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Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has so far not made mistakes, which would bar his path to the office of president. What is being described as the prime minister’s communication mistakes and nonsense may have not only harmed his image, but also served it, Vladimiras Laučius writes on lrt.lt.
The Eastern Europe Studies Centre organised its fourth Stasys Lozoraitis Annual Lithuanian Foreign Policy Conference, which featured a debate between potential presidential candidates on Lithuania’s position with the European Union resolving fundamental political challenges. The discussion had no la...
The Seimas Committee on Budget and Finance will request President Dalia Grybauskaitė to answer questions on the financial crisis. She will be sent questions about the actions of commercial banks and the Bank of Lithuania by committee chairman Stasys Jakeliūnas. Former Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius...
Gas, electricity and heating prices are rising. After paying up to 20% more for utilities during winter, the people will be electing their new municipal governments already in spring, as well as their representatives to the European Parliament. Lrt.lt questions - will the citizens, especially the “b...
Already prior to September, 17 million euro were earmarked for teachers’ wage raises and at the end of October, the Ministry of Education and Science declared that another 10 million euro was set aside. The teachers are on strike and state they have not noticed this funding despite the ministry shar...
Ingrida Šimonytė and Gitanas Nausėda have decided to participate in the presidential elections. They are in neither the left, nor the right shelf, more uniting than divisive candidates and perhaps they are what Lithuania needs today, Lithuanian Act of Independence signatory Albinas Januška told lrt....
Seeking to resolve a situation they caused themselves in regard to children’s rights protection, lawmakers are once again taking up initiatives, which seem more like the plot of a fairy tale than a well thought out decision, presidential candidate Gitanas Nausėda says in a press release.
Who will win in the elections? The one to post the most entries on social media or the one to shake most hands? This question can be posed to those aiming for the office of head of state with just half a year left to the presidential elections. Communications specialist Arijus Katauskas observes tha...
The campaign for presidential election in Lithuania officially started on Monday with seven candidates already lining up to take a seat from incumbent President Dalia Grybauskaitė.
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says there was a lack of democracy in the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats' primary election, adding that Ingrida Šimonytė was effectively "appointed" as the conservative party's presidential candidate by its top leaders.
Former diplomat Vygaudas Ušackas, who lost in a primary presidential candidate election held by the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats over the past weekend, says he lacked time to boost his reputation among party members.
Lithuania's opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) has picked MP and former Finance Minister Ingrida Šimonytė as the party's presidential candidate in a primary election held over the weekend.
Diplomat Vygaudas Ušackas and MP Ingrida Šimonytė, who are vying with each other for the Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) nomination to run in next year's presidential election, differ in their attitude toward family, with the former tying it to marriage and the latter calling ...
Lithuanian MP Ingrida Šimonytė, representing the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, has risen in the Top-3 of the most popular presidential aspirants, a new survey has revealed.
Faina Kukliansky, chairwoman of the Jewish Community of Lithuania (JCL), on Friday voiced her indignation over remarks by the Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats' (HU-LCD) presidential candidates about Jonas Noreika, a Lithuanian military officer accused by some of collaboration with the N...
In response to criticism from Vygaudas Ušackas over pension cuts, Ingrida Šimonytė reminded her opponent in a presidential primary debate that they both served as ministers in Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius' 2008-2012 government.
