Homeland Union

Homeland Union

The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (Conservatives, Political Prisoners and the Exiled, Nationalists), before 2008 Homeland Union (Conservatives, Political Prisoners and the Exiled, Christianical Democrats) (Lithuanian: "Tėvynės sąjunga (konservatoriai, politiniai kaliniai ir tremtiniai, krikščioniškieji demokratai)"), or TS, is a political party in Lithuania. It was founded in May 1993 by the right wing of the Lithuanian Movement for Restructuring (Sąjūdis), led by the transitional national leader Vytautas Landsbergis. Its current leader is former prime minister Andrius Kubilius.

It is a centre right, conservative, and christian democratic party, and a member of the European People's Party (EPP) and the International Democrat Union (IDU).

In the 1996 national elections it secured 40% of the vote and returned 70 deputies to the Seimas, but in 2001 it was reduced to 8.6% and 9 deputies. After Lithuania's admission to the European Union it elected in the 2004 European Parliamentary Elections two MEPs (one of whom is Dr. Vytautas Landsbergis) who sit in the EPP-ED Group.

At the last legislative elections, 10 October 2004, the party won 14.6 % of the popular vote and 25 out of 141 seats.

Until the merger with Union of Political Prisoners and the Exiled and Christianical Democrats (not Lithuanian Christian Democrats) was known just as "Homeland Union (Lithuanian Conservatives)". The last change of the name was a result of the merger with the Lithuanian Nationalists Union on March 11, 2008, and the Lithuanian Christian Democrats on May 17, 2008, after which the "Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats" became the Lithuania's largest party with more than 18000 members.

External links

* [http://www.tsajunga.lt/ Official web site]


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