Politics of Lithuania takes place in a framework of a unitary semi-presidential representative democratic republic,whereby the president of Lithuania is the head of state and the prime minister of Lithuania is the head of government,and of a multi-party system.
The Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania,or simply the Seimas,is the unicameral legislative body of the Republic of Lithuania. The Seimas constitutes the legislative branch of government in Lithuania,enacting laws and amendments to the Constitution,passing the budget,confirming the Prime Minister and the Government and controlling their activities.
The Homeland Union –Lithuanian Christian Democrats,also known colloquially simply as the Conservatives,is a centre-right political party in Lithuania. It has 18,000 members and 50 of 141 seats in the Seimas. Its current leader is Gabrielius Landsbergis,who replaced Andrius Kubilius in 2015. It is a member of the European People's Party (EPP) and the International Democrat Union (IDU).
Laima Liucija Andrikienė is a Lithuanian politician serving as member of the European Court of Auditors since November 2022.
Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 10 October 2004,with a second round on 24 October 2004 in the constituencies where no candidate won a majority in the first round of voting. All 141 seats in the Seimas were up for election;71 in single-seat constituencies elected by majority vote and the remaining 70 in a nationwide constituency based on proportional representation.
Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 12 October 2008,with a second round on 26 October in the constituencies where no candidate won a majority in the first round of voting. All 141 seats in the Seimas were up for election;71 in single-seat constituencies elected by majority vote and the remaining 70 in a nationwide constituency based on proportional representation. Together with the elections,a referendum on extending the operation of Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant was held.
The Government of Lithuania,officially the Government of the Republic of Lithuania,is the cabinet of Lithuania,exercising executive power in the country. Among other responsibilities,it executes laws and resolutions of the parliament,the Seimas,and the decrees of the President,manages state property and,together with the president,executes the foreign policy of the country. The Government also has the right of legislative initiative,puts together the state budget and presents it to the Seimas for approval.
Liberals' Movement,abbreviated to LS,is a conservative-liberal political party in Lithuania.
Emanuelis Zingeris is a Lithuanian philologist,museum director,politician,signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania,currently serving as a Member of the Seimas,chairman of its foreign affairs committee,Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and President of the Parliamentary Forum of the Community of Democracies. A Lithuanian Jew,he has been director of the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum,honorary chairman of Lithuania's Jewish community,and is Chairman of the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania. He is a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism,that proposed the establishment of the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism.
Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 8 October 2000. All 141 seats in the Seimas were up for election,71 of them in single-seat constituencies based on first-past-the-post voting;the remaining 70,in a nationwide constituency based on proportional representation. Altogether,around 700 candidates competed in the single-seat constituencies,while over 1,100 candidates were included in the electoral lists for the nationwide constituency.
Audronius Ažubalis is a Lithuanian journalist and politician,serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania from 2010 to 2012. He was a member of the Seimas 1996–2000,and was elected again in 2004. He has chaired the foreign affairs committee of the Seimas. Ažubalis represents the Homeland Union –Lithuanian Christian Democrats,Lithuania's conservative party and part of the European People's Party.
Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 14 October 2012,with a second round on 28 October in the constituencies where no candidate won a majority in the first round of voting. All 141 seats in the Seimas were up for election;71 in single-seat constituencies elected by majority vote and the remaining 70 in a nationwide constituency based on proportional representation. Together with the elections,a referendum on the construction of a new nuclear power plant was held.
The Second Kubilius Cabinet was the 15th cabinet of Lithuania since 1990. It consisted of the Prime Minister and 13 government ministers.
Petras Auštrevičius is a Lithuanian liberal politician,diplomat,civil society activist,former member of Seimas,and since 2014,a member of the European Parliament.
Gabrielius Landsbergis is a Lithuanian politician,Minister of Foreign Affairs in the 18th Government of the Republic of Lithuania led by the Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė. He is a Member of the Seimas for Centras –Žaliakalnis constituency,and a former member of the European Parliament. He was a member of Group of the European People's Party. Landsbergis was elected as the Chairman of the Homeland Union in 2015. He is credited with modernising the Homeland Union.
The Sixth Seimas of Lithuania was the first parliament (Seimas) elected in Lithuania after it restored independence on 11 March 1990. Elections took place on 25 October 1992,with the second round on 15 November. In a surprisingly decisive outcome,the elections were won by Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania (LDDP),with 73 seats. The result reflected widespread dissatisfaction with the economic situation and the policies of the ruling Sąjūdis political movement in the preceding Supreme Council of Lithuania.
The Tenth Seimas of Lithuania was a parliament (Seimas) elected in Lithuania. Elections took place on 12 October 2008,with the run-off on 26 October. The Seimas commenced its work on 17 November 2008 and served a four-year term,with the last session on 14 November 2012.
The First Kubilius Cabinet was the 10th cabinet of Lithuania since 1990. It consisted of the Prime Minister and 14 government ministers.
Saulius Skvernelis is a Lithuanian politician who served as prime minister of Lithuania between 2016 and 2020. He had previously served as police commissioner,and was Minister of the Interior from 2014 to 2016. Though he was an independent politician,he was backed by the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union and was a member of its parliamentary group until 2022,as a result of which he became the first head of government in European history primarily backed by a green party.
2015 Homeland Union –Lithuanian Christian Democrats leadership election determined the leader of the Homeland Union –Lithuanian Christian Democrats,who will stand as candidate for the office of Prime Minister in the subsequent parliamentary election,which took place on 9 October 2016 and 23 October 2016.
