Farmers and Greens

On Thursday, the Farmers and Greens (LVŽS) political group elected Aušrinė Norkienė as its chairwoman. She headed it in the previous term of office as well.

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.

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.

Ramūnas Karbauskis, leader of the opposition Farmers and Greens, says Lithuania’s taxation system is too complex, and residents are unmotivated to pay taxes. The right wing Government’s tax overhaul plan is stalled, leaving potential investors in limbo, he said.

Lawyer Ignas Vėgėlė, one of eight candidates in the 2024 presidential election, has refused financial donations offered by the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens party (LVŽS).

MP Aurelijus Veryga, presidential candidate nominated by the Farmers and Greens (LVŽS), has raised the biggest sum in donations for his campaign so far, almost two months after the presidential election campaign kicked off.

Leader of the Farmers and Greens party (LVŽS) Ramūnas Karbauskis is critical of discussions on universal conscription, he thinks that Lithuania has been ill-prepared for it and that the issue is being taken advantage of before numerous elections in 2024.

The Seimas’ opposition Democrats For Lithuania group has started collecting signatures calling for a snap election after MPs on Thursday failed to impeach the Labour Party’s MP Vytautas Gapšys jailed for corruption.

The Seimas on Monday voted to impeach MP Petras Gražulis after the Constitutional Court ruled he violated the Constitution and breached his oath. This means Gražulis has been banned from running for an MP for ten years.

European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius will not lead European Greens in next year’s elections to the European Parliament, Politico has reported.

President Gitanas Nausėda had the highest approval rating of all Lithuanian politicians in November, a poll shows.

Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, longtime favourite in the polls on who would make the best prime minister, has finished second in the latest one. Social Democrat leader Vilija Blinkevičiūtė took a narrow lead, a poll by Spinter for news website delfi.lt finds.

Antanas Kandrotas, who goes by the alias Celofanas (Cellophane), a well-known participant of anti-LGBT protests, has announced that he will run for president in upcoming elections.

Several dozen representatives of the National Association of Parents and Families (NTŠA) on Thursday held a protest against the new life skills programme taught in schools.

The Karbauskis family is the largest landowner in Lithuania, news website 15min.lt reported on Monday.

The Farmers and Greens party (LVŽS) announces it is leaving the national agreement on education policy concluded by six political parties back in 2021.

Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė regrets that some politicians are trying to discredit much debated life skills lessons that are being introduced in schools. She says politicians have turned the new programme into a straw man fallacy before 2024 elections. She also believes that President Gitanas Nau...

President Gitanas Nausėda plans to announce his decision to seek re-election at the end of this year. He says he needs time to decide, assess his health and willingness to continue with politics.

The leader of the opposition Farmers and Greens, Ramūnas Karbauskis, believes the opposition will continue its efforts to interpellate right-wing ministers in the new political season set to start in two weeks. Almost all the ministers in the Cabinet headed by Ingrida Šimonytė deserve this procedure...

Opposition MP Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė of the Farmers and Greens proposes to criminalise incest, including a punishment of up to 6 years imprisonment.