The presidium of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (Conservative) party has approved of the composition of the shadow cabinet offered by the party leader Andrius Kubilius, informs www.delfi.lt. The approved list will be later voted on by the party’s board. According to Kubilius, the shadow …
BNS Lithuania’s Central Electoral Commission this week intends to distribute the budget allocations for parties for the first half of 2013, i.e., nearly 9.5 million litas (EUR 2.8 mln) will be distributed among eight political parties. The opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (Conservatives) …
BNS The Social Democratic Party of Lithuania remains the most popular party in Lithuania and their popularity rating increased even further in a month, a survey shows. According to the survey by public opinion and market research company Vilmorus for the Lietuvos Rytas daily, 29.9 …
The popularity of the ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party has stopped growing, while the support to its coalition partner, the Labor Party, has been shrinking for the second consecutive months, shows a survey published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday. Asked to specify the political …
Is a new power struggle for the leader‘s post to begin in the Conservative ranks after they lost the parliamentary election? Should the hints about attempts to overthrow Andrius Kubilius be taken seriously? Delfi.lt asks. Such questions arose after the meeting of the Party‘s Council …
Lithuania’ opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, who came in second in the recent general elections, will work as the shadow government, the party’s leader and former Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said at a party meeting on Saturday. “We are consistently going towards working …
Conservative MP Arvydas Anusauskas has suggested holding a ceremony at the parliament to mark the start of the most massive deportations from Lithuania. May 22 will mark 65 years since the Stalinist-Communist regime launched the largest-ever deportation of Lithuanians, said Anusauskas, chairman of the parliamentary …
Lithuanian Social Democratic Party would win parliamentary elections in the multi-mandate area if they took place next Sunday, delfi.lt reported on 22 December. 26.4% of the respondents would give their vote to Social Democrats, shows the survey carried out by the public opinion and market …
The Head of the Labour Party Viktor Uspaskich, when assessing the voting in the Seimas that took away his and two of his party members’ legal immunity, on Thursday evening told in Žinių Radijas show Aktualusis Interviu that the social democrat coalition partners voted for …
Edvardas Pocius | The Lithuania Tribune The members of the Seimas have agreed to postpone the vote on parliamentary immunity of the Labour Party members Viktor Uspaskich, Vytautas Gapšys and Vitalija Vonžutaitė. The MPs are suspected to be guilty in the investigation into management of …
Today the Seimas discussed the budget for 2013. It was decided that the budget will be approved on Thursday after 73 MPs voted in favour, 5 against and 49 abstained. The decision to approve the budget on Thursday was supported by the Social Democrats, the …
The future Prime Minister promises that the new government will think about the people rather than indulge in empty talk and no action. According to him the main objective is to increase real incomes and reduce domestic expenditure. The future Prime Minister discussed this issue in …
The elite of Lithuanian politics are claiming unanimously that the goal of this Seimas session is to adopt the laws that ensure the energy independence of Lithuania. But already for a month everybody’s attention has been fixated on the firing of the FCIS directors and …
Andrius Kubilius will try to terminate the selection process of a new head of Financial Crime Investigation Service (FCIS). In the meantime, some members of the parliament Anti-corruption Commission began collecting signatures after nine interpellation questions for the minister of Interior Raimundas Palaitis, IQ.lt portal wrote on …
Despite a request from the Prime Minsiter Andrius Kubilius the Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite refuses do dismiss the Minister of the Interior Raimundas Palaitis. “I think this coalition and the government is able and has to work until the end of the tenure, only seven …
What could trigger the collapse of the “Coalition of Change” that is ruling over Lithuania? Apparently, it could only be destroyed by a tsunami, an earthquake, or the coalition partners’ fight in the Government in plain daylight, Lietuvos rytas daily wrote in its editorial on …
With elections due later this year, Lithuania is experiencing an upsurge of new parties. Saturday, 11th February around 650 people gathered, in Vincas Kudirka square, to protest against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, ACTA. The demonstration organized by the Vilnius Liberal Youth, and the Lithuanian Liberal …
Finance Minister Ingrida Šimonyte attended Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrat party’s council meeting and spared there good words to Conservatives, who allegedly managed to find the most appropriate solutions. The Minister welcomed the fact that the country is ruled by the politicians who are not “wacked”, …
The parties are actively drawing the plans for the coming Seimas (parliament) election campaign. Almost all parties have already chosen or intend to hire public relations companies, delfi.lt wrote on 4 January. Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (HU-LCD) Executive Secretary Raimundas Alekna said the Conservatives had …
2012 will be a typical preelection year for the governing and opositional parties, states political scientist Tomas Janeliūnas, delfi.lt wrote on 9 of January. “It is most likely that all the parties will be concentrated on the autumn election session, including the governing parties. It …
