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Liberal Union Of Lithuania
The Liberal Union of Lithuania () was a liberal political party in Lithuania. History The party was founded on the 25th of November, 1990 on a basis of the Vilnius University Liberal Club. Its first leader was Vilnius University philosophy professor Vytautas Radžvilas. In the 1992 parliamentary election, the Liberal Union got 1.51 percent of votes and failed to win any seats. In January 1993 the party congress agreed upon declaration, which stated that the party would position itself on the right. In 1994 the party's membership grew. Most of these new members were either former politicians (e. g. former Moderates Movement's leader Eugenijus Gentvilas) or employees of the infamous investment company. In the 1995 municipal election, the party got 2.69 percent of the votes nationally and 40 councillors. Most of these gains were city districts (e. g. Birštonas, Marijampolė, Klaipėda). After these elections many members of Liberal Union in Kaunas resigned. In 1996 parlia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister Of Lithuania
The prime minister of Lithuania (, , colloquially also referred to as the premier ) is the head of government of Lithuania. The prime minister is appointed by the President of Lithuania, president with the assent of the Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas. The modern office of prime minister was established in 1990, when Lithuania declared its independence, although the official title was "Chairperson of the Council of Ministers" until 25 November 1992. Historically, the title of prime minister was also used between 1918 and 1940. This was during the original Republic of Lithuania, which lasted from the collapse of the Russian Empire until the country's annexation by the Soviet Union. List Republic of Lithuania (1918–1940) Following the 1940 Soviet ultimatum to Lithuania, ultimatum in June 1940, the forces of Soviet Union entered Lithuania, prompting President Antanas Smetona to flee the country. Antanas Merkys, who assumed the position of acting president in accordance with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Center (politics)
Centrism is the range of political ideologies that exist between left-wing politics and right-wing politics on the left–right political spectrum. It is associated with moderate politics, including people who strongly support moderate policies and people who are not strongly aligned with left-wing or right-wing policies. Centrism is commonly associated with liberalism, radical centrism, and agrarianism. Those who identify as centrist support gradual political change, often through a welfare state with moderate redistributive policies. Though its placement is widely accepted in political science, radical groups that oppose centrist ideologies may sometimes describe them as leftist or rightist. Centrist parties typically hold the middle position between major left-wing and right-wing parties, though in some cases they will hold the left-leaning or right-leaning vote if there are no viable parties in the given direction. Centrist parties in multi-party systems hold a strong posi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaunas
Kaunas (; ) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius, the fourth largest List of cities in the Baltic states by population, city in the Baltic States and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the largest city and the centre of a in the Duchy of Trakai of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Trakai Voivodeship, Trakai Palatinate since 1413. In the Russian Empire, it was the capital of the Kovno Governorate, Kaunas Governorate from 1843 to 1915. During the interwar period, it served as the temporary capital of Lithuania, when Vilnius was Polish–Lithuanian War, seized and controlled by Second Polish Republic, Poland between 1920 and 1939. During that period Kaunas was celebrated for its rich cultural and academic life, fashion, construction of countless Art Deco and Lithuanian National Revival architectural-style buildings as well as popular furniture, interior design of the time, and a widespread café culture. The city in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalia Kutraitė-Giedraitienė
Dalia Kutraitė-Giedraitienė (born 18 April 1952) is a Lithuanian journalist, PR specialist and politician. She studied at the Salomėja-Neris Secondary School in Kaunas, and graduated from Vilnius University in 1975 in journalism. From 1975 to 1988 she was an editor for Lithuanian National Radio and Television. From 1998 to 1999 she was a consultant of the mayor of Vilnius, Rolandas Paksas, and subsequently was given a position in the city government of Vilnius. From 1999 to 2001 she was a member of the Liberal Union of Lithuania and was a member of the Seimas from 9 November 2000 to 27 September 2002, but moved to the Order and Justice Order and Justice (, TT), formerly the Liberal Democratic Party (''Liberalų Demokratų Partija'', LDP) was a right-wing national-conservative political party in Lithuania that self-identified as " left-of-centre", at least on economic matters. It ... party. From 2005 she was Director of "Strateginių komunikacijų centras". She teaches at the D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vidmantas Plečkaitis
Vidmantas Plečkaitis (born 17 February 1957, in Klaipėda, Lithuanian SSR) is a Lithuanian painter, artist, public figure and politician, former vice mayor of city of Klaipėda. Biography *1983, the graduated from the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute, a mechanical engineer. *1997, director of R. Suslavičius food company Klaipeda's branch. 2000-2003 and 2003–2007, the Klaipeda City deputy mayor. From 2007 Klaipeda municipal council secretary. *1993 - member of Liberal Union of Lithuania The Liberal Union of Lithuania () was a liberal political party in Lithuania. History The party was founded on the 25th of November, 1990 on a basis of the Vilnius University Liberal Club. Its first leader was Vilnius University philosophy pro .... 2003 Liberal and Center Union Klaipeda department member, Vice-Chairman. 2006 the Chairman of the Department of Klaipeda Liberal and Center Union. References Lithuanian painters Politicians from Klaipėda 1957 births Living people Lib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuanian Centre Union
