Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania –Christian Families Alliance or EAPL–CFA is a political party in Lithuania. It represents the Polish minority and positions itself as Christian-democratic. It has 3 seats in the Seimas,1 seat in the European Parliament and 57 seats in municipal councils after the 2023 local election.
Lithuania does not recognise same-sex marriages or civil unions. A bill to grant same-sex couples some limited legal rights and benefits is pending in the Seimas.
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.
Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen is a Lithuanian politician and chess player who is currently the speaker of the Seimas. Awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2010,she was European women's champion in 2011,and is a two-time Lithuanian champion.
Liberals' Movement,abbreviated to LS,is a conservative-liberal political party in Lithuania.
Ingrida Šimonytė is a Lithuanian politician,public servant and economist who is the 17th and current prime minister of the Republic of Lithuania since 11 December 2020. She has been a Member of the Seimas for the Antakalnis constituency since 2016 and was Minister of Finance in the second Kubilius cabinet from 2009 until 2012. Šimonytėwas a candidate in the 2019 presidential election,but lost in the second round runoff to Gitanas Nausėda. She has been a member of Homeland Union since 2022,having previously been an independent politician.
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 Homeland Union.
Presidential elections were held in Lithuania on 12 May 2019,with a second round held on 26 May 2019. Due to a constitutional limit of two terms in office,incumbent president Dalia Grybauskaitėwas unable to run,having won the 2009 and 2014 elections.
AgnėBilotaitė is a Lithuanian politician from the Homeland Union –Lithuanian Christian Democrats group and has been member of the Seimas since 2008.
Aušra Seibutytė-Maldeikienė is a Lithuanian political economist,politician,lecturer,teacher,publicist and book author.
Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 11 and 25 October 2020 to elect the 141 members of the Seimas. 71 were elected in single-member constituencies using the two-round system,and the remaining 70 in a single nationwide constituency using proportional representation. The first round was held on 11 October and the second round on 25 October.
Arvydas Anušauskas is a Lithuanian politician and historian. He focuses on the history of the interwar Lithuanian secret services,KGB actions in Lithuania,and Soviet repressions in Lithuania. As a member of the Homeland Union –Lithuanian Christian Democrats,he was elected to the Seimas (parliament) in 2008 and reelected in 2012,2016 and 2020.
Monika Navickienė is a Lithuanian politician,a Member of the Seimas for Naujoji Vilnia constituency. She previous was an Executive Secretary of Homeland Union - Lithuanian Christian Democrats from 2013 to 2016. Designate as the Vice Chairwoman of the Homeland Union in 2017.
Jurgita Šiugždinienė is a Lithuanian politician,a Member of the Seimas for Šilainiai constituency and former Kaunas City Councillor.
ŠimonytėCabinet is the 18th cabinet of the national government of the Republic of Lithuania. It consists of the current Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytėwho is the Head of Government,and 14 government ministers from the Homeland Union –Lithuanian Christian Democrats,Liberal Movement of the Republic of Lithuania,Freedom Party.
Simonas Kairys is a Lithuanian politician,former Deputy Mayor of Kaunas City and Kaunas City Councillor.
Kasparas Adomaitis is a Lithuanian politician and Member of the Seimas since 2020.
Kęstutis Navickas is a Lithuanian politician and environmentalist. Navickas served as the Minister of Environment in the Skvernelis Cabinet from 2016 until 2018.
Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius is a Lithuanian liberal politician,Member of the Seimas,and LGBT+ rights activist. Raskevičius holds degrees in political science and law. He is the 2nd openly homosexual member of the Seimas after the late Rokas Žilinskas.
Ignas Vėgėlė is a Lithuanian lawyer and right-wing politician who served as president of the Lithuanian Bar Association from 2014 to 2022,as well as president of the Lithuanian Lawyers' Association from 2013 to 2016. He was a member of the right-wing Christian conservative Lithuanian Christian Democrats from 1994 and served as the party's deputy chairman of the board from 2002 to 2004,and as interim chairman of the board from 2004 to 2006. Upon the party's merger with the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats,he became an independent politician.
