Former MP Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius will strive to become the leader of the Freedom Party, replacing Aušrinė Armonaitė who has resigned from the position after parliamentary elections.
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The board of the Freedom Party held a meeting on Tuesday and elected Vytautas Mitalas as the acting chairman. An extraordinary convention was also scheduled at the end of November to elect the new chairperson and other governing bodies. The move comes following the resignation of Aušrinė Armonaitė a...
Aušrinė Armonaitė says the Freedom Party has observed a rise in applications to join the party which did not win seats in the first round of elections to the Seimas.
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.
Leader of the Freedom Party, Aušrinė Armonaitė, has voted in advance in 2024 parliamentary elections as have a number of other politicians. She told the media on Wednesday that her party has a clear programme on economics and human rights.
On Monday, 7 October, leader of the Freedom Party Aušrinė Armonaitė met with President Gitanas Nausėda.
On Friday, the Freedom Party held an event in Vilnius to present its 2024 parliamentary election programme. An unruly passer-by threw a beer can at the stage and promptly disrupted the event.
The Parliament of Lithuania, the Seimas, has included the much-debated bill on civil union in its autumn session agenda. President Gitanas Nausėda thinks that this may be the last opportunity for some parties to live up to their promises and implement their election programme. Same-sex partnership i...
Leader of the Freedom Party Aušrinė Armonaitė says her party would join a coalition that could finalise the civil union bill.
Leader of the Freedom Party Aušrinė Armonaitė says her party’s political group would be motivated to endorse any nomination for a European commissioner put forward by the coalition in exchange for the latter’s broader support to the civil union bill.
As a referendum on dual citizenship failed on 12 May, Freedom Party’s leader Aušrinė Armonaitė has called on authorities to suspend revoking passports of Lithuanians who have become citizens of other countries. Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė has in turn assured the media that solutions were...
Public activist and TV host Andrius Tapinas continues his transparency campaign concerning politicians’ expense allowances. After examining spending on expenses by municipal councillors last year, he has moved to checking how members of parliament spend their expense allowances.
MP Marius Matijošaitis of the Freedom Party has suspended his party membership and left the list of candidates for the European Parliament amid reports he used public money to buy computer and audio equipment.
The Freedom Party has officially nominated Dainius Žalimas as its presidential candidate.
On Thursday, 18 January, the Freedom Party announced that it had completed ranking its candidates for the upcoming election to the European Parliament.
The Lithuanian Youth Council wants that in municipal elections the voting age be lowered to 16 years. The Seimas’ liberals think that such age requirement could also apply to the European Parliament (EP) elections. DELFI has organised a discussion on this matter.
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.
Former mayor of Vilnius city, Remigijus Šimašius, will participate in 2024 elections to the European Parliament.
The latest public opinion poll shows growing support for incumbent President Gitanas Nausėda in the 2024 presidential elections. Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė continues to follow, with a similar number of votes as a month before.
If Lithuania held the parliamentary elections on the nearest Sunday, the Social Democratic Party (LSDP) would win most of the votes, the latest survey by Spinter tyrimai for the news website delfi.lt finds.
