National Alliance (Lithuania)

Origins, foundation and the first years (2016–2022) The predecessor to the party was the Vilnius Forum, later the National Forum, a right-wing political movement which criticized globalization, liberalism and LGBT rights, founded in 2016. The founder of the Forum was Vytautas Radžvilas, a political philosopher, professor and former activist of the Sąjūdis during the Singing Revolution, known for his criticism of liberalism and multiple citizenship, as well as Eurosceptic views. During this period, he gained notoriety for a conflict with the administration of Vilnius University, and he claimed he was removed from lecturing in the university's politics and international relations institute because of his right-wing views. In 2019, Radžvilas established the public election committee "Vytautas Radžvilas: Recover the State!" () to participate in the 2019 European Parliament election in Lithuania. Though he claimed that the European Parliament is powerless, he likened it to the Congress of the People's Deputies in the last years of the Soviet Union, and that it will determine the future of the organization. The committee received 3.35 percent of the votes and did not win any seats. After the election, the movement considered unification with 2019 presidential candidate Arvydas Juozaitis and the Christian Union, but it failed due to personal conflict and a separate National Alliance was founded on 7 March 2020. It received 2.21 percent of the vote in the 2020 parliamentary election, and received no seats in the Seimas. In 2021, the party received personal thanks from Viktor Orban for their endorsement of Hungarian anti-LGBT laws. Gaining representation at municipal and national levels (since 2023) In the 2023 municipal elections, it won three seats on the municipal council of Vilnius City Municipality, its most successful election result. One of the party's councillors, Aleksandras Nemunaitis, was expelled in April 2023, as he joined the effort to nominate Artūras Zuokas as leader of the opposition in the Vilnius municipal council, even though the party opposed this move. In the 2024 Lithuanian parliamentary election, the party gained representation, when party's deputy leader Vytautas Sinica won a single member constituency in Vilnius. Infighting (2025) == Program and ideology ==

The National Alliance is generally described as a far-right party. It claims to be an all-national movement that seeks to restore the ideas of Sąjūdis, the national movement which was responsible for the restoration of Lithuania's independence in 1990. The party is described as nationalist, with a dream to make "Lithuania forever Lithuanian." It claims to represent a nationalist, The party's primary objective is opposition to the national strategy of "Global Lithuania", which seeks to maintain the Lithuanian diaspora as an integral part of a "global" Lithuanian state, and demands a strategy towards limiting emigration and encouraging emigrant return. It is also opposed to LGBT rights and states that its purpose is to defend Christianity in Lithuania and the Lithuanian ethnicity from extinction. Economically, the party holds certain populist and interventionist views, such as instituting progressive taxation, strengthening the social safety net and increasing funding for the education system, although it also seeks to "destroy the mentality of dependency" and cut benefits for certain social groups, such as alcoholics, unemployed persons and single mothers whose children's father's identity is unknown. It does not seek Lithuania's withdrawal from the European Union, but opposes further integration and demands more powers to be returned to the organization's member states. It also demands that the European Union formally recognize its Christian heritage. ==Election results==

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