People and Justice Union
Centre Party – Nationalists Centro partija – Tautininkai | |
|---|---|
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| Abbreviation | LCP |
| Chairman | Naglis Puteikis |
| Vice Chairpeople | Albinas Stankus Kristupas Krivickas Rūta Andriuškevičienė |
| Chairman of the Political Council | Kristupas Krivickas |
| Chairwoman of the Board | Rūta Zabielienė |
| Executive Secretary | Aurelija Aleškevičienė |
| Founded | June 1, 2003 |
| Preceded by | Lithuanian Centre Union |
| Headquarters | Kaštonų g. 3, Vilnius, Lithuania |
| Youth wing | Young centrists (Jaunieji centristai) |
| Membership | 3,977 (October 2, 2019 [1] |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre[2] |
| Colours | Yellow, green, red |
| Seimas | 0 / 141
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| European Parliament | 0 / 11
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| Municipal councils | 8 / 1,461
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| Mayors | 0 / 60
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| Website | |
| www | |
The Lithuanian Centre Party (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Centro partija), officially the Centre Party – Nationalists (Lithuanian: Centro partija – Tautininkai) is an agrarian-centrist political party in Lithuania. Since the Seimas elections in 2016, it has been represented in the parliament and has also had representatives at the municipal level.[3] The leader of the party is MP Naglis Puteikis. Its honorary leader was noted Lithuanian philosopher and nationalist thinker Romualdas Ozolas.
In the parliamentary election of 2016, the Lithuanian Centre Party participated in a coalition (Anti-corruption coalition of Kristupas Krivickas and Naglis Puteikis) with the Lithuanian Pensioners' Party and received 6.1% of the popular vote.[4] In the 2019 Lithuanian municipal elections, the Centre Party received 1.25% of votes nationwide and won municipal council seats in Klaipeda, Varena and Alytus (increasing the number of seats from 3 to 8).[5] During the 2019 election to the European Parliament the party received 5.13% of the national vote, but did not receive any representatives in the European Parliament. On October 26, 2019, the Congress of the Lithuanian Centre Party decided to change the official name of the party to the Centre Party "Welfare Lithuania". The party fully supports the welfare state idea of the President of the Republic of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda. In 2020, the party's name was changed again, this time to the Centre Party – Nationalists.
References
- ^ "LIETUVOS RESPUBLIKOSPOLITINIŲ PARTIJŲ SĄRAŠAS" (PDF). tm.lrv.lt. 2020. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
- ^ a b Nordsieck, Wolfram (2020). "Lithuania". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ http://www.ce-review.org/01/9/lithuanianews9.html, http://www.vrk.lt/2007_savivaldybiu_tarybu_rinkimai/en/savivaldybes/rapg_6792.html
- ^ "2016 m. Seimo rinkimų rezultatai - vrk.lt". www.vrk.lt.
- ^ "N. Puteikis: rinkimų lyderė yra Centro partija | Diena.lt". kauno.diena.lt.
