Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says the decision on Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis and whether or not he will remain in his post will be made after a meeting with Order and Justice party leader Rolandas Paksas.
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Lithuania's Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis has decided to run for parliament in the upcoming elections with the Peasant and Green Union.
While recent corruption scandals are damaging the ruling Social Demcrats’s opinion poll ratings, their coalition partners the Order and Justice party’s ratings seem unaffected by a raft of their own scandals.
Most Lithuanian members of the European Parliament are not planning to run for seats in the national parliament, Seimas, this October. Many are likely to have been deterred by new electoral rules which would automatically deprive elected MPs of their seats in the EP.
While Lithuanian political parties tend to base their political campaigns on short term populist objectives, they mostly come up short when delivering on those pledges, an analysis by political scientists has shown.
Environment Minister Kęstutis Trečiokas, who has been at the centre of a controversy over construction in Druskininkai and the resulting stand-off between Lithuania's president and prime minister, is meeting his party's leadership on Monday to discuss his future in the post.
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that a preliminary report from lawyers he received on Wednesday concludes that Environment Minister Kęstutis Trečiokas has not violated any laws. Still, the prime minister says he sees "ethical and moral" missteps on Trečiokas' part, without commenting on whe...
Replacing the government months before general elections would be "irresponsible", Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Wednesday, after the Social Democratic Party had accused her of attempts to overthrow PM Algirdas Butkevičius' cabinet.
Lithuania’s major political parties will work out an agreement to present a unified front opposing the threat posed by the construction of a new Belarus nuclear plant and to send a clear message that electricity from the plant will face restrictions.
Minister of Environment Kęstutis Trečiokas, a member of the Order and Justice party, denied lying in the case surrounding the Government's approval of a raising of restrictions on construction in the resort town of Druskininkai. He said he would not resign from the post.
Lithuania is currently undergoing a “medium-sized” political crisis, according to Lithuanian political scientists and analysts, but one that should not threaten the current Government's and ruling coalition's composition.
Order and Justice party is committing itself to expanding its membership to 20,000 from the current 13,000, said the party‘s leader Rolandas Paksas.
During a congress later in March, Lithuania's Order and Justice party, part of the current ruling coalition, will sign an agreement to unite with various political parties, public committees, non-governmental and public organizations.
Members of the Order and Justice party, part of the ruling coalition party in Lithuania and whose Rolandas Paksas leader has been accused of corruption, held a protest outside the house of Lithuanian state prosecutor, Irmantas Mikelionis, in Vilnius District yesterday.
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that released transcripts of conversations between Environment Minister Kęstutis Trečiokas and Druskininkai mayor cast doubts on his suitability for the post. Trečiokas has responded that he will not step down, while the opposition wants an interpellatio...
23 registered Lithuanian political parties have submitted their member lists to the Ministry of Justice by 1 March and will be able to participate in the Seimas elections coming up in October.
Most observers reckon that, after the Seimas elections, the nucleus of the ruling coalition will be made up of Social Democrats and Liberals, with Ramūnas Karbauskas’s Peasant and Green party and other independent parties contributing to the coalition as well.
Opposition parties at the Lithuanian parliament have called for resignation of Interior Minister Kęstutis Trečiokas due to suspected corruption.
MEP Rolandas Paksas, leader of the Order and Justice party, is suspected of accepting a bribe of €15,000, Lithuanian prosecutors say. Since he is sheltered from prosecution as an elected official, prosecutors are planning to ask the European Parliament to strip the Lithuanian politician of legal imm...
Lithuania's Special Investigation Service (STT) broke the news on Monday that it was investigating suspected influence peddling that involves the leader of a ruling party, the head of a major media group and a grocery supermarket chain. Here are the key facts:
