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Opposition MP Agnė Širinskienė, member of the party the Nemunas Dawn, assumes that the current coalition may attempt to pass the civil union bill this autumn, before parliament’s composition changes after October’s election.

Leader of the Freedom Party Aušrinė Armonaitė says her party would join a coalition that could finalise the civil union bill.

Several political parties and movements are creating a coalition for parliamentary elections in October. These include the Nation and Justice Union (Centrists, Nationalists), the Christian Union, the Lithuania Family Movement and the party the Trade Union Centre.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has doubts about some of the center-right coalition's candidates for ministers, his spokesman said on Tuesday, but gave no names.

Gabrielius Landsbergis, leader of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, plans to lead the party's political group in the new parliament, meaning that he won’t probably assume any ministerial position in the new Cabinet.

Lithuania's center-right parties, which signed a coalition agreement earlier this week, have agreed to nominate Viktorija Cmilyte-Nielsen, leader of the Liberal Movement, for the position of speaker of the country's parliament, the Seimas.

A coalition agreement signed by three Lithuanian center-right parties on Monday is too vague to allow one to imagine what the country will be like in the next four years, the leader of the Farmers and Greens Union, the biggest party in the outgoing parliament, said.

The conservative Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats, the Liberal Movement and the Freedom Party expect to sign a center-right coalition deal next Monday.