The Union of the Fighters for Lithuania (), previously known as the Union for the President of Lithuania () was a minor political party in Lithuania of an eclectic far-right political orientation which was founded in 2011. It replaced the Lithuanian Liberty Union. It did not achieve any notable electoral results and was liquidated by the Supreme Election Commission in 2022 for failing to provide a list of members.
History
Foundation
The Lithuanian Liberty Union was reorganized to the Union for the President of Lithuania on 6 August 2011. , the wife of the former President of Lithuania Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas and former member of the Social Democratic Party, was elected as the new party's chairwoman. According to Brazauskienė, the party was intended to defend the interests of common people, and she demanded to abolish severance pay for Members of the Seimas.
However, she only remained chairwoman for a few months. After demanding the party to be renamed to the "Kristina Brazauskienė's Alliance for Unity" () and being refused, as well as opposing the election of the former chairman of the Liberty Union, Vytautas Šustauskas, as the second chairman of the party, she resigned from the position, left the party and founded the Democratic Party of Labour and Unity.
Šustauskas' leadership
After Brazauskienė's resignation, Šustauskas was elected as the new chairman and the party was renamed to the Union of the Fighters for Lithuania. Šustauskas, a former Member of the Seimas and mayor of Kaunas, was a controversial personality known for numerous protest actions, such as the "March of the Poor" in Vilnius in 1997, and self-styled himself as "King of the Beggars".
Ahead of the 2012 parliamentary election, the party was joined by several radical and pro-Russian activists. Jurij Subotin, former member of the far-left Front Party, and neo-nazi activist Visvaldas Mažonas ran as the party's candidates in single-member constituencies during the election, as well as Šustauskas himself. Most of the party's candidates had a criminal record. The elections were unsuccessful for the party, and none of the candidates received a significant share of the vote. Šustauskas ran in the by-elections held after the death of in 3 March 2013, but was defeated again.
Through its chairman, the party was involved in a case in the Constitutional Court in 2012. Šustauskas, who claimed that he refuses to open a bank account in any bank which is controlled by foreign capital, sued the Social Security Fund () for refusing to pay his sickness benefit unless he opened a bank account. The court affirmed his position.
The party endorsed the "Yes" vote in the 2014 Lithuanian constitutional referendum, which would have prevented non-Lithuanian citizens from holding any land in the country, and called for the usage of "forbidden means" to protect Lithuanian soil from foreign ownership. It compared Lithuania's political situation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as the Russian sale of Alaska.
Jurij Subotin attempted to run in the 2014 presidential election as an independent candidate. He distanced himself from the party. In 2016, during a protest in Vilnius against corruption and NATO membership organized by the party, Subotin physically attacked Šustauskas.
The party sold its offices in Liberty Boulevard, Kaunas for 100 thousand euros in 2018. It struggled with activity, and Šustauskas offered the position of chairman to Signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania and right-wing politician Zigmas Vaišvila in 2016.
Attempted reformation to the Conservative Party
On November 2018, media in Lithuania received an announcement from an alleged "Conservative Party of Lithuania" (), which was planned to be established as a classical conservative party. The party's founders and members were not revealed in the announcement. On January 2019, it was announced that fraudster and self-proclaimed attorney Stanislovas Tomas was elected chairman of the Conservative Party, which was a planned reorganization of the Union of the Fighters for Lithuania. It also shared the alleged electoral program of the "List of Attorney Stanislovas Tomas" public election committee, which intended to run in the 2019 European Parliament elections.
Stanislovas Tomas' attempt to rename the party and register a new party statute was not recognized by the Ministry of Justice in March 2019 due to the vagueness and lack of clarity of the statute.