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A February Spinter Tyrimai poll showed that if the presidential elections were held this coming Sunday, Lithuanians would send Gitanas Nausėda and Ingrida Šimonytė to the second round, while Saulius Skvernelis would be left out. That said, the ratings list no longer features Visvaldas Matijošaitis, ...
The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) and the Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) remain at the top of party ratings, the most recent Spinter Tyrimai survey shows.
Last week, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis announced his presidential bid. This decision has finalised matters on the political stage. Gitanas Nausėda, S. Skvernelis and Ingrida Šimonytė gather 40% of the vote according to surveys. Another 40% of potential voters are undecided and the remaining 20...
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has so far not made mistakes, which would bar his path to the office of president. What is being described as the prime minister’s communication mistakes and nonsense may have not only harmed his image, but also served it, Vladimiras Laučius writes on lrt.lt.
“If the budget is not approved, next year there may be no elections,” Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis stated on Thursday. According to him, this would happen because the Central Electoral Commission would simply not have the funding for the elections. However, political scientists tell ...
Gas, electricity and heating prices are rising. After paying up to 20% more for utilities during winter, the people will be electing their new municipal governments already in spring, as well as their representatives to the European Parliament. Lrt.lt questions - will the citizens, especially the “b...
Vilnius University historian Alfredas Bumblauskas has been named the most influential public figure in Lithuania, according to a survey by Spinter Tyrimai for the delfi.lt news website.
United States President Donald Trump is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday. BNS Lithuania has asked three analysts whether this meeting poses any threat to Lithuania.
United States President Donald Trump used the visit of the three Baltic presidents for domestic politics, however, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia managed to align their interests with those of the White House, political scientists say.
One of Lithuania's most prominent guerrilla leaders, Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, would have turned 100 on Tuesday, and Kęstutis Girnius, philosopher who wrote a book on Guerrilla Fighting in Lithuania, says that the attention given to the personality on the occasion shows an increasingly open appro...
Local Poles and analysts expect a breakthrough in relations between Vilnius and Warsaw after Polish President Andrzej Duda's three-day visit to Lithuania last week.
