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Order and Justice (, TT), formerly the Liberal Democratic Party (''Liberalų Demokratų Partija'', LDP) was a
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in
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that self-identified as " left-of-centre", at least on economic matters. It had eight members in the
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, the
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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 Rolandas Paksas (; born 10 June 1956) is a Lithuanian politician who served as the sixth President of Lithuania from 2003 until his impeachment in April 2004. He previously served two terms as the Prime Minister of Lithuania in 1999 and again ...
as
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within its first year. Paksas's
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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
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and to the presidency. The party sat on the right, possessed a
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and
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identity, and has been described as both
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and ' liberal' or ' right-liberal', in line with its original identity. Its support was strongest in the north-west
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region. The party's two MEPs sat in the
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group in the
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, with the party having previously belonged to the now-defunct
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(UEN) and
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signed an agreement with the chairman of the
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,
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, and former MP Arturas Paulauskas to unite their political movements to form the
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party. Žemaitaitis was later expelled from said party and founded a new party called
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. The party was ofically liquidated in January 2025.


History


Early years (2002–2004)

After being defeated in the leadership election for the Liberal Union,
Rolandas Paksas Rolandas Paksas (; born 10 June 1956) is a Lithuanian politician who served as the sixth President of Lithuania from 2003 until his impeachment in April 2004. He previously served two terms as the Prime Minister of Lithuania in 1999 and again ...
founded the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in 2002, taking with him 13 of his supporters from Liberal parliamentary group in the Seimas, making the party the fourth-largest party. Nationally, founders of the new party were not only Liberal Union's members. It attracted members of
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(e. g. Kęstutis Trečiokas) and
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. Paksas finished second in the first round of the
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on 22 December, with 19.7%: qualifying him for a run-off against
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. For the run-off, Paksas represented a youthful alternative to the ageing candidate, adopting the slogan 'Vote for Change'; despite all the parties except the LDP backing Adamkus, he won across almost all of the country, with 54.7%. The campaign was likened to the previous spring's
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and Paksas to
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for his
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. However, unlike Le Pen, the Paksas immediately announced his support for Lithuania's ongoing process of accession to the
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and
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. In June, 2003, Paksas set about fighting
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that saw 700 public officials under the old administration acquire land illegally. However, this was soon overshadowed by revelations in October that Paksas gave
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to, and heard requests for political favours from,
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, a
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n businessman that had donated $400,000 to Paksas's campaign, and that high-ranking members of Paksas's staff had connections to Russian criminal groups. Although Paksas was found not to have been influenced by the criminals, his staff had been; Paksas offered that his six close advisers named in the report resign, but calls for Paksas himself to resign mounted. Paksas alleged that the parliamentary commission set up to investigate the claims was set up for political reasons, and refused to cooperate. In response, the four other parties (
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,
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,
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and
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) initiated
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proceedings. In December, the
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ruled that granting citizenship to Borisovas was illegal and impeachable. Despite this, Paksas remained popular with the public. On 6 April 2004, the Seimas voted to impeach him and remove him from office on three counts with 86, 86, and 89 MPs voting to impeach, with 85 required. Nonetheless, after his impeachment, he was tried in the criminal courts, and acquitted on all charges. The Constitutional Court found that Paksas shall be precluded for life from being elected as president, as a member of the Seimas and some other high-ranking official positions. Paksas complained against the lifetime duration of the impeachment and filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg). In January 2011 the Court rendered his judgement in favor of Paksas. In spite of the Conventual obligation to fulfill Judgements of the Court and in spite of enforcement proceedings by the Council of Europe the Judgement of the European Court of Human Rights has not been fulfilled. In 2012 Paksas complained to the United Nations Human Rights Committee. In March 2014 the Committee found that the lifelong disqualification from political office violates the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. As of 2018 the violations of Human Rights as found by the European Court of Human Rights and the UN Committee on Human Rights still persist.


Recovery (2004–2006)

Another presidential election was scheduled to elect a replacement for Paksas. The LDP nominated Paksas, giving the people a referendum on his impeachment. Whilst his nomination was initially accepted, it was then thrown out by the Constitutional Court, leaving the LDP without a nominee in the election. In the first election to the
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, the LDP won 6.8% of the vote, and one seat. The member of the
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from the Lithuanian Liberal Democratic party was
Rolandas Pavilionis Rolandas Pavilionis (July 3, 1944 in Šiauliai – May 10, 2006) was a Lithuanian philosopher, politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Liberal Democratic Party; part of the Union for a Europe of Nations. Biography In 1962 P ...
, a former rector of
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. He joined the
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. Throughout Paksas's scandal and impeachment, the Liberal Democrats presented soft opposition to the governing centre-left coalition, alongside the united
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and
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. In the
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in October, the LDP formed a coalition called ''Coalition for Rolandas Paksas 'For Order and Justice' '', which was successful in winning 11 seats. However, the centre-left coalition managed to hold on to power, thanks to a failure of the centre-right parties to agree to cooperate.


