Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and Ramunas Karbauskis, the Farmers and Greens Union's leader, said on Tuesday that a center-left coalition could be formed after the parliamentary election.
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Ingrida Simonyte, the conservative Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats' lead candidate, was the only party leader to secure an outright victory in single-member constituencies in Sunday's first round of voting.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis will lead the Farmers and Greens Union's candidate list in October's parliamentary election, the ruling party confirmed.
The leader of Lithuania's ruling Farmers and Greens Union expects new taxes on bank assets and major retail chains to be introduced in January and the property tax threshold to be lowered to 150,000 euros.
Lithuania's ruling coalition is ready to support a move to tax banking assets, Ramunas Karbauskis, the leader of the Farmers and Greens Union, the biggest party in the parliament, has said.
Šarūnas Marčiulionis, one of the Lithuanian basketball legends, is to run for a seat in the European Parliament with Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVZS), the party announced last week.
Aušrinė Armonaitė, Member of the Seimas, claims that the initiative of the Government to reduce the number of Members of the Seimas to 121 is a cheap trick in the presidential election campaign of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union that shakes the very foundations of parliamentarianism and migh...
The Lithuanian parliament decided on Feb 14 to hold a referendum to cut size of the country's parliament from 141 to 121.
The Lithuanian Seimas is set to launch a new parliamentary investigation into political corruption during the tenure of previous governments.
The ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) plans to make it mandatory for politicians to declare their meetings with lobbyists.
Giedrius Surplys, until recently Lithuania's deputy interior minister responsible for regional policies, on Tuesday was sworn in as the country's new agriculture minister.
The Social Democratic Labor group in the Lithuanian parliament will propose three candidates to become the country's next justice minister after Milda Vainiūtė resigned on Tuesday.
The political group of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party for now includes both members of the party and those who have been expelled from the party over signing the cooperation agreement with the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union against the party's will.
Foreign vice-ministers Neris Germanas and Darius Skusevičius along with adviser to Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius, Domas Petrulis, last Friday left the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, which has terminated the ruling coalition with the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union.
Eight members of the political group of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party terminated their membership in the party on Saturday, just an hour before the Social Democratic Party's council was planned to consider their expulsion over refusal to obey the party's decision.
After eight long-standing and influential members left the Social Democratic Party on Saturday, the party's leader Gintautas Paluckas said this marked an end of a certain era, bot not drama.
Lithuania's Parliamentary Vice-Speaker Gediminas Kirkilas of the Social Democratic Party says that a moratorium on all recent decisions is the only compromise possible in the clash of the positions of the party and the political group on the party's future in the ruling coalition.
The Lithuanian parliament will Thursday be presented the parliamentary probe into unlawful influence upon politicians, political processes and state institutions, a bid initiated by Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the parliamentary National Security and Defense Committee.