Graft Pledge

The 'confidence government', as it likes to be known, has put restoring trust in state institutions at the heart of its political agenda. Failure to do so would be likely to cost Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas dearly. He has reportedly promised to resign if corruption perceptions, as captured by Transparency International's (TI) annual survey, do not decrease. Lithuania recently scored 4.8 for a second year in row on TI's scale of zero to 10 (the higher the number, the lower corruption) - a shade higher than Latvia (4.7), but much lower than Estonia

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