The ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party was triumphant in the country's first direct mayoral elections, show preliminary data published by the Central Electoral Commission.
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After local elections in Lithuania last Sunday, the new Vilnius City Municipality Council will include 38 male and 12 female councillors. The Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania and the Russian Alliance Block of Valdemar Tomaševski delegated four women, the Liberal Movement, three, the Homeland U...
The Liberal Movement has improved its position in terms of the number of council seats following the Sunday local elections in Lithuania, compared to the last municipal elections in 2011.
Lithuania's ruling Social Democratic Party won the highest number of votes in the elections to local governments overall on Sunday, but are behind right-wing parties in the country's largest cities, according to preliminary election results published early on Monday.
Lithuanian MEP Valentinas Mazuronis said on Tuesday that he was no longer a member of the Order and Justice party, part of the ruling coalition in Lithuania.
The ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party continues topping popularity polls, shows a survey published by DELFI.
The Liberal Movement of Lithuania can boast its most impressive and sustainable rating leap, say political experts referring to sociological research.
A few months ago, the Lithuanian Parliament (Seimas) began a debate on forming a new permanent committee on emigration.
The Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas, is to be proposed to establish a temporary inquiry commission in the spring session to investigate accusations hurled against Lithuania over its participation in the CIA prisoner exchange and secret imprisonment operations.
MP Andrius Mazuronis, son of MEP Valentinas Mazuronis, has announced about his decision to leave the parliamentary group of the party Order and Justice.
Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD), the eurosceptic political group in the European Parliament, has distanced itself from suggestions that it might have something to do with books smearing Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė that were distributed to all EP members last month.
According to the Central Electoral Commission (VRK), 23 political parties intend to participate in the municipal elections on 1 March 2015. The deadline to submit application documents to the VRK was Monday, 29 December.
Lithuanian State Security Department chief Gediminas Grina told parliament on Tuesday he could not give any new answers about the US Central Intelligence Agency's secret prisons.
Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says that parliament will not consider amendments to the Criminal Code during the parliament's current session. The Order and Justice party has proposed reducing liability for trading in influence.
The Seimas of Lithuania decided on Tuesday to summon the head of the country's State Security Department, Gediminas Grina, over suspicions that a secret CIA prison, mentioned in the recently-published US Senate's report on detention and torture of suspected terrorists, could have operated in Lithuan...
Lithuania's Prosecutor General Darius Valys on Tuesday asked parliament to strip MP Rimas Antanas Ručys (Order and Justice party) of his legal immunity to face prosecution for allegedly taking a bribe.
It is often said that politicians make for strange bedfellows. Moreover, people are judged by the friends or partners they have in life. In that light, one really should question Rolandas Paksas’ judgement when he invited UKIP’s Nigel Farage to his Order and Justice party congress in Vilnius.
Lithuania's ruling Social Democratic Party remains the most popular political party in the country, although its rating has fallen somewhat, according to a Vilmorus opinion poll released by the daily Lietuvos Rytas on Saturday.
Lithuania's ruling Order and Justice Party is summoning the State Security Department's chief Gediminas Grina before parliament to give an explanation about the US Central Intelligence Agency's “violet” detention site near Vilnius mentioned in the US Senate's report.
Lithuania's ruling Order and Justice party on Saturday re-elected MEP Rolandas Paksas as its leader for a two-year term.
