Journalist, TV host and public activist Andrius Tapinas has obtained financial reports on expenses at Jonava District Municipal Council and published information about potential misuse of public funds, including suspicious purchases of fuel by multiple councillors.
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The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrat Seimas group is joined by yet another former member of the Farmer-Greens Seimas group – Justas Džiugelis.
After “Farmer” amendments to the children’s rights protection law were not passed by Seimas on Tuesday, “Farmer” leader Ramūnas Karbauskis and Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats representative Monika Navickienė exchanged accusations that the other side is politicking on a sensitive ques...
Minister of Transport and Communications links complaints levied against himself to his dismissal of Arvydas Vaitkus from the Klaipėda State Seaport Directorate.
Sociologists are already looking into scenarios, which could decide choices in the second round of the presidential elections and the leading candidate supporters’ views, as well as how they are distributed based on social and geographic parameters.
Research cornered Kepenis, anti-vaxxers and everyone, who met with antivaxxers on the street, shops and elsewhere. Bed and cards – even Guoga was left empty. Presidential ratings press on Nausėda. But the celebrations of those supporting Šimonytė, who has closed in on Nausėda, may also be premature.
On the day when campaigning was banned in not only the municipal, but also presidential and European Parliament elections, president Dalia Grybauskaitė lashed out against candidate Saulius Skvernelis over his supposed “international shame.”
Based on the ruling parties’ results in the municipal elections, we can predict their potential results in the Seimas elections.
A February Spinter Tyrimai poll showed that if the presidential elections were held this coming Sunday, Lithuanians would send Gitanas Nausėda and Ingrida Šimonytė to the second round, while Saulius Skvernelis would be left out. That said, the ratings list no longer features Visvaldas Matijošaitis, ...
The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) and the Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) remain at the top of party ratings, the most recent Spinter Tyrimai survey shows.
When answering the question on the letter of Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis to the Belarusian Prime Minister, Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Linkevičius said the untruth that the decision to build the Bielorusskaja AES in the Astravyets district was allegedly adopted at the end of 2008, a press r...
The municipal elections brought on few surprises.
On Sunday night, the mayors of all sixty municipalities were revealed: a third of them were elected during the first round, with the rest in the second round. Of the sixty mayors, more than half were re-elected for another term.
On Sunday, the municipal council elections concluded, with Lithuania having decided, who will lead it for the coming four years. That said, in a Monday press conference to discuss the election results, Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science (VU TSPMI) director,...
Discussions in the public sphere and political couloirs testify that Lithuanian political powers have yet to grasp the scale of their loss in the municipal elections. Led by the understandable desire to fight to the end, party politicians seek to glimpse hope and prospects in numbers, thus they inev...
Two leaders are emerging in the newest presidential ratings – Gitanas Nausėda remains first, while Ingrida Šimonytė continues to hold second, while also widening her lead against Saulius Skvernelis. According to political scientists, if we keep in mind the error margin for the research, it is still ...
With the Ministry of Environment remaining without a head for more than three months now, the opposition Social Democratic Seimas group is proposing to legally bind the prime minister to find a minister in 15 days. This has also received support from the Conservatives, however PM Saulius Skvernelis ...
Visvaldas Matijošaitis is celebrating his victory in Kaunas after the first round, however in the other big cities, a fierce struggle over the post of mayor is only beginning.
In the last 2 years, the number of Lithuanian MPs who declare with which interest groups or lobbyists they meet has doubled. Last year, parliamentarians also announced 1,5 times more meetings than in 2017. These figures are reported in research conducted by Transparency International Lithuania, whic...
What can we predict about the nearing presidential and European Parliament elections now that the municipal elections ended?
