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Visvaldas Matijošaitis (born April 14, 1957 in Kaunas) – businessman, mayor of Kaunas.
Research cornered Kepenis, anti-vaxxers and everyone, who met with antivaxxers on the street, shops and elsewhere. Bed and cards – even Guoga was left empty. Presidential ratings press on Nausėda. But the celebrations of those supporting Šimonytė, who has closed in on Nausėda, may also be premature.
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, ...
On Sunday night, the mayors of all sixty municipalities were revealed: a third of them were elected during the first round, with the rest in the second round. Of the sixty mayors, more than half were re-elected for another term.
Discussions in the public sphere and political couloirs testify that Lithuanian political powers have yet to grasp the scale of their loss in the municipal elections. Led by the understandable desire to fight to the end, party politicians seek to glimpse hope and prospects in numbers, thus they inev...
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, who is running for president, presented his vision on Wednesday. Its main accents are social justice and transparency. He also presented certain members of his team.
On Friday Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis visited projects being developed in Kaunas and met with the city Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis. That said, S. Skvernelis denied that the visit to Kaunas was a part of his presidential campaign and evaded responsibility on International Women’s Day regarding...
Visvaldas Matijošaitis is celebrating his victory in Kaunas after the first round, however in the other big cities, a fierce struggle over the post of mayor is only beginning.
“I hope that Kaunas will not declare independence from Lithuania. But such a trend exists looking more broadly at what is happening in Lithuania. The entrenchment of certain groups, which could call themselves parties, committees, parishes or such. In reality, all those committees are small local pa...
On Monday, the composition of municipal councils is beginning to emerge.
The Lithuanian Social Democratic Labour Party could back the presidential bid of Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis if he chose to run for president, however the party is also considering the candidacies of Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius and former Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, ...
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.
Incumbent Kaunas city Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis intends to participate in the springtime Kaunas city mayor elections in a bid for a second term. V. Matijošaitis will also be leading the United Kaunas electoral roll, which is to participate in the elections to Kaunas city council, a press release ...
The Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) Vilnius branch decided on Thursday evening that their candidate to Vilnius mayor would be Virginijus Sinkevičius.
Lithuanian MP Ingrida Šimonytė, representing the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, has risen in the Top-3 of the most popular presidential aspirants, a new survey has revealed.
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is back on the list of the top three potential candidates for next spring's presidential election in Lithuania, according to an opinion poll released by Delfi.lt on Thursday.
