Labour Party (Lithuania)

The Labour Party (Lithuanian: Darbo Partija), or DP, is a centrist political party in Lithuania. It was founded in 2003 by the Russian-born millionaire Viktor Uspaskich.

In its first electoral test, the 2004 European Parliamentary Elections, it was by far the most successful party gaining 30.2% of the vote and returning 5 MEPs. It joined the European Democratic Party and thus the group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. At the 2004 legislative elections, the party won 28.4% of the popular vote and 39 out of 141 seats, making it the largest single party in the Parliament of Lithuania. After the election Labour formed a coalition government with the Social Democrats and New Union.

At the legislative elections of 2008 the party entered into a coalition with the Youth party, the party lost heavily, gaining only 10 seats in the Seimas from its previous 39 and 9 percent of the national vote and due to its other coalition partner, New Union (Social Liberals) also losing heavily its coalition with the formers and the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania collapsed and a new centre-right coalition, led by Andrius Kubilius, who becomes prime minister for a second time, of Homeland Union, National Resurrection Party, and Liberals' Movement of the Republic of Lithuania which gained a combined governmental majority of 72 out of 141 seats, took over, leaving the party in opposition.

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