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The Chief Official Ethics Commission (VTEK) has held that the president and the ambassador to the UK violated the law on public and private interests by going to the Royal Opera House in London after it found that the visit was private and paid for by the embassy.

The European Union should urgently fulfil its commitments and supply Ukraine with one million artillery pieces, stresses Asta Skaisgirytė, chief foreign affairs adviser to President Gitanas Nausėda.

President Gitanas Nausėda has delegated his chief adviser, Jarek Niewierowicz, to meet with protesting farmers due to his own busy agenda including meetings outside Vilnius.

Latvia’s President Edgars Rinkēvičs on Tuesday met with Lieutenant General Leonids Kalniņš, Commander of the National Armed Forces (NBS), at the Riga Castle, the presidency reports.

The Labour Party on Monday nominated its leader Andrius Mazuronis as a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, which will take place on 12 May.

Mayor of Kazlų Rūda, Mantas Varaška, has decided to withdraw from the 2024 presidential election, complaining about the lack of support from the Lithuanian Regions Party, which had endorsed him at first.

MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis has announced he will run for president despite facing allegations of antisemitism.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, President Gitanas Nausėda met with Christian Sewing, CEO of Germany’s Deutsche Bank, one of the world’s largest financial institutions, the president’s office reports.

President’s chief national security adviser Kęstutis Budrys expects a law on defence and security industry to be adopted in spring. It would ensure more effective cooperation between authorities and defence industry companies, as well as more flexible regulation of these companies.

Former president of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus, who held office in 1998-2003 and 2004-2009, doubts that Donald Trump would win the 2024 United States presidential election.

If incumbent President Gitanas Nausėda faced Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė in the second round of 2024 presidential elections, he would secure a landslide victory, shows a review of two polls published by the news website 15min.lt. The next presidential race will take place in May 2024.

Next presidential elections will be held in Lithuania on 12 May 2024. Parliament passed the decree in question on Thursday with 119 votes in favour, 1 vote against and 1 abstention.

It has transpired that MP Algirdas Butkevičius is one of potential presidential candidates of the party Democrats For Lithuania. He served as Lithuania’s prime minister in 2012-2016. The nomination will be decided by the end of the week.

The latest poll shows that the majority of Lithuanians have the most favourable opinion about incumbent President Gitanas Nausėda.

It has been proposed holding the next presidential election on 12 May 2024.

Alexander Lukashenko cannot be regarded as the legitimate president of Belarus because the presidential election was not free and democratic, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has told foreign media.

All staff members of the Lithuanian presidential office, including President Gitanas Nauseda, are isolating after one staff member had contact with a coronavirus-infected person, Rida Jasulionis, spokesman for the president, told BNS on Friday.

Alma Adamkiene, the wife of Lithuania's former President Valdas Adamkus, is in a stable condition after being hospitalized with symptoms of a stroke on Sunday, the hospital said on Tuesday.

Alma Adamkiene, the wife of Lithuania's former President Valdas Adamkus, has been in intensive care at a Vilnius hospital since Sunday after suffering a stroke, the Lrt.lt online news site reported.

The memory of Lithuania's first President Antanas Smetona should be duly honored in Vilnius, President Gitanas Nauseda says.