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“It will be difficult to find a better candidate for chancellors like Linas Linkevičius alongside the new president, because it is not only notoriety, but also some influence,” Juozas Bernatonis, vice president of LSDDP, said at a news conference on Monday.
“I think it would be beneficial for Lithuania if the foreign minister remains the same, all the more so because he is not a party person and it cannot be attributed to us and we do not attribute it to ourselves.” He’s just a professional, “he added.
Party chairman Gediminas Kirkilas also emphasized that continuity in these positions is very important, as personal political relationships play an important role in helping to achieve Lithuania’s foreign policy goals.
“At the highest level, personal connections between politicians determine many decisions, so it is a very high value,” Kirkilas said.
L. Linkevičius was an LSDDP candidate in the Lithuanian World Constituency District, where he obtained 13.02 percent. votes and was third.
L. Linkevičius is serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs for a second term. He led the LSDDP list in a constituency of several members, but the party suffered a defeat without breaking the barrier.
Kirkilas promises to seek the mobilization of the Social Democrats
If the Lithuanian Social Democratic Labor Party does not exceed 5 percent. Gediminas Kirkilas, the party chairman, says he will seek the unification of the social democratic forces, since the threshold and their representatives have not yet reached the Seimas.
According to him, this issue is especially relevant if one takes into account that the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party led by Gintautas Paluckas did not live up to expectations.
“We have always sought to consolidate the social democratic forces, that issue always remains on the agenda. There were long negotiations in earlier times, when the Lithuanian Democratic Labor Party and the Social Democrats were there. When they merged, it happened when both parties lost. By the way, the situation is similar now, “he said at a press conference.
“Our party can play a consolidating role on the real social democratic flank. This is our role, I think,” said the leader of the social workers.
Mr. Kirkilas has also assured that he will continue to participate in party activities, but he is taking responsibility for the lost elections and intends to hand over leadership to other leaders at the December convention.
“All leaders have to take responsibility for the election and I really take it, we will have a congress in December and we will decide. We have to choose, there are people who can be leaders and are already leaders in a sense, they have experience in parliamentary work. , experience in government work, so the potential is there, ”said the party leader.
According to him, one of the possible candidates to lead the party could be Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius, who lost the elections in the Lithuanian single-member constituency, but is not yet partisan and, according to G. Kirkilas, has not decided on the future. political.
At that time, the vice president of the party, Juozas Bernatonis, announced that he was retiring from active politics.
“It was my seventh pick for the Seimas, five were successful, the second was not. And I no longer plan to run for the Seimas, I will just help other like-minded people prepare,” said J. Bernatonis.
Kirkilas says he will still decide in the second round whether the majority will be made up of the center-right or center-left parties and still awaits the victory of four representatives of social workers in single-member electoral districts.
“Even depending on which parties are participating in the second round, as well as our four candidates, we hope they win, it is not decided whether it will be the center-left government or the center-right government. Most likely, there are only these two options and possible (…) and I hope that in the second round, people think a lot, especially in this situation, about their decisions. But, of course, it will be most of the personality, “he said,” he said.
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