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Center-right parties agree on coalition

Oct 27, 2008
TBT Staff in cooperation with BNS

Andrius Kubilius' Homeland Union will head the coalition with 44 seats in the 141 member Parliament.
VILNIUS 's Leaders of four Lithuanian center-right parties have signed an agreement on forming a new ruling coalition.

Heads of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats, the National Resurrection Party, the Liberal Movement and the Liberal and Centrist Union signed the document to create a ruling coalition on Monday.

"Our first job is to audit the current situation," chairman of the Homeland Union Andrius Kubilius told the media after signing the joint declaration.

In their first statements to the media after forming the coalition, party leaders focused on passing a budget and reversing the country's recent economic decline.

"We see it necessary to review the draft budget as prepared by the government with due scrutiny," Kubilius said.

"The condition of the country and Lithuanian people is aggravated by the fact that no preventative measures were taken to mitigate the consequences of the crisis in due time, resulting in huge deficits in the national and Sodra's budgets and can possibly lead to a sharp decline in the growth of the gross national product," the joint declaration from Andrius Kubilius, Arunas Valinskas, Eligijus Masiulis and Arturas Zuokas reads.

According to the initial data, the four-party coalition will have at least 79 votes at the parliament of 141 seats.

The tentative results of the second round of elections show that the Homeland Union will have 44 seats, the National Resurrection Party will take 16 seats, the Lithuanian Liberal Movement won 11 seats, and the Liberal and Centrist Union took 8 seats in the parliament.

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