The European Parliament will consider Lithuanian prosecutors' request to strip Rolandas Paksas, the Order and Justice party's leader, of his immunity as an MEP.
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Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has appointed Tomas Žilinskas, the director of the Interior Ministry's Public Security Policy Department, as the country's new minister of the interior affairs.
Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has proposed Tomas Žilinskas, an employee of the Interior Ministry, for the post of interior minister.
Order and Justice leader MEP Rolandas Paksas suggested two more candidates for the interior minister's job to Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius on Monday.
The Lithuanian Central Electoral Commission distributed the year's first subsidies – a total of €2.7 million – to nine parties.
Lithuanian Environment Minister Kęstutis Trečiokas remains in his post after the parliament voted on Tuesday his answers to corruption suspicions were satisfactory.
The leader of Lithuania's ruling Order and Justice party, MEP Rolandas Paksas, said on Monday he had proposed three new candidates for the post of interior minister after Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius rejected the candidacy of MP Povilas Gylys.
The Social Democratic party has chosen not to support the Order and Justice party's nomination of Povilas Gylys as a candidate for Minister of the Interior.
The Lithuanian prime minister is meeting with MP Povilas Gylys who has been proposed for the post of minister of the interior on Friday.
Rolandas Paksas, the leader of the Order and Justice party, is presenting candidates to the post of minister of the interior to the for minister on Friday.
Lithuanian prosecutors have asked the European Parliament to lift the legal immunity of Lithuanian MEP and leader of the Order and Justice Party Rolandas Paksas.
The Order and Justice party has at least two candidates in mind for the Interior Minister‘s post after Saulius Skvernelis announced he will be resigning after abandoning his position as an independent to run for the Peasant and Greens Union in upcoming elections.
Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis said on Tuesday he was ready to resign, adding that he felt he was being forced out of the post.
Both the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats and the Labour Party are trying to promote new faces in the run-up to upcoming elections, but political analysts say the Conservatives are suffering from an identity crisis.
As Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis has refused to step down, the prime minister will ask the president to remove him from office, says Rolandas Paksas, leader of the Order and Justice party which nominated the minister to the post.
Lithuania's Social Democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius sees no obstacles for Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis to continue working in his government, despite Skvernelis' recent announcement that he will run for parliament with the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union.
Rolandas Paksas, leader of the Order and Justice party has called on Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis, who they nominated to the post, to step down after announcing his decision to run for the Peasant and Greens Union in upcoming elections yesterday.
With a slow but steady rise in their poll ratings, the Peasant and Greens Union have been seen by analysts as a rising star in Lithuania's politics even before it snatched one of the most sought-after political newcomers, unaffiliated Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis.
The cabinet of Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is approaching the line where half of its original members will have been replaced, necessitating a confirmation vote in parliament.
