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Monday marks a year since the first round of Lithuania's parliamentary elections. BNS provides an overview of the key decisions taken by the new parliament, as well as the scandals it faced and the challenges it will still have to cope with.

The Ethics and Procedures Commission of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party on Saturday proposed expelling ten of the party's members who disobeyed the council's decision to leave the ruling coalition with the Farmers and Greens Union.

Lawmakers of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) propose to allow the use of medicines containing cannabis.

Lithuania's political parties lost 6,386 members since last October, although tendencies over the past few years were opposite, with party membership consistently growing, Lietuvos Žinios daily said on Wednesday.

Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says he would offer the post of social security and labor minister to the Social Democrats, if the party's leader Gintautas Paluckas sought to fill it.

The Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union's (LFGU) leaders say they are confident that Social Democratic lawmakers who have opted to stay in the ruling coalition despite their party's decision to pull out will not backtrack in fear of being expelled from the party.

Lawmakers of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) are initiating an ad-hoc parliamentary inquiry commission to look into why food products sold in Lithuania differ from the same branded goods sold in other EU countries.

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.

In the wake of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) Council's decision to withdraw from the ruling coalition, some of the party's members in high-ranking ministerial positions have handed in their resignations, but others have opted to stay in their posts.

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Monday that he was considering joining the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), the ruling party that delegated him to the post.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Monday that he saw no reason for Social Democratic Economy Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius to step down, despite the Social Democratic Party's decision to withdraw from the ruling coalition.

The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party's (LSDP) ethics commission and its presidium will discuss the behavior of the party's lawmakers who signed a deal with the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) despite the party's decision to withdraw from the ruling coalition, LSDP Chairman Gintautas Pal...

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.

The coalition agreement between political groups of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union and the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party has already been signed and is effective, says Farmers leader Ramūnas Karbauskis.

The political group of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, which has left the ruling coalition, will sign a cooperation agreement with the ruling Farmers and Green Union's MPs.

After the Social Democratic Party's council on Saturday decided to leave the ruling coalition with the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis decided to call off his plans to visit Georgia.

The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party's decision to exit the coalition with the Farmers and Greens Union is short-sighted, and their argumentation is based on demagogy, says Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis.

Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius stated on 23 September he wanted to stay on as the country's diplomacy chief and would leave the Social democratic Party that had moved to leave the ruling coalition with the Farmers and Greens Union.