Lithuania's outgoing Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga has called on the Seimas to suspend its work for at least two weeks amid a coronavirus outbreak in the parliamentary group of the Liberal Movement, a member of the new center-right government coalition.
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The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) propose Julius Sabatauskas for vice-speaker of the Seimas after Gintautas Paluckas, the opposition party's chairman, chose not to stand as a candidate for the position.
Lithuania's 2020-2024 parliament has on Friday started working after convening for its first sitting.
Fifty-three Lithuanian MPs have signed a document expressing no-confidence in Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, and calling for his removal from office.
Three new members of the Seimas were sworn in in the parliament on Thursday following last Sunday's by-election in three single-member constituencies.
Ramunas Karbauskis, leader of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, has on Thursday accused Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis of having identified himself with the position and running a "PR campaign".
Lithuania's Constitutional Court on Friday approved for consideration the case of MP Kestutis Pukas charged with sexual harassment.
Gintautas Paluckas, the newly-elected leader of the Social Democratic Party (LSDP), says that the party's political group in the Seimas will support the principles for a reform of universities proposed by a prime minister-appointed working group.
The Lithuanian government on Wednesday voiced its support for a proposal currently under debate in the Seimas to cut the number of seats in the parliament and to hold general elections earlier than in October.
Lithuania should have 121 parliamentarians, says Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis.
Tens of prominent public figures on Thursday called on Lithuania's leaders and heads of parliamentary political parties not to back a proposal to cut the number of seats in the Seimas from 141 to 101, saying that the move, if approved, will lead to worse representation of voters' interests.
The Seimas will next month hold an extraordinary session to pass a framework law on children's rights protection, Rima Baškienė, the deputy speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, confirmed to BNS.
The political group of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU) in the Seimas is united as never before, Ramūnas Karbauskis, its leader, said on Wednesday.
Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), sees a recent scandal surrounding LPGU MP Greta Kildišienė as "the first serious attempt to undermine the government that has been elected by people".
The Seimas will work out a separate law to set out the duties, rights and guarantees of the activities of members of the Lithuanian parliament.
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office has asked the Seimas to lift the legal immunity of two lawmakers -- Mantas Adomėnas of the conservative Homeland Union - Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) and Naglis Puteikis, a member of the Peasant and Green Union's political group in the parliament...
The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrat (TS-LKD) party’s problems have remained throughout the leadership of both Andrius Kubilius and Gabrielius Landsbergis and without changes at the very top leadership the Conservatives will not eradicate their flaws. This is what one of the candidates...
The Lithuanian parliament started on Thursday debates on constitutional amendments aimed at cutting the number of seats in the Seimas from 141 to 101 and moving the date of general elections from October to March.