Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen says that the parliamentary opposition is manipulating the verdict of the Court of Appeal in the so-called MG Baltic case to harm both the Liberal Movement and the ruling majority.
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Lithuanian teachers are fed up with low salaries that do not reflect the level of difficulty of their work, large numbers of children in classrooms, bureaucratic tasks, and heavy workloads. They have taken drastic measures to demand better conditions, such as climbing through windows of the Ministry...
Members of the ruling Liberal Movement are electing a new leader on 4-8 September, with the incumbent chair, Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, facing a challenge from three candidates.
The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) would secure the most votes in parliamentary elections, a poll published by the daily Lietuvos rytas indicates. The Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrat party (TS-LKD) meanwhile dropped from the second to fourth spot in one month.
The Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrat party (TS-LKD) is still the most popular in Lithuania, but the approval rating of the Government has decreased, shows the latest poll commissioned by the news website Delfi.
Three right-wing parties, the winners of Lithuania's recent parliament election, are set to sign a coalition agreement on Monday. BNS provides a review of its key points.
The Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats, the Liberal Movement and the Freedom Party on Thursday plan to start drafting a program for their planned center-right government coalition.
The Lithuanian parliament voted on Tuesday to give a renewed mandate to Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis' reshuffled Cabinet.
Lithuanian MP Ausrine Armonaite, Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Simasius and their supporters established a new liberal party, the Freedom Party, on Saturday.
