A Christian Democratic movement was established in Lithuania in 1890 by a group of Roman Catholic clergy and intellectuals.
[2] The Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party (LKDP) was formally established in 1917, with its first congress held in Vilnius on 20 November 1918.
[3] The 1922 elections saw the LKDP remain the largest party, but the Bloc lost its majority, winning only 38 of the 78 seats.
[4] In early elections in 1923 the Christian Democrats finished third, but the Bloc won 40 seats and were able to form a government without outside support.
Conflicting sides were "moderns" (Feliksas Palubinskas, Egidijus Vareikis, Vytautas Bogušis, Algis Kašėta, Artūras Vazbys) and "conservatives" (Zigmas Zinkevičius, Petras Gražulis).