ruling coalition

The ruling coalition agreed on three income tax (GPM) rates, including an intermediate rate of 25% for those earning an annual income of more than 36 average wages, Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas has said.

The Nemunas Dawn party has been recently discussing an option of pulling out of the ruling coalition, sources have told ELTA.

Several hundred people rallied outside the Seimas building on Thursday evening for the second time to protest against the Nemunas Dawn in the ruling coalition. The party is led by MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis standing trial for alleged antisemitic statements.

Gintautas Paluckas, the Social Democratic Party’s candidate for prime minister, says his party has already decided on inviting concrete parties to form a ruling coalition, refusing to confirm that invitations have already been sent to potential partners.

Leader of the Nemunas Dawn party Remigijus Žemaitaitis is convinced that a stable ruling coalition will be impossible without his party which expects to have at least 25 seats in the Seimas.

Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė says it is too early to talk about parties that will form the new ruling coalition in the Seimas before the second round takes place.

The Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats, the Liberal Movement and the Freedom Party expect to agree early next week on a document outlining their center-right coalition's top priorities.

The Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats, the Liberal Movement and the Freedom Party on Thursday plan to start drafting a program for their planned center-right government coalition.

A broad ruling coalition could be formed in Lithuania's next parliament to meet the expectations of a wide range of voters, Gabrielius Landsbergis, the leader of the Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats, said on Monday after his party scored a victory in Sunday's first round of the Seimas e...

Gabrielius Landsberis, leader of the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, says he sees a possibility to already now form a nucleus of responsible parties that could form a ruling coalition after the upcoming Seimas election as a counterbalance to populists.

Negotiators from four parliamentary parties in Lithuania, forming a new ruling coalition, will hold a meeting on Wednesday to discuss key tasks until the end of this parliament.

The leaders of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, the Social Democratic Labor Party of Lithuania and the Order and Justice party on Thursday signed a memorandum on a ruling coalition and are waiting for the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Alliance to join.

Aušrinė Armonaitė, Member of the Seimas, claims that the initiative of the Government to reduce the number of Members of the Seimas to 121 is a cheap trick in the presidential election campaign of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union that shakes the very foundations of parliamentarianism and migh...

Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis does not rule out that the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) would hold coalition talks with the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Union of Christian Families amid the lack of formal majority.

Members of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party who obeyed the party's decision to pull out of the ruling coalition with the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union will work in the mixed group at the Lithuanian parliament for now, as they do not have the necessary seven mandates for a new coalition, ...

The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party has expressed support to the 2018 budget draft, regardless of a decision to pull out of the ruling coalition.

Gintautas Paluckas, the leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, will try to persuade the party's rebellious members to reconsider their position and obey the party's decision to avoid expulsion from the organization over signing an agreement with the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Un...

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.

The Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union's (LFGU) leaders say they are confident that Social Democratic lawmakers who have opted to stay in the ruling coalition despite their party's decision to pull out will not backtrack in fear of being expelled from the party.