continue to top survey results, but will that translate into votes and, eventually, into parliamentary seats? […]
Though a wave of discontent spread though the ruling coalition when Minister of Finance Rimantas Šadžius was appointed to be Lithuania’s representative to the EU’s Court of Auditors, it seems like those waves are subsiding. […]
The Lithuanian parliament should adopt a new law, allowing Lithuanian nationals to spell their names using non-Lithuanian characters in ID documents such as passports, in its spring plenary, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said. […]
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