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Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has survived a vote of no-confidence by the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union's political group in the Seimas, and the LFGU group has also changed its position and wants to stay in the ruling majority.
The Lithuanian parliament did not pass a resolution expressing no-confidence in the central bank governor, Vitas Vasiliauskas, on Tuesday.
The council of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) is likely to hold a vote of confidence not only in Ramunas Karbauskis, the ruling party's leader, but also in Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, the party's presidential candidate who failed to make it to a runoff.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says he will resign after failing to get into the presidential runoff but doesn’t rule out the possibility that the ruling majority will remain.
MP Naglis Puteikis says he is considering pulling out of the Lithuanian presidential race, but does not know yet which candidate he will support.
The Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) may quit power if it loses this month's presidential and European Parliament elections, the ruling party's leader said on Thursday.
Lithuanian MP Vytautas Bakas proposes to ban persons linked to the alcohol and tobacco business from owning media outlets.
The ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) in April lost its top position in the popularity rankings to the opposition Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats (HU-LCD), according to the latest opinion poll conducted by Vilmorus and published by the daily Lietuvos Rytas last Saturday...
Social exclusion, emigration, a lack of confidence in one's country, corruption. These and other threats to national security were identified by presidential candidates during a debate held by the Lithuanian public television LRT and the Central Electoral Commission on Thursday.
On Thursday, the Seimas returns to deliberating on the conclusions of the commission on the LRT’s activities. Legislative amendments were to be presented based on the conclusions, however the amendments were prepared without awaiting the conclusions being approved by parliament or a response from th...
Naisių Vasara (Naisiai Summer), a TV series funded by Agrokoncernas, a business group owned by Ramūnas Karbauskis, leader of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS), contains hidden episodes of political advertizing, Lithuania's election watchdog has ruled.
The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) will launch an investigation into whether Lithuanian public institution Pirmoji Kava and production company TV Play did not breach EU financial rules, making contracts on the TV show The Lithuanian Children of the Millennium, the institution said in a letter to ...
Tadas Langaitis of the conservative Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats' political group in the Seimas on Friday announced his decision to resign as a member of the parliament, saying that "it is not possible to work constructively" with the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU...
Officials from the European Broadcasting Union say that the ongoing parliamentary scrutiny of the activities of the Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) may undermine the independence of the public broadcaster.
