Tautininkų ir krikščionių demokratų pasitarimų posėdžių protokolai (1927 m. balandis, spalis-lapkritis)
The Records of Conferences between the National Union and Christian Democrats (1927, April, October-November)

Summary/Abstract: When Antanas Smetona dissolved the 3rd Seimas on April 12, 1927, the period of parliamentary democracy came to an end in Lithuania. This action was initiated by the Lithuanian National Union who came to power after the coup d’état of December 17, 1926. Their former allies, Christian Democrats who still remained in power after the dissolution of the Seimas, attempted to hold new elections to the Seimas. When the negotiations failed in spring and the Seimas was not convened, in the summer of the same year Christian Democrats recalled their representatives from the Government and formed opposition. One more attempt to reach consensus and agree upon the further government of the country as well as the formation of the coalition government was made by the National Union and Christian Democrats in the autumn of the same year. This conference did not yield tangible results; as a consequence, the Nationalist dictatorship was set up in the country under A. Smetona’s leadership while Christian Democrats remained in opposition for almost 14 years. The records of these meetings and negotiations are being published for the first time. They reveal different attitudes by the representatives of these two parties towards parliamentary democracy, Lithuania’s democratic Constitution of 1922 and the government of the country. The documents also present other subtle details unknown to the researchers of Lithuania’s parliamentary traditions and the society of that period.

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