<resource xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4" xsi:schemaLocation="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4 http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-4.1/metadata.xsd"><identifier identifierType="Handle">21.12137/WSBSLW</identifier><creators><creator><creatorName nameType="Personal">Žvaliauskas, Giedrius</creatorName><givenName>Giedrius</givenName><familyName>Žvaliauskas</familyName><nameIdentifier nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0001-8970-0756</nameIdentifier><affiliation>Research Group – Civil Society and Sustainability, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [Data collection; Data curation]</affiliation></creator></creators><titles><title>Statutes of the New Union (Social Liberals), 1998-2011</title></titles><publisher>Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)</publisher><publicationYear>2026</publicationYear><subjects><subject>Social Sciences</subject><subject schemeURI="https://elsst.cessda.eu" valueURI="https://elsst.cessda.eu/id/c1561f24-0cc7-464c-82c9-e8d820060494" subjectScheme="ELSST">political parties</subject><subject schemeURI="https://elsst.cessda.eu" valueURI="https://elsst.cessda.eu/id/4/56f6c6b2-5cf1-40de-9bcd-39cf5212e6b8" subjectScheme="ELSST">organizations</subject><subject schemeURI="https://elsst.cessda.eu" valueURI="https://elsst.cessda.eu/id/4/b8c8a982-9950-4d8f-8314-4f83b74346e2" subjectScheme="ELSST">political groups</subject><subject schemeURI="https://vocabularies.cessda.eu/vocabulary/TopicClassification?code=PoliticsGovernmentPoliticalSystemsAndOrganisations" subjectScheme="CESSDA CV for CESSDA Topic Classification">Government, political systems and organisations</subject></subjects><contributors><contributor contributorType="ContactPerson"><contributorName nameType="Organizational">Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA)</contributorName><affiliation>Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania</affiliation></contributor><contributor contributorType="Distributor"><contributorName nameType="Organizational">Lithuanian Data Archive for Social Sciences and Humanities</contributorName><affiliation>Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania</affiliation></contributor></contributors><dates><date dateType="Issued">2026-04-27</date><date dateType="Created">2026-04-27</date><date dateType="Submitted">2025-08-01</date><date dateType="Updated">2026-05-18</date><date dateType="Collected">1999/2010</date></dates><resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Dataset">Textual data</resourceType><alternateIdentifiers><alternateIdentifier alternateIdentifierType="Lithuanian Data Archive for Social Sciences and Humanities (LiDA)">LiDA_TextualData_0749</alternateIdentifier></alternateIdentifiers><sizes><size>2036829</size><size>113288</size><size>72446</size></sizes><formats><format>application/x-gzip</format><format>application/x-gzip</format><format>application/x-gzip</format></formats><version>1.0</version><rightsList><rights rightsURI="info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess"/><rights/></rightsList><descriptions><description descriptionType="Abstract">&lt;p>This dataset contains the New Union (Social Liberals) (NS(SL)) statutes.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The New Union (Social Liberals) (NS(SL)) was a Lithuanian political party that has been active from 1998 to 2011.&lt;/p>
&lt;p> This party has been established on April 25, 1998. On November 25, 2006, the Lithuanian Justice Party joined the (NS(SL)), and on September 26, 2009 – the Lithuanian People's Union "For a Just Lithuania" and the Lithuanian Life Logic Party. On July 9, 2011, the (NS(SL)) merged with the &lt;a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/JHFDDY" target="_blank">Labour Party&lt;/a> (DP).</description><description descriptionType="TechnicalInfo">&lt;a href="https://vocabularies.cessda.eu/vocabulary/SoftwarePackage?code=R" target="_blank">R&lt;/a> (DDI Alliance CV for Software Package), 4.5.1</description><description descriptionType="Methods">&lt;p>Personal archive of Alvidas Lukošaitis;&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Website of the New Union (Social Liberals).&lt;/p></description><description descriptionType="SeriesInformation">The series contains datasets that include documents regulating the organizational structure and functions of internal institutions and their mutual interactions in the major Lithuanian political parties. Major Lithuanian political parties are defined as parties that have representatives elected to the Parliament through the proportional representation system and delegated to the Government.</description><description descriptionType="Other">&lt;p>
The main language of the data is Lithuanian (lit).
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The data were also machine translated into English (eng).
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Depositor provided keywords:
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&lt;li>Lithuanian political parties&lt;/li> 
&lt;li>statutes.&lt;/li> &lt;/ul> &lt;/p></description></descriptions><geoLocations><geoLocation><geoLocationPlace>Kaunas, Lithuania</geoLocationPlace></geoLocation></geoLocations><fundingReferences><fundingReference><funderName>Research Council of Lithuania (Implementation of the International Research Infrastructure Membership Plan [CESSDA ERIC])</funderName><awardNumber>VS-19 / SV3240301</awardNumber></fundingReference></fundingReferences></resource>