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Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union Lietuvos valstiečių ir žaliųjų sąjunga | |
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| Abbreviation | LVŽS |
| Chairperson | Ramūnas Karbauskis |
| First Vice Chairman | Aurelijus Veryga |
| Vice Chairpeople | Ligita Girskienė Kristina Kirslienė Arvydas Nekrošius Aušrinė Norkienė Bronis Ropė Giedrius Surplys |
| Founder | Kazimiera Prunskienė |
| Founded | 2001 (as the Union of Peasants and New Democratic Parties) |
| Merger of | Lithuanian Peasants Party New Democracy Party |
| Headquarters | Gedimino pr. 28, Vilnius |
| Membership (2023) |  3,741 |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre-left[10] to left-wing[15] |
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| Colours | Green |
| Seimas | 8 / 141 |
| European Parliament (Lithuanian seats) | 1 / 11 |
| Municipal councils | 185 / 1,498 |
| Mayors | 8 / 60 |
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The Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (Lithuanian: Lietuvos valstiečių ir žaliųjų sąjunga, LVŽS)[nb 1] is a green-conservative[1] and agrarian[5] political party in Lithuania led by Ramūnas Karbauskis. The party is considered one of the main representatives of the left wing of Lithuanian politics.[11] Lithuanian journalist Virgis Valentinavičius described the party as "the mixture of the extreme left in economic matters and the extreme right in some social issues, all spiced up with an anti-establishment rhetoric of radical change".[2]
Following the 2020 parliamentary election, the LVŽS has been in opposition to the Šimonytė Cabinet. The party's two MEPs sit in the Greens–European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament. Founded in 2001 as the Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union, (Lithuanian: Lietuvos valstiečių liaudininkų sąjunga, LVLS), the party's symbol since 2012 has been the white stork.
Formerly participating in the European Parliament group of the Greens–European Free Alliance, it announced its intention to join the European Conservatives and Reformists in 2024.[16]
- ^ a b Raunio, Tapio; Sedelius, Thomas (13 July 2019). Semi-Presidential Policy-Making in Europe: Executive Coordination and Political Leadership. Palgrave Studies in Presidential Politics. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 63. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-16431-7. ISBN 978-3-030-16431-7. S2CID 198743002.
- ^ "LVŽS steigia Krikščioniškosios demokratijos ir tradicinių vertybių analitinį centrą". 24 April 2023.
- ^ "Karbauskis rėžė – už Partnerystės įstatymą balsuojantiems "valstiečiams" nėra vietos frakcijoje". 17 July 2021.
- ^ a b Bakke, Elisabeth (2010). "Central and East European party systems since 1989". Central and Southeast European Politics since 1989. Cambridge University Press. p. 81.
- ^ Dulys, Sam L. (8 June 2021). Conserve and Conservative: The Ideological Divide Between the Green Parties of Lithuania and New Zealand and Its Ramifications for Environmentalism's Future. Environmental & Urban Studies (Thesis). University of Chicago. p. 11. doi:10.6082/uchicago.3061.
While groups like LVŽS advocate for environmentalism, conservation, and other ecological considerations, this is done in the backdrop of anti-Russian sentiment in addition to criticism of Lithuania's predominant political forces.
- ^ Jastramskis, Mažvydas (2023). "Foreign Policy Preferences and Vote Choice Under Semi-Presidentialism". Political Research Quarterly. 76 (2): 904. doi:10.1177/1065912922111920 (inactive 1 November 2024).
The major governing party, the centre-left Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVZS) endorsed the candidacy of their prime minister Saulius Skvernelis, another non-partisan (officially).
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link) - ^ Hagemans, Iris; van Hemert, Patricia; Meerkerk, Joachim; Risselada, Anne; van Winden, Risselada (2020). "ABCitiEs Policy Evaluation Report". Research Report. 20. Brussels: European Union: 14.
However, after the last elections in 2016, a large majority of Parliament seats went to a new centre-left Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union party.
- ^ Gałka, Irena (2019). "Electoral success and ideologies of agrarian parties in Central-Eastern European parliamentary democracies (1990-2015)" (PDF). Studium Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej. 11. Kutno: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Gospodarki Krajowej w Kutnie Wydział Studiów Europejskich: 79. ISSN 2353-8392.
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Left-of-center, agrarian, environmentalism - ^ [7][8][9]
- ^ a b "Nations in Transit 2021 - Lithuania". freedomhouse.org. 2021.
As a result, LVŽS appeared to establish itself as the main left-wing actor on the political spectrum, pushing out LSDP.
- ^ Mindaugas Kluonis (30 October 2020). "Lithuania turns right: urban-rural cleavage, generational change, and left-wing perspectives". progressivepost.eu.
This lack of firm position did not work, and in rural areas, the LSDP lost to the more populist and conservative left-wing LVŽS as well as to the Labour Party (DP), while in urban areas progressive voters voted for the liberals, mostly for the Freedom Party, but also for the Liberal Movement.
- ^ Mindaugas Kluonis (30 October 2020). "Lithuania turns right: urban-rural cleavage, generational change, and left-wing perspectives". progressivepost.eu.
Since 2016, the main party that was considered to be "left" was the LVŽS.
- ^ Toots, Anu; Lauri, Triin; Garritzmann, Julian L.; Häusermann, Silja; Palier, Bruno (19 May 2022). "Nation (Re)Building Through Social Investment? The Baltic Reform Trajectories". The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume II: The Politics of Varying Social Investment Strategies. New York: Oxford Academic Press. p. 166. doi:10.1093/oso/9780197601457.003.0007.
In the second half of the 2010s, agrarian parties moved toward populism, which in Estonia and Latvia has a radical right-wing flavor, whereas the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union is rather leftist.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ [11][12][13][14]
- ^ a b ""Valstiečiai" EP siekia prisijungti prie Europos konservatorių ir reformistų frakcijos (nuotraukos)". BNS (in Lithuanian). 9 June 2024.
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