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Incumbent President Gitanas Nausėda has the highest approval rating of all Lithuanian politicians, the latest public opinion poll shows.

It has been proposed holding the next presidential election on 12 May 2024.

Lithuania's center-right parties, which signed a coalition agreement earlier this week, have agreed to nominate Viktorija Cmilyte-Nielsen, leader of the Liberal Movement, for the position of speaker of the country's parliament, the Seimas.

Ramunas Karbauskis, the leader of the ruling Farmers and Greens Union, has confirmed that he offered the backing of his political group to Viktorija Cmilyte-Nielsen if the opposition Liberal Movement's leader agreed to run for speaker of the Seimas.

The Seimas opposition parties – Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD), Liberal Movement (LRLS) and Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) – have agreed on an opposition leader.

A number of opposition Seimas groups with presidential candidate Ingrida Šimonytė at their head at demanding Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius to come provide an explanation on Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis’ “cunning plan” linked to Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant.

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...

Understanding that they may lack votes in Seimas to approve the LRT commission’s conclusions, the “Farmers” are seeking to reach their goals at any cost. According the Liberals, in order to approve the ad hoc commission’s investigation conclusions, the “Farmers” are taking to procedural manipulation...

Partners were deleted from the definition of family members at the Lithuanian parliament following this week's discussions to shift the European Union's (EU) directive to ban discrimination on grounds of citizenship.

Lithuania's opposition Liberal Movement proposes to allow civil partnerships for both unmarried opposite-sex couples and same-sex couples.