Naujoji Demokratie - Moterų partija
The Naujoji Demokratija - Moterų partija was a political party in Lithuania .
history
Lietuvos moterų partija ( LMP , German: Lithuanian Women's Party ) existed from February 25, 1995 to the third party congress in 1998 , before it was renamed Naujoji Demokratie - Moterų partija ( ND-MP , German: New Democracy - Women's Party ) and attracted wider voters opened.
She saw herself as the political arm of the Lithuanian Women's Association ( Lietuvos moterų asociacija ), which was founded in 1993 and united various women's interest groups. The women's association had already existed during the First Republic . The declared aim at that time was to strengthen the role of women in all areas of society.
When the women's party was founded in 1995, the main aim was to bring women from the second row of the political scene to the fore. Programmatically, the party was more left of center, many of the founding members were involved in social projects. The party's first female prime minister after regaining independence in 1990, Kazimiera Prunskienė , was elected chairman of the party .
After the party had failed in parliamentary elections in 1996 at the 5% hurdle and was only represented with a direct mandate in parliament , it was decided to open up to new groups of the electorate, and from 1998 onwards it operated as Naujoji Demokratieija - Moterų partija ( ND-MP ; German : New Democracy - Women's Party ). Before the parliamentary elections in 2000 , the term “women's party” had already been completely deleted from the name of the party, and it now operated as Naujosios Demokratieijos partija ( Party of New Democracy ). The party entered the 2000 elections in a list connection with the Social Democrats : it won a list mandate and two direct mandates (including one for party leader Kazimiera Prunskienė).
In its search for a new ally who would ensure political survival, the party struck gold with the Lithuanian Peasant Party . On December 15, 2001 , the Union of the Peasant Party and the New Democracy Party ( VNDS ) merged.