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Viktoras Pranckietis (born 26 July 1958) is a Lithuanian agronomist and politician. He is currently serving as the Speaker of the Seimas.
The Lithuanian Liberal Movement, which has been battling a leadership crisis and recently lost state funding over financing violations, is also losing the support of the voters, shows a poll conducted by the market research company RAIT for BNS Lithuania.
The majority of Lithuania's residents are unhappy with the parliament's performance over the first year after the 2016 parliamentary elections, shows a survey conducted by RAIT pollster for BNS news agency.
Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis stated on Monday he saw efforts at the parliament to derail the adoption of the laws that would allow non-Lithuanian letters in first and last names in passports.
The leadership of the Lithuanian Seimas want to call the police to the parliament building in Vilnius over suspicions that MP Linas Balsys is drunk.
Lithuanian politicians will Monday present their initiative of the European Union's (EU) plan of support to Ukraine.
The European Commission remains committed to providing funding for the decommissioning of Lithuania's Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, said after meeting with EU Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger in Vilnius on Thursday.
Guenther Oettinger, the EU commissioner in charge of budget and human resources, is coming to Vilnius on Thursday to discuss the EU's next multiannual financial framework with Lithuania's leaders.
Guenther Oettinger, the EU commissioner in charge of budget and human resources, is to come on a visit to Lithuania on Thursday.
Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis does not rule out that the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) would hold coalition talks with the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Union of Christian Families amid the lack of formal majority.
Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis continues ranking second, after Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė, on the list of the country's most popular politicians in October, shows a poll published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday.
The popularity of Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė saw a slight decline in September from the earlier month, while the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union and the opposition conservatives enjoy roughly the same support among political parties, shows a survey conducted by RAIT pollster...
The dual citizenship referendum will probably be held in conjunction with the presidential elections in 18 months, says Lithuanian Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis' representative.
A delegation headed by Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis was forced to spend the night in Brussels after failing to fit in the airplane of Air Baltic airline. He was scheduled to return to Vilnius on Wednesday.
Lithuania's Parliamentary Vice-Speaker Gediminas Kirkilas of the Social Democratic Party says that a moratorium on all recent decisions is the only compromise possible in the clash of the positions of the party and the political group on the party's future in the ruling coalition.
Lithuanian Transport Minister Rokas Masiulis says that the government, which took office in late 2016, could not have averted a fine of almost 28 million euros that the European Commission imposed on Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, or LG) for breaching the bloc's anti-trust rules.
Lithuania's state-run railway company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (LG) will have to rebuild the dismantled railway stretch to Latvia after the removal caused the European Commission to impose a 28-million-euro fine, says Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis.
The ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) may sign a coalition agreement with the political group of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Union of Christian Families, says Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis.
Thirteen of 19 members of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party's (LSDP) political group in the Seimas supported with their signatures a coalition with the group of the ruling Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), but those who did not back the deal do not plan to leave the LSDP block in the parliament.
Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has described as a rational step the decision taken by the parliamentarians of the Social Democratic Party to sign a coalition agreement with the Farmers and Greens Union against the party's will.
