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With his party winning the Seimas elections, Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LPGU) Chairman Ramūnas Karbauskis is already thinking about the 2019 municipal elections and hopes to take more than half the municipality leader posts.

Saulius Skvernelis, the candidate to become Lithuania's next prime minister, on Thursday named creating a family-friendly environment, speeding up adoption procedures, combating violence, achieving high living standards in regions and introducing universal military conscription as his priorities.

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.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė Thursday nominate Saulius Skvernelis, the candidate of the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), the party that triumphed in last month's general elections, to be the country's next prime minister and asked the parliament to approve him.

Lithuania's new Seimas formed on Wednesday parliamentary committees, with the Committee on European Affairs remaining the largest one and the Committee on Human Rights and the newly-established Committee on Culture being the smallest ones.

58 year old Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union candidate Viktoras Pranckietis has been elected as the new Seimas Speaker. His candidacy was supported by 93 members of Seimas. His opponent, Liberal Eugenijus Gentvilas received 36 votes.

Lithuania's new parliament on November 15 changed its statute to set up a new Committee on Culture and to abolish the Committee on Information Society Development, with its functions to be transferred to the Committee on Economics.

Viktoras Pranckietis of the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union was elected as Lithuania's new parliamentary speaker on November 14.

Lithuania's new Seimas will have six political groups and a mixed group of parliamentarians who have not joined any of the six groups.

Lithuania's new parliament has the potential of paving way for an entirely new phase of state evolution – transition from still nomenclature political system to a transparent and open parliament that would represent the nation, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said in her congratulatory speech at the fi...

The leader of the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LPGU) Ramūnas Karbauskis appears to intend a serious rework of state domestic politics. The leader of the currently strongest party in Seimas has already spoken up about the need for key changes in the relationship between Seimas and the cabinet...

The Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday voted down a proposal to ban smoking on balconies of multi-apartment buildings.

The Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday started discussions on the Labour Party's proposal to reduce the number of members of the Seimas to 111, from the current 141 members.

The Lithuanian government is planning to dismiss Jonas Milius, director of the State Food and Veterinary Service (SFVS), from the job, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Thursday.

The Lithuanian parliament's Health Affairs Committee on Wednesday decided to suggest that the Seimas supports the veto of President Dalia Grybauskaitė against the Assisted Insemination Law.

The Lithuanian World Community (PLB) has stressed that the votes (or lack of) of the many Lithuanian expatriates could decide up to half of the Seimas’ composition. A PLB announcement urges expatriates to actively register for voting and vote responsibly with the registration deadline tomorrow.