The Way of Courage

The Way of Courage (Lithuanian: Drąsos Kelias) is an inactive populist political party in Lithuania.

[2][3] The party was established by supporters of Drąsius Kedys, who claimed that justice officials had whitewashed a ring of pedophiles after his daughter had been sexually molested.

[5] The party's chairman is Jonas Varkala, a former Catholic priest, who officially left the church in February 2012.

While some of its leaders, such as Jonas Varkala and Algirdas Patackas, were conservative, others were more liberal, such as Vytautas Matulevičius, who was one of the first Lithuanian politicians to support same-sex partnerships.

[13] In its 2012 electoral program, the party promised various populist measures such as higher pensions, simplified referendum law and abolishing Lithuania's parallel voting system in favor of first-past-the-post.