Uspaskich to run for Vilnius mayor

May 18, 2018 BNS Politics 0
Viktor Uspaskich
DELFI / Rafael Achmedov

The Labor Party’s council is nominating him for the capital’s mayor. “I will definitely run for Vilnius mayor. I hope for success,” he told BNS Lithuania.

Uspaskich founded the Labor Party in 2003. It failed to cross the 5 percent threshold to get into parliament in 2016.

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