Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats
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| Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats Tėvynės sąjunga – Lietuvos krikščionys demokratai |
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| Leader | Andrius Kubilius |
| Founded | May 1993 |
| Headquarters | Vilnius |
| Ideology | Conservatism, liberal conservatism, christian democracy, Lithuanian nationalism |
| Political position | Right wing |
| International affiliation | International Democrat Union |
| European affiliation | European People's Party |
| European Parliament Group | European People's Party |
| Official colours | Blue, green |
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The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (Lithuanian: Tėvynės sąjunga - Lietuvos krikščionys demokratai), before 2008 Homeland Union (Conservatives, Political Prisoners and the Exiled, Christiani Democrats) or TS, is a political party in Lithuania. It was founded in May 1993 by the right wing of the Lithuanian Movement for Restructuring (Sąjūdis), led by the transitional national leader Vytautas Landsbergis. Its current leader is former and now current prime minister Andrius Kubilius.
It is a centre right, conservative, and christian democratic party, and a member of the European People's Party (EPP) and the International Democrat Union (IDU).
In the 1996 national elections it secured 40% of the vote and returned 70 deputies to the Seimas, but in 2001 it was reduced to 8.6% and 9 deputies. After Lithuania's admission to the European Union it elected in the 2004 European Parliamentary Elections two MEPs (one of whom is Dr. Vytautas Landsbergis) who sit in the EPP-ED Group.
At the legislative elections, of 10 October 2004, the party won 14.6% of the popular vote and 25 out of 141 seats.
Until the merger with Union of Political Prisoners and the Exiled and Christianical Democrats (not Lithuanian Christian Democrats) was known just as Homeland Union (Lithuanian Conservatives). The last change of the name was a result of the merger with the Lithuanian National Union on March 11, 2008, and the Lithuanian Christian Democrats on May 17, 2008, after which the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats became Lithuania's largest party with more than 18000 members.
At the legislative elections of 2008 Homeland Union gained 19.69% of the national vote and 45 seats in the Seimas, 20 more than in the elections of 2004, and remained the largest party in Lithuania and became the largest party represented in the Seimas, it has gone on to form a coalition government along with Liberals' Movement of the Republic of Lithuania and National Resurrection Party which gained a combined governmental majority of 72 out of 141 seats in the seimas, with its leader, Andrius Kubilius, becoming Prime minister for a second time.
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