Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania

Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos demokratinė darbo partija, LDDP) was the renamed Communist Party of Lithuania[1]. It was a political party in Lithuania in the 1990s, which claimed to be social-democratic. The youth organization of LDDP was called Lithuanian Labourist Youth Union (Lietuvos leiboristų jaunimo unija).

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Democratic Labour Party
Lithuanian nameLietuvos demokratinė darbo partija
AbbreviationLDDP
PresidentČeslovas Juršėnas (2001)
FounderAlgirdas Brazauskas
FoundedDecember 1989
Dissolved2001
Preceded byCommunist Party of Lithuania
Merged intoSocial Democratic Party of Lithuania
Youth wingLithuanian Labourist Youth Union
Political positionLeft-wing
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History

The Party emerged from the Lithuanian section of the CPSU in December 1990[2] LDDP was led by Algirdas Brazauskas, the first president of independent Lithuania. Because Brazauskas was elected as the first president, he was required to stop his activities in any parties. Adolfas Šleževičius became the party leader and the Prime Minister. After Šleževičius was charged with corruption, he was replaced by Česlovas Juršėnas. The LDDP won the 1992 parliamentary elections, gaining 43% of the vote giving it 73 seats in the Seimas.[3] In 1996 Seimas elections, LDDP got about 9.5% of the votes and won 10 seats in the parliament. In 2000 elections LDDP formed a coalition with other three parties named after Algirdas Brazauskas and won majority of the votes. In 2001, LDDP merged with the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party to form the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos socialdemokratų partija).

List of presidents
# Image President Term
1 Algirdas Brazauskas 1990 – 1993
2 Adolfas Šleževičius 1993 – 1996
3 Česlovas Juršėnas 1996 – 2001
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Official website archived as of February, 2001

Notes and references
  1. Nordsieck, Wolfram. "Lithuania". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 9 October 2002. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  2. "Algirdas Brazauskas". The Daily Telegraph. London. 27 June 2010.
  3. 1992 Parliamentary elections Archived 2011-06-14 at the Wayback Machine
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