While watching the 230 anniversary of the May 3 Constitution at the Lithuanian and Polish parliaments, it was indeed uncomfortable to be seated in front of the television while throughout almost half of the ceremonious […]
The Freedom Party, with its Minister Evelina Dobrovolska at the forefront, will present a project to the Seimas this spring, which could legalise bilingualism in certain regions of the country. The minister says that this […]
The leaders of political parties participated in a sort of lottery – drawing the numbers their parties will be listed by on the electoral ballots. Famous fugitive Neringa Venckienė entered the limelight with this, drawing […]
The defenders of ethnic minorities in Seimas – the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Union (LLRA-KŠS) – entered the 2016 parliamentary elections with a fistful of pledges to care for the […]
Electoral Action of Lithuanian Poles – Christian Families Union (LLRA-KŠS) chairman, MEP Waldemar Tomaszewski says that the party is already preparing for the 2020 Seimas elections and is in the planning phase, but remains reticent […]
“Claiming that this was a sort of oppression of ethnicity, belittling and criticising over ethnicity – that’s incorrect,” signatory and jurist Česlav Okinčic says, Rasuolė Bauraitė wrote in lrytas.lt According to him, we should not […]
The decades-long debate over the spelling of names and surnames in identification documents in Latin letters seems to have no end. When it already seemed that parliament had made progress toward permission to use Latin […]
Took away a gunpowder barrel from beneath the nation’s behind. This was the explanation of Vilnius Mayor R. Šimašius for his decision to secretly strip the Nazi administration official and anti-Soviet post-war resistance figure J. […]
The parties that are forming a ruling coalition announced on June 20 they had concluded negotiations on supposedly the most important factors – programme points. That said, this conclusion is somewhat odd. That is because […]
The proposed National Minority Law can be viewed as a hybrid warfare styled project, whose goal is to cause chaos and disintegration in the state, MP Audronius Ažubalis and linguist Antanas Smetona tell LRT Radio. […]
A year ago citizens elected the new Seimas, driven by great expectations. While the majority talks of a vast number of achievements, their political opponents are sceptical of the things done, Lietuvos Žinios reported. Upon […]
If two years ago someone had said that the Polish Electoral Action in Lithuania – Christian Families Union (LLRA-KŠS) would be lured to participate in forming majorities in both Seimas and the Vilnius municipal council, […]
With the Social Democrat Party branches having begun surveys on the potential to continue working in a coalition with the “Farmers”, rumours appeared that the “Farmers” may have already come to terms with the Polish […]
Over the half year since the Seimas elections, the Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) ranks increased by a little over a hundred new members, however a third of the largest Seimas group remain non-partisan. […]
A part of members of Seimas are considering the possibility to reduce the vote requirement for parties based on ethnic minorities. According to one of the idea‘s backers Andrius Kubilius of the Conservatives, this would […]
Both nations – the Lithuanians and the Polish – both recall well how our mutual conflict in between the two World Wars became a noose on both our necks. Then third parties put in great efforts in “helping” the conflict not reach resolution, but even the conflict itself was complex and difficult. […]
The sort of cooperation found between the Liberal Movement (LS) and Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) during the 2008-2012 term will definitely not be appearing in this Seimas term and such fragmentation will only benefit the ruling coalition states political scientist Vytautas Dumbliauskas. […]
The Liberal Movement has refused to form a fraction coalition in Seimas with the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD). This was confirmed to Delfi by Liberal Movement fraction prefect Eugenijus Gentvilas. […]
Having built a coalition, the “Peasants” and Social Democrats will be forced to seek support from parties that ended up in the opposition in regard to a number of questions. Writing names in non-Lithuanian symbols, […]
The first round of Seimas elections in the single-mandate electoral districts only elected three members of Seimas. The remaining 68 districts will be voting on October 23 in a second round. It will feature the two candidates with the highest vote count in each district. […]
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