The coalition council on Wednesday discussed Nemunas Dawn leader Remigijus Žemaitaitis’ threat to withdraw from the ruling coalition, Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas has said. Talks will continue as no concrete decision has been taken yet, he said.
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Social Democrat leader Vilija Blinkevičiūtė has called on coalition partners to resolve mutual tensions by a discussion rather than emotional statements and disputes in public.
Organisers of the first rally against the involvement of the Nemunas Dawn party in the ruling coalition are going to stage another protest.
Following parliamentary elections in October, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) on Monday signed a coalition agreement with Democrats For Lithuania and the Nemunas Dawn. The invitation for the Nemunas Dawn to join the coalition has drawn criticism both in Lithuania and abroad.
President Gitanas Nausėda believes that the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) made a mistake by inviting the Nemunas Dawn party, whose leader Remigijus Žemaitaitis is accused of antisemitism, to join the ruling coalition.
Social Democrat Gintautas Paluckas, candidate for prime minister, says he has assured German partners that Lithuania’s future Government and ruling majority will be free of antisemitism. The deputy leader of the Social Democratic Party (LSDP) said he answered all questions concerning the coalition p...
On Friday, 8 November, the Social Democratic Party (LSDP), the Nemunas Dawn and Democrats For Lithuania continued their talks and agreed to form the coalition after October’s parliamentary election. The news agency ELTA has learned from its sources about the would-be distribution of governmental pos...
Social Democratic Party’s (LSDP) prime minister-designate Gintautas Paluckas on Friday announced that a three-party ruling coalition would be created.
Leader of the party Democrats For Lithuania, Saulius Skvernelis, continues to demand that the Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) would not be included in the coalition formed by the Social Democratic Party (LSDP) following parliamentary elections.
Gintautas Paluckas, prime minister-designate of the Social Democratic Party (LSDP), says the next ruling majority can become clear as soon as this Wednesday, after the LSDP ends talks with all the potential partners.
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.