The Lithuanian Centre Union, or Centre Union of Lithuania (, LCS), was a liberal political party in Lithuania that existed between 1993 and 2003. History It was established by the centre-fraction in Sąjūdis in 1990 as the Lithuanian Centre Movement. In 1992 parliamentary election the movement failed to pass 4 per cent threshold and won only two seats. In 1993, the movement was reorganised to party. In 1995 municipal elections the party entered many municipal councils and joined coalition with the Homeland Union and the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party. In the 1996 parliamentary election the party won 8.67 per cent of the votes and 14 seats. It signed agreement of confidence and supply with the Homeland Union and the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party. in 1997 presidential election the Centre Union supported Valdas Adamkus, who won election. In the spring of 2000, the Centre Union joined informal alliance between the New Union (Social Liberals), the Liberal Union of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order And Justice
Order and Justice (, TT), formerly the Liberal Democratic Party (''Liberalų Demokratų Partija'', LDP) was a right-wing national-conservative political party in Lithuania that self-identified as " left-of-centre", at least on economic matters. It had eight members in the Seimas, the unicameral Lithuanian parliament, as of the last election it participated in (2016). Formed as the 'Liberal Democratic Party' in 2002, the party achieved almost immediate success with the election of leader Rolandas Paksas as President of Lithuania within its first year. Paksas's impeachment led to the party reorganising itself as 'Order and Justice' to compete in the 2004 parliamentary election. Since then, it was the fourth-largest party in the Seimas, and finished third in the elections to the European Parliament and to the presidency. The party sat on the right, possessed a radical and anti-establishment identity, and has been described as both socially conservative and ' liberal' or ' right ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuanian Peasants Party
The Lithuanian Peasants Party (, LVP) was a political party in Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P .... History The party was established in 1990 as the Lithuanian Peasants Union; it became the Lithuanian Peasants Party in 1994. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1205 It won a single seat in the 1992 elections and managed to retain the seat in 1996 elections. In 1998, the second seat in Seimas was gained after independent MP Ramūnas Karbauskis joined the party and became its chairman. Four seats were gaine in the 2000 elections. In 2001, the party merged with the New Democracy Party to form the Union of Peasants and New Democracy Parties.Nohlen & Stöver, p1205 Election results References {{Authority control ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paksas Cabinet II
The Second Paksas Cabinet was the 11th cabinet of Lithuania since 1990. It consisted of the Prime Minister and 13 government ministers (Ministry of Government Reforms and Municipalities was merged into the Ministry of the Interior at the start of the term). History Rolandas Paksas, the leader of the Liberal Union of Lithuania, was appointed the Prime Minister by President Valdas Adamkus on 27 October 2000, after the elections earlier in October. Paksas had previously headed a Homeland Union government in 1999. The 11th government, consisting of the "New Politics" coalition led by the Liberal Union and the New Union (Social Liberals), received its mandate and started its work on 9 November 2000, after the Seimas gave assent to its program. This government was the first one formed without the Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania or the Homeland Union since 1992. The government served for less than a year before disagreements within the coalition brought it down. By the mid-June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Lithuanian Parliamentary Election
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. Background In 1996 Lithuanian parliamentary election the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Conservatives won 70 seats. They formed a coalition with second-place Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party. By 1998 Lithuania was hit by the 1998 Russian financial crisis, Russian finansial crisis, which (along with the conflicts between ruling coalition, Prime Ministers Gediminas Vagnorius and Rolandas Paksas and President of Republic Valdas Adamkus) caused two replacements of government. Economic turmoil caused decline of support of main par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilnius
Vilnius ( , ) is the capital of and List of cities in Lithuania#Cities, largest city in Lithuania and the List of cities in the Baltic states by population, most-populous city in the Baltic states. The city's estimated January 2025 population was 607,667, and the Vilnius urban area (which extends beyond the city limits) has an estimated population of 747,864. Vilnius is notable for the architecture of its Vilnius Old Town, Old Town, considered one of Europe's largest and best-preserved old towns. The city was declared a World Heritage Site, UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. The architectural style known as Vilnian Baroque is named after the city, which is farthest to the east among Baroque architecture, Baroque cities and the largest such city north of the Alps. The city was noted for its #Demographics, multicultural population during the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, with contemporary sources comparing it to Babylon. Before World War II and The Holocaust in Lithuania, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Union (Social Liberals)
The New Union (Social Liberals) (, NS) was a social-liberal political party in Lithuania. The NS was a member of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR) and an observer of the Liberal International. It was founded in 1998 and is led by Artūras Paulauskas. History Establishment and participation in government (1998–2006) The party was formed in 1998 on a basis of Artūras Paulauskas presidential campaign team. Its policy was based on social liberalism: the principal values of which are personal freedom, social solidarity, welfare of people and justice. In 2000, municipal elections the party won the most seats in municipalities districts' councils. In 2000,it formed a coalition government with the Liberal Union (along with Lithuanian Centre Union and Modern Christian Democrats), but after disagreements between two, in 2001, a new coalition with the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) was formed. Its candidate Vilija Blinkevičiūtė won 16.6% of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
