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Labour Party Darbo partija | |
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| Abbreviation | DP |
| Chairperson | Rolandas Janickas |
| Vice Chairpeople | Alvydas Meištas Raimundas Markauskas Vaida Pocė Aidas Gedvilas Vigilijus Jukna Vaida Giraitytė-Juškevičienė Alicija Ščerbaitė Rolandas Janickas Antanas Makarevičius Valentinas Bukauskas Marijus Velička Vaidas Kuzmarskis Ieva Kačinskaitė-Urbonienė Viktoras Fiodorovas |
| Executive Secretary | Ingrida Karpuškaitė |
| Founder | Viktor Uspaskich |
| Founded | 18 October 2003 |
| Registered | 25 November 2003 |
| Headquarters | Ankštoji g. 3, Vilnius |
| Membership (2023) | 9357[1] |
| Ideology | Social democracy[2] Populism[3][4][5] |
| Political position | Centre-left[4][6][7][8] |
| European affiliation | European Democratic Party (2004–2012) Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (2012–2021)[9] |
| European Parliament group | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (2004–2019) Renew Europe (2019–2021) Non-Inscrits (since 2021) |
| Colours | Blue White |
| Seimas | 0 / 141
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| European Parliament | 0 / 11
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| Municipal councils | 46 / 1,473
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| Mayors | 0 / 60
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The Labour Party (Lithuanian: Darbo partija, DP) is a populist[3][4][5] centre-left[10] political party in Lithuania. The party was founded in 2003 by the Russian-born millionaire businessman and member of Seimas Viktor Uspaskich.[11]
- ^ "Darbo partija". Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija (in Lithuanian). 2024. Archived from the original on 30 July 2024. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ Sikk, Allan (8 September 2005). "Newness as a Project: Successful New Parties in the Baltic States". ECPR General Conference. Budapest: European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR): 14.
Of the two Lithuanian cases, Labour Party can be argued to have run on basically a social democratic ticket without the alleged corruption of Algirdas Brazauskas' Social Democratic Party.
- ^ a b Ramonaitė, Ainė (2006), "The Development of the Lithuanian Party System: From Stability to Perturbation", Post-Communist EU Member States: Parties And Party Systems, Ashgate, p. 76
- ^ a b c Auers, Daunis; Kasekamp, Andres (2015). "The impact of radical right parties in the Baltic states". Transforming the Transformation?: The East European radical right in the political process. Routledge. p. 148. ISBN 978-1-317-54939-0.
- ^ a b Richard Rose; Neil Munro (1 April 2009). Parties and Elections in New European Democracies. ECPR Press. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-9558203-2-8.
- ^ Hyndle-Hussein, Joanna (19 December 2019). "The centre-left government takes power in Lithuania". Centre for Eastern Studies.
The coalition, which has a constitutional majority, has been formed by centre-left groupings: the Social Democrats, the Labour Party, Order and Justice, and the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (AWPL).
- ^ "Lithuania: Parliamentary Elections". Center for Strategic and International Studies. 11 October 2020.
Labour Party (DP): a center-left, populist party led by businessman Viktor Uspaskich; not affiliated with either governing or opposition coalitions.
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zukquotewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Lithuanian Labour Party quits EP's liberal group after leader's homophobic rant". 2 February 2021.
- ^ Jurkynas, Mindaugas (2005). "The 2004 presidential and parliamentary elections in Lithuania". Notes on Recent Elections / Electoral Studies. 24 (1). Institute of International Relations and Political Science (TSPMI): 775. doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2005.03.002.
These circumstances were ideally suited to a party that combined a leftist outlook with anti-establishment rhetoric, so the new Labour Party, rather than Paksas's Liberal Democrats, came from nowhere to win a plurality of votes and seats. Labour's wealthy Russian leader, Viktor Uspaskich, may have helped his party's cause by reminding some voters of the socially secure Soviet times.
- ^ Saulius A. Suziedelis (7 February 2011). Historical Dictionary of Lithuania. Scarecrow Press. pp. 163–. ISBN 978-0-8108-7536-4.