Prior to starting deliberations regarding changes on the number of members of Seimas, Liberal Movement Seimas group prefect Eugenijus Gentvilas presented a resolution to the Seimas “Over the constant attempts to change the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania.” With this, it was proposed to for...
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Gintautas Paluckas, the leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, says he does not fear that the party would split. He spoke in response to the decision taken y breakaway MPs to set up a new political force.
Eight members of the political group of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party terminated their membership in the party on Saturday, just an hour before the Social Democratic Party's council was planned to consider their expulsion over refusal to obey the party's decision.
The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party’s (LSDP) MPs who have opted to continue cooperation with the ruling Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), want the party’s congress to annul the decision by the party’s council to withdraw from the coalition.
Andrius Palionis, deputy chairman of the Seimas' Budget and Finance Committee, has been elected as head of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party's political group in the parliament, the party said.
Leaders of Lithuanian parliamentary political parties on February 10 agreed on closer coordination of efforts to block electricity from a nuclear power plant that Belarus is building in Astravyets, just around 50 kilometers from Vilnius.
The ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union's idea of changing the date of parliamentary elections and curtail the current parliament's term by six months has caused major doubts among other parliamentarians.
Four members of the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) negotiation group released a public statement on Wednesday, right before the signing of the coalition agreement with the Peasant and Greens Union. The statement declares that some of the actions of the party Chairman Algirdas Butkevičius an...
Almost 5,000 legislative bills have been registered at the Lithuanian parliament since it took oath in 2012. A third of them have been proposed by the ruling Social Democratic Party. The opposition says that the governing majority has usurped the legislative process and do not want to discuss their ...
Nine Lithuanian MPs representing the Social Democratic and Liberal party groups have registered a bill to allow same-sex partnership.