gained, reform communists and Vilnius liberal intellectuals left Sąjūdis about a month later. One of the reasons of this event, was a growing nationalist rhetoric. Some members formed the new Independence Party while liberal-leaning members helped to found the Liberal Union of Lithuania. As a result, the movement, still led by its founder V. Landsbergis, mostly included members from the Kaunas faction, who were inclined to ‘differentiate the local population into two clear groups, “patriots” and “communists”’. The popularity of Sąjūdis waned as it failed to maintain unity among people with different political beliefs and was ineffective in handling the economic crisis. Moreover, Sąjūdis lost major support from the rural regions of Lithuania as they proposed agricultural and land reforms without the input and against the interests of most kolkhoz employees and workers. Sąjūdis retained support in Kaunas and Panevėžys. In late summer of 1992, Sąjūdis and several minor parties and movements formed electoral coalition "For democratic Lithuania". The Democratic Labour Party (DLP; the former Communist Party of Lithuania) was victorious in the Seimas elections of 1992. Many of the group, including Landsbergis, formed the core of the Homeland Union, now the largest centre-right party in Lithuania. Members of Sąjūdis Initiative Group Aloyzas Sakalas Regimantas Adomaitis Vytautas Bubnys Juozas Bulavas Antanas Buračas Algimantas Čekuolis Virgilijus Čepaitis Vaclovas Daunoras Sigitas Geda Bronius Genzelis Arvydas Juozaitis Julius Juzeliūnas Algirdas Kaušpėdas Česlovas Kudaba Bronius Kuzmickas Vytautas Landsbergis Bronius Leonavičius Meilė Lukšienė Alfonsas Maldonis Justinas Marcinkevičius Alvydas Medalinskas Jokūbas Minkevičius Algimantas Nasvytis Romualdas Ozolas Romas Pakalnis Saulius Pečiulis Vytautas Petkevičius Kazimira Prunskienė Vytautas Radžvilas Raimundas Rajeckas Artūras Skučas Gintaras Songaila Arvydas Šaltenis Vitas Tomkus Zigmas Vaišvila Arūnas Žebriūnas See also Latvian National Independence Movement Popular Front of Estonia Popular Front of Latvia Singing Revolution Belarusian Popular Front References Lithuania: The Move Toward Independence, 1987-91, Country Study. 1940–1992. Soviet era and the restoration of independence, Estonica, Estonian Institute. Česlovas Laurinavičius, Vladas Sirutavičius. Lietuvos istorija. XII t. Id. Sąjūdis: nuo "Persitvarkymo" iki Kovo 11-osios.2008, External links LIETUVOS PERSITVARKYMO SĄJŪDŽIO STEIGIAMAJAM SUVAŽIAVIMUI – 30 Political history of Lithuania Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic Anti-communism in Lithuania Independence movements Singing Revolution Dissolution of the Soviet Union Pro-independence parties in the Soviet Union