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Gintautas Paluckas, the leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, says he does not fear that the party would split. He spoke in response to the decision taken y breakaway MPs to set up a new political force.

A group of Lithuanian parliamentarians who left the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party a few weeks ago have announced establishing a new Social Democratic force with their former allies.

Members of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party who obeyed the party's decision to pull out of the ruling coalition with the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union will work in the mixed group at the Lithuanian parliament for now, as they do not have the necessary seven mandates for a new coalition, ...

The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party has expressed support to the 2018 budget draft, regardless of a decision to pull out of the ruling coalition.

The political group of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party for now includes both members of the party and those who have been expelled from the party over signing the cooperation agreement with the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union against the party's will.

The statements by the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party's leader Gintautas Paluckas about the end of the old era with exit of a few influential veterans overestimate his potential, says reviewer Kęstutis Girnius.

Eight members of the political group of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party terminated their membership in the party on Saturday, just an hour before the Social Democratic Party's council was planned to consider their expulsion over refusal to obey the party's decision.

After eight long-standing and influential members left the Social Democratic Party on Saturday, the party's leader Gintautas Paluckas said this marked an end of a certain era, bot not drama.

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.

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.

The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party’s (LSDP) MPs who have opted to continue cooperation with the ruling Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), want the party’s congress to annul the decision by the party’s council to withdraw from the coalition.

The Social Democrats will not sign a cooperation agreement with the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), the senior partner in the ruling coalition, before their presidium takes a decision on this, Gediminas Kirkilas, deputy chairman of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), said on F...

Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, and his Ukrainian counterpart discussed a proposed plan for EU financial aid for Ukraine, dubbed as "the new Marshall plan", as they met in Kiev on Thursday.

Gediminas Kirkilas, vice-chairman of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), is initiating an agreement with the party's senior coalition partner, the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), under which the ruling majority would commit to approving several initiatives put forward by the S...