From doctors to teachers. Against children’s rights protection law changes and for the impeachment of a member of Seimas. The lrt.lt news portal presents protests held in 2018, which drew crowds and caused ripples throughout the public.
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Irena Haase, representing the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, and Mindaugas Bastys, a former social democrat who stood for election as an independent candidate, have gotten into the run-off of a by-election in Lithuania's Zanavykai constituency, held to fill ...
Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission on Tuesday registered six candidates who want to fill a vacant parliament seat.
The Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK) has completed its probe into interest groups' influence on political processes and now asks for permission to declassify the materials of the investigation.
Lithuania's parliament rejected the opposition initiative of early parliamentary elections in the first phase of discussion on Tuesday.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė calls on members of the Seimas to come together for joint work as she does not think that it is possible to hold an early parliamentary election, her adviser said on Tuesday.
Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission on Monday voted unanimously to revoke the mandate of Mindaugas Bastys as a member of the Seimas, with the decision to take effect on Wednesday.
Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission will Monday consider the plea filed by MP Mindaugas Bastys to revoke his mandate.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that all political parties that have seats in the Seimas are to blame for what she describes as an atmosphere of "bickering" in the parliament.
Viktoras Pranckietis says that he has support in the parliament and is not considering stepping down as the speaker of the Seimas, playing down the ruling party leader's hint that he should do so as emotion-driven.
Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), has said that Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, may step down if he is ashamed of some members of the parliament.
Some 5,000 people gathered outside the Lithuanian parliament in Vilnius on Thursday afternoon to express discontent with the failed parliamentary vote to impeach MP Mindaugas Bastys and the performance of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (EU).