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It may not be that the largest budget is the deciding factor for a successful election campaign, however it remains an important factor in many cases. The ban on business contributions to campaigns has significantly changed the budgetary landscape, but parties still retain opportunities to benefit f...
Former acting Chairman for the Liberal Movement Antanas Guoga has shared his predictions on the possible outcomes of the imminent Seimas elections and his future plans.
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office has appealed a ruling in the Labour Party's fraudulent bookkeeping case to the Supreme Court and asked it to send the case back to the Court of Appeals Court re-examination.
A new poll has revealed surprising shifts in Lithuania's political landscape with government parties' support slumping.
The Vilnius Tax Inspectorate has filed an appeal against a court ruling in the Labour Party's case, asking the Supreme Court to order the guilty persons to pay more than €174,000 euros in unpaid taxes.
The Lithuanian Liberal Movement has dissociated itself from the support given by the leader of the European Parliament's Liberal Bloc (ALDE), Guy Verhofstadt, to Lithuanian Labour Party founder Viktor Uspaskich, saying it was his personal opinion and not the stance of the political group.
Most observers reckon that, after the Seimas elections, the nucleus of the ruling coalition will be made up of Social Democrats and Liberals, with Ramūnas Karbauskas’s Peasant and Green party and other independent parties contributing to the coalition as well.
It took almost 10 years for a court's decision regarding the Labour Party's fraudulent bookkeeping in 2004-2006 to come into effect. However, the Vilnius circuit court's altered decision regarding the sentence for Viktor Uspaskich, the party's disgraced founder, raised a storm of commentary. Few see...
With the Court of Appeals' decision to overturn prison sentences for the Labour Party's fraudulent bookkeeping, talk has returned to the possibility of the party making a real comeback. The court's decision was favourable for the Labour Party, but I doubt they can seriously aim for a victory in the ...
It still pays to defraud, steal and avoid taxes in Lithuania, the country's President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Monday, commenting on the Court of Appeals verdict in the Labour Party's fraudulent bookkeeping case.
Viktor Uspaskich, a member of the European Parliament and founder of Lithuania's Labour Party, has been cleared of tax avoidance charges by the Lithuanian Court of Appeals which overturned a previous prison sentence imposed on the politician. He will still have to pay a fine of €6,800 for hiding inc...
The Lithuanian Court of Appeals is to hand down a ruling in the Labour Party's bookkeeping fraud case on Monday, paving way for the verdict in the case to take effect.
The Labour Party and Order and Justice, two members of Lithuania's current ruling coalition, are parties whose political fortunes are headed for decline, according to analysts.
Social democratic and liberal members of the European Parliament are the most productive Lithuanian delegates, according to mepranking.eu, a website analysing the record of MEPs.
Labour Party leader, MEP Valentinas Mazuronis said he has no intention of withdrawing from the party leader‘s position until after parliamentary elections.
With less than a year left until the Seimas (parliament) elections, the Labour Party is not planning to ask Loreta Graužinienė to leave the Seimas speaker‘s position. However, not only the opposition, but some MPs from the ruling coalition are dissatisfied with the politician.
Viktor Uspaskich, a Lithuanian member of the European Parliament and the founder of the Labour Party, has announced he is leaving the party.
MEP Viktor Uspaskich, the founder and de facto leader of Lithuania's Labour Party, has criticized fellow party member Loreta Graužinienė, the speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, for her "passivity", warning that "life does not end in the Seimas speaker chair" in reference to Graužinienė's future p...
Prosecutor Saulius Verseckas of the Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office said at the Court of Appeals on Thursday that the Labour Party's founder MEP Viktor Uspaskich should be sentenced to six years, while MP Vytautas Gapšys and Marina Liutkevičienė should receive respective conditional sentences...
