Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis has announced his decision to represent the opposition Liberal Movement during the upcoming general election.
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Viktoras Pranckietis (born 26 July 1958) is a Lithuanian agronomist and politician. He is currently serving as the Speaker of the Seimas.
As a bid to remove Speaker of the Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis failed on Tuesday, Ramunas Karbauskis, leader of the Lithuanian Farmers and Green Union, acknowledges that it's no longer clear if the ruling parties have a majority.
Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis has survived a second no-confidence vote as members of the ruling block failed to garner the necessary number of votes on Tuesday.
A vote on the removal of Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis failed on Tuesday after only a few MPs attended.
The Board of the Lithuanian Seimas is set to hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday night to discuss the removal of Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis.
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.
Lithuania's former President Dalia Grybauskaite describes the Farmers and Greens Union's pressure on Viktoras Pranckietis to step down as the speaker of the Seimas as "a fiesta of political petty-mindedness".
Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, backs a parliamentary investigation into Russia's influence on the Lithuanian political system and individual politicians.
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".
The ruling parties are putting pressure on Speaker of the Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis, seeking his replacement, Lithuania's President-elect Gitanas Nauseda says.
At the meeting with Moon Hee-sang, Speaker of the National Assembly of South Korea, and the delegation under his leadership, who are paying a visit to Lithuania, Prof. Viktoras Pranckietis, Speaker of the Seimas, said that South Korea was a potential trading partner of Lithuania and noted the object...
In the last 2 years, the number of Lithuanian MPs who declare with which interest groups or lobbyists they meet has doubled. Last year, parliamentarians also announced 1,5 times more meetings than in 2017. These figures are reported in research conducted by Transparency International Lithuania, whic...
There are a lot of competent women in Lithuania who can hold offices of ministers or other important positions, however, women in the Baltic country are not given the opportunity to more actively participate in the process of decision making, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Wednesda...
With a third more civic electoral committees aiming to participate in the municipal elections than during the last, Seimas Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has stated that the conditions for establishing and operating parties should be simplified or made alike those of the committees. Political scientis...
President Dalia Grybauskaitė is refusing to enter a war of words with Seimas Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis, who responded to the president’s New Year’s address, which called to prevent illiteracy and populism to take hold, with criticism.
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.
Seimas National Security and Defence Committee (NSGK) deputy chairwoman Rasa Juknevičienė assures that the heads of the country’s intelligence services – the State Security Department (VSD) and Second Investigation Department (AOTD) – on Wednesday did not present any information linked to potential ...
The striking teachers are awaiting Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis’ apology, but he does not appear intent to do so. The team assembled by the PM, which is preparing a long-term public sector wage payment project features neither striking, nor non-striking teachers. The trade union confederation c...
