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Lithuania: Foreign Minister Landsbergis withdraws

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Published: October 29th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Vilija Blinkeviciute, leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), greets the media and supporters during a postelection event. Voting in the second round of parliamentary elections in Lithuania has concluded. Early results from the vote count show the opposition Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) in the lead.
The election winner in Lithuania: Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, leader of the Social Democratic Party, wants to form a center-left alliance.

Lithuania is on the brink of a change of power. Following the clear success of the opposition Social Democrats in the parliamentary elections, their party leader Vilija Blinkevičiūtė wants to form a center-left alliance. Gabrielius Landsbergis, leader of Lithuania’s conservative party and the country’s foreign minister, announced his intention to take a political break following his party’s defeat in the second round of the parliamentary elections on Sunday.

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