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He said he didn’t vote for
„[Balsavau] for the same as in the first round, but I certainly did not vote for those who for four years only dedicated themselves to the sick search for enemies and prohibitions. Definitely not for those, “the head of state told reporters.
On the ballot, he had to choose between two candidates from the Nemenčinė constituency: members of the Polish Electoral Action Union of Lithuanian Christian Families, Interior Minister Rita Tamašunienė and a representative of the conservatives Justas Džiugelis.
Photo by Julius Kalinskas / 15min / Dalia Grybauskaitė
The outgoing president urged citizens to actively express their will in elections, to go to the polls, not to be lazy.
“Today, all Lithuanian citizens have great power in our hands, so I strongly invite everyone to come and demonstrate that power, that is, to elect those we trust. This is the only day, elections, when all Lithuanian citizens can decide what the government will be like, ”he said.
D. Grybauskaitė stated that he was in no rush to evaluate the results of the first round of elections: “There is no need to evaluate; the elections end only after the second round, I would not be in a hurry to evaluate. Let’s see what the second round will be like. “
When asked and how he evaluates the electoral campaign, the head of state responded by comparing it.
What is political life, what is the quality of political parties, this is the election.
“What is political life, what is the quality of political parties, this is the election,” he said.
The outgoing head of state assured that after the Seimas elections he will continue to participate in public life in Lithuania, but not in politics.
“Definitely I will not participate actively in politics,” he said.
Transmission from the Vilnius district municipality:
Predict limitations after elections
By calculating the 14-day COVID-19 morbidity rate per 100,000. population, reached 87.4 in Lithuania, the number of seriously ill people is growing, we have more and more hospitalized patients, but politicians avoid strict restrictions, saying that the virus must be managed locally and that decisions can be made by municipalities .
Or are there no restrictions for the Seimas elections?
“I think some of these fears are probably correct. I think that after the elections there will be those regulations and those measures that are partially delayed,” said D. Grybauskaitė.
According to her, the government is slow to make decisions “on reducing group meetings and social grouping.”
“It just came to our notice then. We know that there are practically no epidemiologists in the hospitals, planned services are being reduced, some departments are being vacated. These are really the signs that the government should have been paying attention to for a long time.” pointed out D. Grybauskaitė.
The COVID-19 pandemic, he said, will also be reflected in next year’s budget.
“The pandemic will regulate the lives of all of us in the near future, including the budget,” said D. Grybauskaitė.
It is true that the president assumed that the state and municipal budgets of next year would be different from those that the government now presents: “The budget that is now presented is really regulated and affected by the pandemic, and we will see it in a completely different final version. “.
Preliminary voting in the second round of the Seimas elections will continue until Thursday night, Election Day, Sunday.
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