VILNIUS -- Lithuania's ruling Homeland-Christian Democrats party has broken up, with the nationalists announcing that they will leave the alliance to re-form their own party.
Lithuania's Nationalist Union (LTS), which joined the conservatives in 2008, said it made the decision to split after a failed bid to replace Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius as the head of the party.
"Nationalist delegates adopted a decision to revoke the Nationalist group [from the conservative] party, and for the National Union to start as an independent political party," a press release on the party's website said.
LTS was a powerful force in the country during the first period of independence, ruling the country from 1926-1940, but has been in decline since the country regained independence from the Soviet Union.
The nationalist party currently have three MPs in the national parliament.
As an independent party, the nationalist union will need to drastically expand their support base in order to pass the 5% mark needed to join parliament in the next elections.
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