Editing Homeland Union (section)

== Platform ==
It is the main centre-right party, and has been traditionally allied to other centre-right or liberal parties such as the [[Liberals' Movement (Lithuania)|Liberals' Movement]], [[Freedom Party (Lithuania)|Freedom Party]], [[Liberal and Centre Union]] or the [[National Resurrection Party]] with which they are usually grouped together<ref>{{cite web|work=[[Konrad Adenauer Foundation]]|date=October 2020|access-date=2023-01-06|title=Lithuania Has Voted for Change|url=https://www.kas.de/documents/252038/7938566/Lithuania+Has+Voted+for+Change.pdf/2811e385-a8ed-b8c0-9a14-84d5cc46fb29?version=1.0&t=1604307344033|quote=[...] the centre-right parties (TS-LKD, LP, LRLS) voted into the Seimas were reluctant to address the issue of coalition formation.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|work=[[Centre for Eastern Studies]]|date=2012-03-21|access-date=2023-01-11|title=The governmental crisis in Lithuania has been resolved|first=Joanna|last=Hyndle-Hussein|url=https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/analyses/2012-03-21/governmental-crisis-lithuania-has-been-resolved|quote=Opinion polls indicate that LiCS is losing popularity and will not pass the electoral threshold of 5%, as along with the other centre-right parties except for the Conservatives.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|work=LIW Magazine|access-date=2023-01-11|title=Stability Is The Key|date=29 November 2018 |url=https://www.liw.lt/stability-is-the-key/|quote=On Monday night, after the votes were counted, the leaders of the four centre right parties (TS-LKDP, Liberal and Centre Union, Liberal Movement and Rising Nation) gathered for talks.}}</ref> and formed coalitions in the past.

The Homeland Union is [[conservative]].<ref>{{Cite web|title= Machtwechsel in Litauen - Konservative gewinnen Parlamentswahl |website=[[Der Spiegel]] |url=https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/litauen-konservative-partei-gewinnt-parlamentswahl-a-ebb4ea09-314c-4bdc-a864-3220e8480b83|date=26 October 2020|access-date=11 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Konservative gewinnen erste Runde der Parlamentswahl in Litauen |website=[[Der Standard]] |url=https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000120847682/konservative-gewannen-erste-runde-der-parlamentswahl-in-litauen|date=12 October 2020|access-date=11 January 2021}}</ref> For most of its existence, it has explicitly defined itself as [[anti-communist]] (mainly because the main opposition party to the Homeland Union was the [[Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania]], which was created from the [[Communist Party of Lithuania]] in 1990), with an ideology influenced by [[liberal conservatism]],<ref name="Bugajski"/> [[Christian democracy]],<ref name="PEE">{{Cite web|first=Wolfram|last=Nordsieck|title=Lithuania|website=Parties and Elections in Europe|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/lithuania.html|year=2020|access-date=26 October 2020}}</ref> and [[nationalism]].<ref name="Bakke">{{Citation |first=Elisabeth |last=Bakke |title=Central and East European party systems since 1989 |work=Central and Southeast European Politics Since 1989 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2010 |page=79 |isbn=9781139487504 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oFXdiS25N78C&q=homeland+union+lithuania+national+conservative&pg=PA79 |access-date=17 November 2011}}</ref><ref name="Clark">{{Citation |first=Terry D. |last=Clark |title=Nationalism in Post-Soviet Lithuania: New Approaches for the Nation of "Innocent Sufferers" |work=After Independence: Making and Protecting the Nation in Postcolonial and Postcommunist States |publisher=University of Michigan Press |year=2006}}</ref> TS–LKD is [[economic liberalism|economically liberal]],<ref name="Raimonaite"/> supports a [[free market economy]]<ref>{{Cite web|first=Jens|last=Mattern|title=Vaterlandsunion / Litauische Christdemokraten|website=Litauen.info |date=17 March 2009 |url=https://www.litauen.info/politik/parteien-in-litauen/vaterlandsunion-litauische-christdemokraten/|access-date=11 January 2021}}</ref> and was described as [[neoliberalism|neo-liberal]].<ref>{{Cite web|first=Jens|last=Mattern|title= In Litauen muss die Linkskoalition abdanken |website=heise online|url=https://www.telepolis.de/features/In-Litauen-muss-die-Linkskoalition-abdanken-3344951.html|date=10 October 2016|access-date=11 January 2021}}</ref>

After the election of Gabrielius Landsbergis as leader of the party in 2015 (especially after 2017), the Homeland Union started to describe itself as the country's people's party ({{langx|lt|žmonių partija}}) and moved more to a centrist direction, rebranding itself as a European moderate party, while still maintaining [[Centre-right politics|centre-right]] profile (especially on economics).