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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.

Gintautas Paluckas, the leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, will try to persuade the party's rebellious members to reconsider their position and obey the party's decision to avoid expulsion from the organization over signing an agreement with the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Un...

After Lithuania reaches 2 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) for defense next year, the defense funding should no longer be increased, with money directed towards reduction of social exclusion, says Gintautas Paluckas, the leader of the Social Democratic Party.

Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says he would offer the post of social security and labor minister to the Social Democrats, if the party's leader Gintautas Paluckas sought to fill it.

Lithuania's Economy Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius, a member of the Social Democratic Party (LSDP), on Wednesday urged the party to decide whether it can continue working in municipal coalitions with the Liberal Movement and the Labor Party that last week faced corruption suspicions.

The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party's (LSDP) ethics commission and its presidium will discuss the behavior of the party's lawmakers who signed a deal with the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) despite the party's decision to withdraw from the ruling coalition, LSDP Chairman Gintautas Pal...

Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has described as a rational step the decision taken by the parliamentarians of the Social Democratic Party to sign a coalition agreement with the Farmers and Greens Union against the party's will.

The political group of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, which has left the ruling coalition, will sign a cooperation agreement with the ruling Farmers and Green Union's MPs.

The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party's decision to exit the coalition with the Farmers and Greens Union is short-sighted, and their argumentation is based on demagogy, says Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis.

The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party on Saturday decided to withdraw from the ruling coalition with the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU).

The presidium of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) decided on Thursday not to give the green light for the party's lawmakers to sign a deal on joint work with the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Unions (LFGU) until the party's council makes a final decision on whether or not to withdraw fr...

If the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) withdraws from the ruling coalition with the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), its ministers and heads of parliamentary committees should step down too, Lithuania's EU commissioner Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, who is the LSDP's honorary cha...

Lawmakers of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) and the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) expect to start the parliament's fall session on Sunday with an agreement on joint work, despite differences within the LSDP over the future of the government coalition.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party's (LSDP) decision on whether or not to stay in the ruling coalition with the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) will have no major impact on the parliament's work.

Gintautas Paluckas, chairman of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), describes a proposal by Andrius Palionis, head of the LSDP political group in the Seimas, to sign a memorandum on cooperation with lawmakers of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) as "a slap in the face".

The political groups of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) and the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) in the Seimas plan to sign a memorandum on cooperation during the parliament's upcoming fall session.