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The Liberal Movement’s leader Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen says she has discussed the contours of potential ruling coalitions with President Gitanas Nausėda. Speaking to reporters after the meeting on Monday afternoon, the current Seimas speaker also revealed that her party has not received an invitati...

The Farmers and Greens (LVŽS) has set up a special working group for coalition talks with the Social Democratic Party (LSDP) that includes neither party leader Ramūnas Karbauskis nor lawyer Ignas Vėgėlė, who won an MP seat after joining the LVŽS’ candidate list.

MEP Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), denies holding coalition talks with the Nemunas Dawn party led by Remigijus Žemaitaitis.

Leader of Democrats For Lithuania, Saulius Skvernelis, argues that the party’s performance in presidential, European and Lithuanian Parliamentary elections this year proved that his party made the right choice a couple of years ago when it split from from the Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS). Democra...

MP Saulius Skvernelis, leader of the party Democrats For Lithuania, assumes that the party the Nemunas Dawn may still change its mind and join a coalition after the second round of parliamentary elections on 27 October.

President Gitanas Nausėda does not think that the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) could form a coalition after elections even if it had more MPs than other parties in the 141-seat parliament.

After the first round of parliamentary elections on 13 October leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) Vilija Blinkevičiūtė stated that her party would form a coalition with Democrats For Lithuania and the Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS). Yet MP Saulius Skvernelis, leader of Democrat...

Parliament Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, leader of the Liberal Movement, thinks that discussions between centre-left parties on the next ruling coalition began prematurely last week and may negatively affect parliament. Lithuania held the first round of 2024 elections to the Seimas on 13 Octobe...

If he had to decide, MP Saulius Skvernelis, leader of the party Democrats For Lithuania, would invite the party the Nemunas Dawn for coalition talks provided that its chairman Remigijus Žemaitaitis changed his heated rhetoric.

Leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), MEP Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, has announced that three parties will form the ruling coalition after parliamentary elections: the LSDP, the Farmers and Greens (LVŽS) and Democrats For Lithuania.

Lithuania held the first round of parliamentary elections on Sunday. Potential coalitions and endorsement of candidates in the second round are currently being considered. On Tuesday afternoon, leader of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) Ramūnas Karbauskis arrived at the Social Democrat...

Saulius Skvernelis, leader of the Democrats For Lithuania, says he is confident Social Democrats, the Liberal Movement and his party would make up the most stable coalition.

Lithuania will elect new parliament on 13 October. Speaking about a potential coalition, deputy chairwoman of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania-Christian Families Alliance (LLRA-KŠS), Rita Tamašunienė, says she cannot imagine a coalition with the Freedom Party.

MP Saulius Skvernelis, leader of the opposition Democrats For Lithuania, says he would like to avoid a coalition with the Farmers and Greens (LVŽS) led by Ramūnas Karbauskis, an „oligarch“ who is not standing for election himself.

Opposition MP Agnė Širinskienė, member of the party the Nemunas Dawn, assumes that the current coalition may attempt to pass the civil union bill this autumn, before parliament’s composition changes after October’s election.

Leader of the Freedom Party Aušrinė Armonaitė says her party would join a coalition that could finalise the civil union bill.

Several political parties and movements are creating a coalition for parliamentary elections in October. These include the Nation and Justice Union (Centrists, Nationalists), the Christian Union, the Lithuania Family Movement and the party the Trade Union Centre.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has doubts about some of the center-right coalition's candidates for ministers, his spokesman said on Tuesday, but gave no names.

Gabrielius Landsbergis, leader of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, plans to lead the party's political group in the new parliament, meaning that he won’t probably assume any ministerial position in the new Cabinet.

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.