Lithuanian Pensioners' Party The party was founded as the '''Lithuanian Pensioners' Party''' () on 14 June 2007. It described itself as a
pensioners' party and its foundation was motivated by injustice towards retired persons in Lithuania. The party's founder,
Vytautas Jurgis Kadžys, was a retired army officer who formerly belonged to the far-right
Lithuanian Nationalist Union and
National Democratic Party of Lithuania. However, Kadžys claimed that the party belongs to neither the political left nor the right and will cooperate with parties from the entire political spectrum. It protested Lithuania's
accession to the Eurozone and demanded
pensions to be indexed with inflation. It participated in the 2011 municipal elections and received 0.37% of the vote, but did not win any mandates. It finished with a worse result in the municipal elections of 2015 and ceased participating in municipal elections. In
2016, it joined
Naglis Puteikis,
2014 presidential election candidate and former
Homeland Union member of the
Seimas, and journalist
Kristupas Krivickas in the "Anti-Corruption Coalition". A wide coalition of
anti-establishment parties, it was also joined by the
Lithuanian Centre Party, the
Centre of Trade Unions, the
Lithuanian Christian Democracy Party, and former
National Resurrection Party member
Ligitas Kernagis. Though the coalition received 6.32% of the vote, it did not reach the 7% threshold required for multi-party coalitions and did not win proportional seats.
Union of Intergenerational Solidarity In January 2020, the party was joined by philosopher
Arvydas Juozaitis, who was elected the new party chairman. Juozaitis was a candidate in the
2019 presidential election and campaigned against
globalisation and
European integration, and had intended to found his own party, but failed to gather the required number of founding members. The party was renamed to the
Union of Intergenerational Solidarity - Cohesion for Lithuania (), and it was joined by former
Order and Justice MP
Juozas Imbrasas, giving it its first and only member in the Seimas. The new chairman reasserted the party's defense of pensioner interests, while at the same time requesting youth members, claiming that the party's members require help with modern technology. Two other right-wing parties founded in the leadup to the
2020 parliamentary election, the
National Alliance and
Christian Union, originally considered unifying with Juozaitis' movement, but split and the three parties denounced one another. Juozaitis described it as a "people's party" and claimed that it seeks to replicate the
grassroots success of
Barack Obama in Lithuania. It received 0.51% of the vote in the election and did not win a single mandate. Juozaitis resigned as party chairman after the election, on 30 November 2020.
Together with the Vytis In June 2021, the party was renamed to its current name, and Vaclovas Žutautas was elected as its new chairman. In 2022, the Central Electoral Commission seized €6,500 of membership fees after declaring the rate collected as exceeding the maximum of 10% from persons income and subsequently illegal. It endorsed
Valdas Tutkus in the
2024 presidential election; however, he failed to gather the necessary amount of signatures to be registered as a candidate. ==Platform==