Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Alliance

Lithuanian political party

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2024 The party receives 5.78% of votes, maintaining its sixth-place position in the European Parliament elections.
2024 The party receives 3.96% of votes, ranking 8th, and continues to remain in opposition.
2023 LLRA's member Waldemar Urban lost the Vilnius District Municipality mayor election to Social Democrats' Robert Duchniewicz, marking the first time since 1995 that LLRA lost this election.
2023 Achieved 57 seats in municipal councils after local elections, maintained 3 seats in the Seimas and 1 seat in the European Parliament.
June 12 2023 The Central Electoral Commission of Lithuania stated that LLRA-KŠS indirectly bribed voters by giving gifts to children in the Vilnius District during the previous year's election.
May 2023 Mateusz Morawiecki, the Prime Minister of Poland, awarded Stanisław Pieszko and Waldemar Tomaszewski with badges of honor for services to the Polish diaspora, causing controversy in Lithuanian media and political circles.
March 31 2022 Jedziński encouraged Poland to leave NATO and the EU and create an alliance with Russia, which led to several prominent party politicians leaving the party.
2020 The party secures 4.97% of votes, ranking 7th, and wins 5 seats, returning to opposition status.
2020 LLRA scored 4.82% in the Lithuanian parliamentary election and did not qualify for the Thirteenth Seimas of Lithuania.
September 2020 Tomaszewski and the LLRA fraction in Seimas did not participate in voting on a resolution regarding the illegal union of Russia and Belarus.
August 2020 Tomaszewski stated that 'there is nothing worse than revolutions' around the time of the Belarusian protests.
2019 Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (EAPL) participated in the parliamentary election, seeking representation in the Lithuanian parliament.
2019 The party's vote share declines to 5.50%, but still secures representation in the European Parliament.
2017 LLRA member Zbignev Jedziński criticized Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis' support for increasing Lithuania's defensive spending to 2.5% of GDP, and suggested signing a non-aggression pact with Russia instead.
2016 The party maintains strong performance with 5.72% of votes, ranked 6th. Remains in opposition from 2016-2019, then joins a coalition from 2019-2020.
2014 The party maintains its performance with 8.05% of votes, retaining its representation in the European Parliament.
2014 LLRA member Zbignev Jedinskij called on NATO to begin bombing Kyiv to force peace on his Facebook profile.
2012 Multiple new members enter Parliament: Zbignev Jedinskij, Vanda Kravčionok, Juzef Kvetkovskij, and Rita Tamašunienė
2012 Irina Rozova returns to Parliament after a period from 2004-2008
2012 First time breaking through 5% in a parliamentary election, qualifying for proportional representation seats.

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