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Independence Party (Lithuania)

Lithuanian political party

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 8, 2024
Entity authorityQ16354605 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Independence Party (Lithuanian: Nepriklausomybės partija, NP) was a political party in Lithuania between 1990 and 2001.

History

The party was initially named 11 March Party (Kovo 11-osios partija). It contested the 1992 parliamentary elections in an alliance with the Lithuanian Nationalist Union, winning a single seat. The seat was won by Kęstutis Skrebys, who in 1993 joined the newly-formed Homeland Union leaving the party seatless. It ran alone in the 1996 parliamentary elections, but failed to win a seat.

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The public source identifies “Independence Party (Lithuania)” as lithuanian political party. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Independence, Party and Lithuania.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 2001, 1992, 1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Independence, Party and Lithuania providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 8, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q16354605. VIAF identifies the subject as 146761057. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1990, 2001, 1992 and 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “Independence Party (Lithuania)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.