Labour Party

The Labour Party’s council convened on Tuesday and appointed Rolandas Janickas as the acting chairman of the party. He heads the Labour Party’s branch in Ukmergė.

Former MEP Viktor Uspaskich, who has returned as the Labour Party’s chairman, will lead a coalition of three parties in Lithuanian parliamentary elections this October.

MPs Andrius Mazuronis and Valentinas Bukauskas, who had left the Labour Party’s political group, on Thursday joined the political group of the Lithuanian Regions’ Party.

Former MEP Viktoras Uspaskich, honorary chair of the Labour Party, is returning to lead the party for a definite time, the party’s ruling body announced Tuesday.

MP Valdemaras Valkiūnas has decided to withdraw from the Labour Party’s political group in the Seimas, which has led to its collapse as it no longer has at least 7 members.

MP Valentinas Bukauskas, interim leader of the Labour Party, has been elected as chair of the party’s group in the Seimas. In the role, he succeeds Viktoras Fiodorovas, who has recently left both the office and the party.

More details have emerged about law enforcement’s raid at the Labour Party’s headquarters. The Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) has announced that it is investigating misappropriation of property and document forgery.

Law enforcement officers visited the Labour Party’s headquarters on Tuesday and left with a pile of documents. Its Chairman Andrius Mazuronis says the investigation is linked to the previous leadership’s activities in the European Parliament.

The Labour Party on Monday nominated its leader Andrius Mazuronis as a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, which will take place on 12 May.

Labour Party’s leader Andrius Mazuronis believes that moving production of Ukrainian drones to Lithuania is a national security interest. According to him, this would create infrastructure for the production of modern drones in Lithuania and ensure that Russia would not be able to destroy the factor...

Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė has rejected President Gitanas Nausėda’s recent statements suggesting a possible collusion between the Conservatives and the Labour Party in MP Vytautas Gapšys’ impeachment vote as unfounded allegations.

The Seimas’ opposition Democrats For Lithuania group has started collecting signatures calling for a snap election after MPs on Thursday failed to impeach the Labour Party’s MP Vytautas Gapšys jailed for corruption.

Conservative leader Gabrielius Landsbergis says he is not shocked by the failed impeachment of MP Vytautas Gapšys, but admits he expected a different outcome.

The Seimas has decided not to strip MP Vytautas Gapšys of his mandate despite his jail sentence for corruption.

Petras Gražulis, who has just lost his parliamentary mandate, says the Seimas’ decision has not come as a surprise to him. The politician now plans to focus on elections to the European Parliament due in May next year.

The Seimas on Monday voted to impeach MP Petras Gražulis after the Constitutional Court ruled he violated the Constitution and breached his oath. This means Gražulis has been banned from running for an MP for ten years.

Raimundas Kurlianskis will continue to serve his prison sentence separately from Eligijus Masiulis and Vytautas Gapšys, all of them convicted of corruption offences in the MG Baltic case.

Three men on Friday arrived to serve their prison sentences after the court found them guilty of corruption and influence-peddling in the so-called MG Baltic case earlier this week, police say.

President Gitanas Nausėda calls on politicians to refrain from commenting about the ruling of the Court of Appeal in the political corruption case involving several politicians, parties and MG Baltic company group.

On Wednesday, the Court of Appeal handed out a ruling in the political corruption case involving former vice president of MG Baltic company group Raimondas Kurlianskis and former leader of the Liberal Movement Eligijus Masiulis. The Court of Appeal has overturned the ruling of the court of first ins...