Renaming and joining the government (2006–2016)

The congress of the party, held on 13 May 2006, declared, that the party had passed a difficult stage of its establishment successively, encouraging people of Lithuania to constantly oppose corruption and power misapplication in the country and changing the name of the party to 'Order and Justice'. The formal reason for changing the name was the fact that four different political groups used the word 'liberal' in their names. According to unofficial views of some party members, the new name mirrors the party's more conservative position than when it was founded in 2002. In the 2007 municipal elections, although the party was disappointed with the general results, it won a
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in
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, and formed a coalition with the
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(LSDP) under mayor
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. This was despite Law and Order members of the Seimas then supporting
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in several LSDP cabinet members for handling of the
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of Alita. The Order and Justice Party ran in the 2008 election to the Seimas with a tactic of decontaminating Paksas, despite Paksas's inability to hold political office after his impeachment, and released a
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that was shown in cinemas nationwide. Aiming to greatly increase its number of seats and form the new government, the party saw its share of the vote increase only slightly, to 12.7%, and its number of seats increase by 4, to 15. This minor increase was attributed to the rise of the
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, which shared the same electorate as the Order and Justice. The dramatic doubling of the centre-right's share of seats allowed them to form a government: including three parties, but not the Order and Justice. At the
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, the Order and Justice won two seats, up from one in 2004, coming third. After the election, they left the disbanding
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(UEN), and joined the more eurosceptic
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to cooperate in any post-election negotiations. The Order and Justice joined government with these parties, which lasted up until 2016. Following the
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, the Order and Justice MEPs rejoined the EFD group in the European Parliament, which was renamed
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(EFDD) for the new parliamentary term. In October 2016 election, the party fared poorly by getting 8 seats in Seimas. After this result, Rolandas Paksas resigned as party's chairman.


Decline and dissolution (2016–2025)

By the summer of 2018, negotiations started between Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, Social Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania and the Order and Justice considering possible cooperation between them. On September 11, 2018, those parties signed a
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agreement. On May 29, 2019, Social Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania and Order and Justice chairmen
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and
Remigijus Žemaitaitis Remigijus Žemaitaitis (born 30 May 1982) is a Lithuanian far right politician and member of the Seimas. He is the founder and leader of the political party Dawn of Nemunas. Early life Žemaitaitis was born on 30 May 1982 in Šilutė. In 2005, ...
announced to public that talks about expanded coalition between these parties and Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union has started. On June 7, 2019,
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council agreed that party should join these talks, which were concluded on July 5, 2019. New coalition lasted just for two months as the Order and Justice parliamentary group dissolved itself on September 10, 2019, when majority of the Order and Justice parliamentary group's members founded new parliamentary group called "For the Welfare of Lithuania" (which by itself existed up until mid-January 2020). On September 19, 2019, this parliamentary group signed a confidence and supply agreement with coalition's parties. On October 23, 2019, the Order and Justice had been expelled from coalition. By the end of 2018, Rolandas Paksas left the party. By this Order and Justice lost its representative in the European Parliament. In 2019 and 2020 the party lost many notorious members (e. g. Petras Gražulis, Kęstas Komskis) by expulsions or resignations. On September 25, 2019, Remigijus Žemaitaitis proposed formation of new party called "Sovereign Lithuania" or "United Lithuania – Sovereign Lithuania". Prior the 2020 parliamentary election, former party members joined ranks not only in the
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, but also in the
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(e. g. Algimantas Dumbrava) and in the Liberal Movement (e. g. most of
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members along with the mayor, Vaidas Bendaravičius). Party underwent a prolonged disestablishment, partly due to being a defendant in criminal procedings. Almantas Petkus, the former secretary-general lead the party through this time. Finally, the party was convicted for BK 226,
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in November 2023 and ordered to pay around €113 thousand in damages while another €279 thousand were confiscated as ilicit gains. However then the party was subsequently liquidated on 2 January 2025.


Leaders

*
Rolandas Paksas Rolandas Paksas (; born 10 June 1956) is a Lithuanian politician who served as the sixth President of Lithuania from 2003 until his impeachment in April 2004. He previously served two terms as the Prime Minister of Lithuania in 1999 and again ...
(2002–2003 and 2004–2016) * Valentinas Mazuronis (2003–2004) *
Remigijus Žemaitaitis Remigijus Žemaitaitis (born 30 May 1982) is a Lithuanian far right politician and member of the Seimas. He is the founder and leader of the political party Dawn of Nemunas. Early life Žemaitaitis was born on 30 May 1982 in Šilutė. In 2005, ...
(2016–2020) * Almantas Petkus (2020–2024)


Notable members

* Petras Gražulis, a controversial conservative politician, a staunch opponent of the LGBT rights, known for his anti-gay statements *
Juozas Imbrasas Juozas Imbrasas (born 8 January 1941 in Algirdai, Ukmergė district municipality) is the former mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three ...
, former member of the European Parliament and mayor of
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*
Marija Aušrinė Pavilionienė Marija Aušrinė Pavilionienė (born 6 April 1944 in Kaunas, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian philologist, professor, human rights activist, feminist writer and politician. She had been a member of Seimas from 2004 to 2008 as a member of Liberal Demo ...
, a famous Lithuanian feminist and human rights activist, used to be a member of the party *
Rolandas Pavilionis Rolandas Pavilionis (July 3, 1944 in Šiauliai – May 10, 2006) was a Lithuanian philosopher, politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Liberal Democratic Party; part of the Union for a Europe of Nations. Biography In 1962 P ...
(1944–2006), a former dean of
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Elections


Presidential elections

* 2002–3:
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wins election with 54.7% of votes in run-off, after finishing 2nd, with 19.7%, in first round. *
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: Did not enter *
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: Valentinas Mazuronis finishes 3rd, with 6.16%. *
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: Did not enter *
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: Did not enter


Parliamentary elections


European Parliament elections

*
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: 6th, 6.8% of the vote and 1 seat (of 13). *
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: 3rd, 11.9% of the vote and 2 seats (of 12). *
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: 4th, 14.25% of the vote and 2 seats (of 11). *
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: 11th, 2.73% of the vote and did not receive any seats (former party leader
Rolandas Paksas Rolandas Paksas (; born 10 June 1956) is a Lithuanian politician who served as the sixth President of Lithuania from 2003 until his impeachment in April 2004. He previously served two terms as the Prime Minister of Lithuania in 1999 and again ...
ran as an independent and received 4% of the vote).


References


External links

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