Lithuania’s Social Democratic Party needs to run on a truly social democratic platform, centred around a reformed and fairer tax system and social services in this year’s elections ,according to European Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis. […]
With less than a year left until the Seimas (parliament) elections, the Labour Party is not planning to ask Loreta Graužinienė to leave the Seimas speaker‘s position. However, not only the opposition, but some MPs from the ruling coalition are dissatisfied with the politician. […]
Almost 5,000 legislative bills have been registered at the Lithuanian parliament since it took oath in 2012. A third of them have been proposed by the ruling Social Democratic Party. The opposition says that the governing majority has usurped the legislative process and do not want to discuss their proposals, lzinios.lt reports. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, leader of the Social Democratic Party and currently one of the most popular politicians in Lithuania, says he is not yet thinking about running for president in 2019. […]
Three politicians are in a close battle for the first spot in popularity ratings, a survey by the market and opinion research centre Vilmorus shows. President Dalia Grybauskaitė remains Lithuania’s most popular politician with Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius her runner-up. Saulius Skvernelis, the Minister of the Interior, is a close third. […]
The Council of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania has granted party leader Algirdas Butkevičius more powers in compiling the party list for the 2016 general elections. […]
MPs of the conservative Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) party have asked the Special Investigation Service (STT) and the Public Service Department (VTD) to look into media reports about alleged dubious practices of hiring for government jobs by the Social Democratic Party (LSDP). […]
Five parties would pass the 5-percent threshold and secure seats in the Lithuanian Parliament if elections were to take place in the nearest future, the latest public opinion poll has revealed. […]
Recent scandals of alleged corruption surrounding the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (LSDP) should not damage the party’s popularity, says Romas Mačiūnas, a sociologist at public opinion and market research company Baltijos Tyrimai. In early October, before the party came into the media attention following corruption accusations, the social democrats were supported by a quarter of all voters, a similar number as in September. […]
The Seimas Anti-Corruption Commission, which has been granted an ad hoc investigative powers, will into corruption allegations surrounding social democratic politicians in Druskininkai and also the activities of influential Conservatives and their families. […]
A group of Lithuanian MPs have suggested that parliament should have a say on issues concerning refugee resettlement. Meanwhile the ruling Social Democratic Party has offered a political agreement among Lithuania’s major parties, saying that an issue as sensitive as asylum seekers should not be made the topic for electoral campaigning. […]
Lithuanian political parties received EUR 8.4 million in funds last year, according to the country’s statistics department, Statistics Lithuania. […]
A fifth of the Lithuanian voters (20.1 percent) would vote for the ruling Social Democratic Party in parliamentary elections, a poll shows, while 12.9 percent would support the Liberal Movement. While the liberals suffered a 3.1-percent drop in ratings month-on-month, they still remain the second most popular party in Lithuania. […]
Lithuania’s Social Democratic Party has inched down in June while the opposition Liberal Movement continues to strengthen its position, a survey for DELFI has revealed. […]
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius might run for parliament during the Seimas elections in 2016 and might be nominated by the now-ruling Social Democratic Party of Lithuania in the country’s second-largest city of Kaunas. […]
Vidas Mikalauskas of the ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party won a parliamentary mandate in the single-mandate constituency of Varėna-Eišiškės on Sunday. […]
Vilnius Regional Court on Friday found former Vice Mayor of Vilnius Romas Adomavičius, of the Social Democratic Party, guilty in a corruption case. […]
The Social Democratic Party of Lithuania remains the most popular party in the country, and Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and President Dalia Grybauskaitė have the highest popularity ratings, a survey showed on Saturday. […]
The ruling Social Democratic Party remains the most popular party in Lithuania with 20.7 percent of respondents in a poll saying they would vote for the party if general elections were held soon. […]
The Presidium of Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) has adopted a resolution, pledging to initiate an agreement among Lithuanian parliamentary parties on protection of human rights and freedoms. […]
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