Right wing parties join forces

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Right wing parties join forces

May 22, 2008
By Louise O’Dwyer

TEAMING UP: Two of Lithuania’s leading parties joined forces on May 17 to form the most powerful political force in the country.

VILNIUS - A new political force has been created as the Homeland Union and the Christian Democrat parties finally merged together at a joint congress to form what could be the most powerful party in the country. Party leaders Andrius Kubilius and Valentinas Studys signed the merger agreement on May 17. The agreement creates a new political force called the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats. Both parties first held separate congresses to ensure that party leaders had the blessing of ...

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