<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><metadata xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns="http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/"><dcterms:title>Statutes of the Lithuanian Political Parties, starting from 1989 (combined dataset)</dcterms:title><dcterms:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/BA3I0E</dcterms:identifier><dcterms:creator>Žvaliauskas, Giedrius</dcterms:creator><dcterms:publisher>Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)</dcterms:publisher><dcterms:issued>2026-06-10</dcterms:issued><dcterms:modified>2026-06-11T06:12:22Z</dcterms:modified><dcterms:description>&lt;p>This dataset contains statutes of the Lithuanian political parties, starting from 1989: &lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>statutes of the Labour Party (DP), starting from 2003
&lt;li>statutes of the Union of Democrats "For Lithuania" (DSVL), starting from 2022
&lt;li>statutes of the Lithuanian Centre Union (LCS), 1993-2003
&lt;li>statutes of the Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania (LDDP), 1989-2001
&lt;li>statutes of the Liberal and Centre Union (LiCS), 2003-2011
&lt;li>statutes of the Lithuanian Christian Democrats (LKD), 1990-2007
&lt;li>statutes of the Liberal Union of Lithuania (LLS), 1990-2001
&lt;li>statutes of the Freedom Party (LP), starting from 2019
&lt;li>statutes of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Alliance (LRRA-KSS), starting from 2004
&lt;li>statutes of the Liberals' Movement (LS), starting from 2006
&lt;li>statutes of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (LSDP), starting from 1989
&lt;li>statutes of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVZS), starting from 2001
&lt;li>statutes of the Political Party "Dawn of Nemunas" (NA), starting from 2023
&lt;li>statutes of the New Union (Social Liberals) (NS(SL)), 1998-2011
&lt;li>statute of the National Resurrection Party (TPP), 2008
&lt;li>statutes of the Political Party "Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats" (TS-LKD), starting from 1993
&lt;li>statutes of the Political Party "Order and Justice" (TT), 2003-2017.
&lt;/ul></dcterms:description><dcterms:subject>Social Sciences</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>political parties</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>organizations</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>political groups</dcterms:subject><dcterms:language>English</dcterms:language><dcterms:language>Lithuanian</dcterms:language><dcterms:date>2026-06-10</dcterms:date><dcterms:contributor>Žvaliauskas, Giedrius (Research Group – Civil Society and Sustainability, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0001-8970-0756])</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Žvaliauskas, Giedrius (Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0001-8970-0756])</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:dateSubmitted>2026-06-05</dcterms:dateSubmitted><dcterms:temporal>1989</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2026</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>1999</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2026</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:type>&lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7152218" target="_blank">Textual data: Unstructured textual data&lt;/a> (LiDA Controlled Vocabulary for Types of Social Science Data)</dcterms:type><dcterms:type>&lt;a href="https://vocabularies.cessda.eu/vocabulary/KindOfData?code=Qualitative" target="_blank">Qualitative&lt;/a> (DDI Alliance CV for Kind of Data)"</dcterms:type><dcterms:source>&lt;a href="https://vocabularies.cessda.eu/vocabulary/DataSourceType?code=RegistersRecordsAccountsHistorical" target="_blank"> Registers/Records/Accounts: Historical&lt;/a></dcterms:source><dcterms:source>DP Statute, adopted on October 18, 2003</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>DP Statute, adopted on November 23, 2003</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>DP Statute, adopted on March 20, 2004</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>DP Statute, adopted on July 3, 2004</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>DP Statute, adopted on April 29, 2006</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>DP Statute, adopted on August 26, 2006</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>DP Statute, adopted on November 17, 2007</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>DP (Labourists) Statute, adopted on April 24, 2013</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>DP Statute, adopted on October 26, 2013</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>DP Statute, adopted on May 30, 2015</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>DP Statute, adopted on April 15, 2018</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>DP Statute, adopted on June 27, 2021</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>DP Statute, adopted on August 19, 2023</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>DSVL Statute, adopted on January 29th, 2022</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>DSVL Statute, adopted on June 17th, 2023</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>DSVL Statute, adopted on March 8th, 2025</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LCS Statute, adopted on June 5th, 1993</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LCS Statute, adopted on September 17th, 1995</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LCS Statute, adopted on June 28th, 1997</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LCS Statute, adopted on October 23rd, 1999</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LCS Statute, adopted on November 25th, 2000</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LCS Statute, adopted on November 24th, 2001</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LCS Statute, adopted on March 29th, 2003</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>Statute of the LKP, adopted on 19–23 December 1989</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>Statute of the LDDP, adopted on 8–9 December 1990</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>Statute of the LDDP, adopted on 12 September 1992</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>Statute of the LDDP, adopted on 17 April 1993</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>Statute of the LDDP, adopted on 18 May 1996</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>Statute of the LDDP, adopted on 23 January 1999</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>Statute of the LDDP, adopted on 9 August 2000</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LiCS Statute, adopted on May 31st, 2003</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LCS, LLS and MKDS merger agreement, adopted on May 31st, 2003 (According to the merger agreement, certain provisions of the 2003 statute would not apply until the LiCS convention, which would take place following the 2004 Seimas elections, because the provisions specified in the merger agreement would be in effect.)