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Political scientists say that Saulius Skvernelis, Lithuania's Interior Minister delegated by the party Order and Justice, overreacted when announcing his resignation. Political scientists say that although President Dalia Grybauskaite criticised the minister, she did not send a clear message that he...
Minister of the Interior of Lithuania Saulius Skvernelis is going to meet with Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius on Friday. The meeting will address the interior minister's resignation letter. Skvernelis says the appeal of 75 MPs to the prime minister asking not to approve his resignation is meani...
Seventy-five Lithuanian MPs representing various political groups have addressed Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius urging him not to accept the resignation of Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis.
Recent scandals of alleged corruption surrounding the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (LSDP) should not damage the party's popularity, says Romas Mačiūnas, a sociologist at public opinion and market research company Baltijos Tyrimai. In early October, before the party came into the media attent...
The Lithuanian Parliament has adopted a resolution, proposing to the Government to raise the minimum monthly wage to EUR 437, a 34-percent hike from the current rate of EUR 325.
Representatives of the Order and Justice party, part of the ruling coalition in Lithuania, have proposed to the country's parliament to express its opposition to a permanent mandatory refugee quota system and call on the government to launch consultations with Poland and other Baltic states on the f...
The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday gave its initial backing to a constitutional amendment that will allow Rolandas Paksas, leader of the Order and Justice party, to run for parliament and president.
A fifth of the Lithuanian voters (20.1 percent) would vote for the ruling Social Democratic Party in parliamentary elections, a poll shows, while 12.9 percent would support the Liberal Movement. While the liberals suffered a 3.1-percent drop in ratings month-on-month, they still remain the second mo...
Lithuania's Social Democratic Party has inched down in June while the opposition Liberal Movement continues to strengthen its position, a survey for DELFI has revealed.
A national agreement on emigration, initiated by Lithuania's ruling Order and Justice party, has failed to secure the support of the country's key political parties. Major opposition parties have no plans of signing it, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports.
The State Tax Inspectorate of Lithuania is carrying out several investigations over the tax and property declarations of several high-ranking politicians from the ruling coalition.
Lithuanian MEP Valentinas Mazuronis, formerly a member of the Order and Justice party, was elected as the leader of the Labour Party on Saturday.
Valentinas Mazuronis, who recently joined the Lithuanian Labour Party, left the Euroscpetic group at the European Parliament (EP) to join the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE).
The ruling Social Democratic Party remains the most popular party in Lithuania with 20.7 percent of respondents in a poll saying they would vote for the party if general elections were held soon.
Officers of the Special Investigation Service (STT) carried out a search and seizure at Lithuania's Ministry of Environment on Wednesday. They took computers from the Public Information Project Management Division.
Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis admits that when discussing the improvement of officers' situation at the Cabinet of Ministers, his position is weakened by him not being a member of any party.
Member of Parliament Andrius Mazuronis on Tuesday officially joined the Liberal Movement group in the Seimas, Lithuanian parliament, which now has 12 members.
Lithuania's Seimas on Thursday gave its initial backing to a constitutional amendment that would allow leader of the Order and Justice party Rolandas Paksas who was impeached and removed as president to run for parliament and president.
The Seimas of Lithuania on Tuesday lifted the legal immunity of Order and Justice MP Rimas Antanas Ručys, paving the way for his prosecution in a corruption case, after 78 lawmakers rejected a temporary parliamentary commission's resolution calling for preserving Ručys' immunity.
A hundred Lithuanian MPs have drafted Constitutional amendments that should pave the way for Rolandas Paksas, a member of the ruling Order and Justice party who has been impeached as president in 2004 and banned from running for public office since then, to run for parliament and president again.