</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LiCS Statute, adopted on February 12th, 2005</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LiCS Statute, adopted on May 19th, 2007</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LiCS Statute, adopted on June 27th, 2009</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LiCS Statute, adopted on May 28th, 2011</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>Statute of the LKDP, adopted on January 27–28, 1990</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>Statute of the LKDP, adopted on December 28, 1991</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>Statute of the LKDP, adopted on August 29, 1992</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>Statute of the LKDP, adopted on April 24, 1993</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>Statute of the LKDP, adopted on November 18, 1995</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>Statute of the LKDP, adopted on September 28, 1997</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>Statute of the LKD, adopted on May 12, 2001</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>Statute of the LKD, adopted on June 11, 2005</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>Statute of the LKD, adopted on June 2, 2007</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LLS Statute, adopted on November 24th, 1990</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LLS Statute, adopted on April 25th/26th, 1992</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LLS Statute, adopted on September 5th, 1992</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LLS Statute, adopted on January 30th, 1993</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LLS Statute, adopted on January 20th, 1996</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LLS Statute, adopted on January 24th, 1998</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LLS Statute, adopted on December 4th, 1999</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LLS Statute, adopted on June 3rd, 2000</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LLS Statute, adopted on May 19th, 2001</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LLS Statute, adopted on October 27th, 2001</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LP Statute, adopted on June 1, 2019</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LP Statute, adopted on June 5, 2021</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LP Statute, adopted on June 10, 2023</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LP Statute, adopted on June 1, 2024</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LP Statute, adopted on November 30, 2024</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LLRA Statute, adopted on August 28, 1994</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LLRA Statute, adopted on December 17, 2004</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LLRA-KŠS Statute, adopted on May 7, 2016</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LRLS Statute, adopted on February 25th, 2006</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LRLS Statute, adopted on June 9th, 2007</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LRLS Statute, adopted on February 9th, 2008</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LRLS Statute, adopted on October 10th, 2009</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LRLS Statute, adopted on October 16th, 2011</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LRLS Statute, adopted on October 5th, 2013</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LRLS Statute, adopted on October 24th, 2015</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LRLS Statute, adopted on April 14th, 2018</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LRLS Statute, adopted on September 21st, 2019</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LRLS Statute, adopted on September 18th, 2021</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LS Statute, adopted on May 21st, 2022</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LS Statute, adopted on September 16th, 2023</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LS Statute, adopted on September 20th, 2025</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LSDP Statute, adopted on December 2–3, 1989</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LSDP Statute, adopted on May 4–5, 1991</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LSDP Statute, adopted on May 10, 1992</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LSDP Statute, adopted on May 22, 1993</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LSDP Statute, adopted on October 14–15, 1995</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LSDP Statute, adopted on June 21–22, 1997</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LSDP Statute, adopted on May 30, 1999</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LSDP Statute, adopted on January 27, 2001</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LSDP Statute, adopted on May 3, 2003</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LSDP Statute, adopted on May 14, 2005</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LSDP Statute, adopted on May 19, 2007</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LSDP Statute, adopted on March 7, 2009</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LSDP Statute, adopted on April 30, 2011</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LSDP Statute, adopted on May 4, 2013</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LSDP Statute, adopted on January 18, 2014</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LSDP Statute, adopted on May 1, 2015</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LSDP Statute, adopted on May 4, 2019</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LSDP Statute, adopted on May 29, 2021</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LSDP Statute, adopted on May 27, 2023</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>VNDS Statutes, adopted on December 15, 2001</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>VNDS Statutes, adopted on April 17, 2004</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LVLS Statutes, adopted on December 10, 2005</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LVŽS Statutes, adopted on July 17, 2021</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>LVŽS Statutes, adopted on March 1, 2025</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>NA Statute, adopted on November 11th, 2023</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>NA Statute, adopted on November 8th, 2025</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>NS(SL) Statute, adopted on April 25th, 1998</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>NS(SL) Statute, adopted on May 13th, 2000</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>NS(SL) Statute, adopted on September 4th, 2004</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>NS(SL) Statute, adopted on April 29th, 2006</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>NS(SL) Statute, adopted on November 25th, 2006</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>NS(SL) Statute, adopted on September 26th, 2009</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>NS(SL) Statute, adopted on November 27th, 2010</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>TPP Statute, adopted on May 25, 2008</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>TS(LK) Statute, adopted on May 1st, 1993</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>TS(LK) Statute, adopted on March 10th, 1996</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>TS(LK) Statute, adopted on November 28th, 1998</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>TS(LK) Statute, adopted on November 13th, 1999</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>TS(LK) Statute, adopted on May 24–25th, 2003</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>TS Statute, adopted on November 8th, 2003</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>TS Statute, adopted on February 7th, 2004</dcterms:source><dcterms:source>TS Statute, editions of December 10th, 2005 and June 17th, 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