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Seimas elections:
* The opposition conservatives won the Seimas elections and began negotiations on a ruling coalition with two liberal parties. President Gitanas Nausėda declared his determination to appoint Ingrid Šimonytė as Prime Minister. “It is entirely logical to wish I. Šimonyte success in the post of Prime Minister. Until then, however, all the necessary work must be done regarding the formation of the coalition and the division of ministerial portfolios,” said G. Nausėda to journalists The Liberal Movement has stated that it will seek the post of President of the Seimas and three ministers, and the Conservatives and the Freedom Party have so far refrained from commenting on specific portfolios.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Gitanas Nausėda
* In the new parliament, the Union of the Fatherland – the Lithuanian Christian Democrats will have 50 representatives and the peasants won 30 seats. The Liberal Movement and Social Democrats will each have 13 representatives in the Seimas, the Freedom Party – 11, the Labor Party – 10, the Polish Lithuanian Election Campaign – the Union of Christian Families and the Lithuanian Social Democratic Labor Party – three each , the Freedom and Justice Party and the Lithuanian Green Party. Four independent candidates have been elected to parliament.
* Businesses say they expect fiscal stability and economic instruments from the new government to manage the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. The unions are concerned that the liberals in power do not reduce social guarantees for workers.
Coronavirus situation:
* 766 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Lithuania per day; this is a new record. Two people died from coronavirus, both had comorbidities, one in the age group 50-60 years and the other older than 60 years.
* The government announced new restrictions on Monday: many events are planned to be banned in the coming days, sports competitions will have to be held without spectators and in municipalities where quarantine is introduced, masks will be mandatory in all public places. The quarantine will be introduced in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, as well as in the districts of Šilalė, Širvintos, Telšiai, Trakai and Vilnius from Wednesday.
* As of Monday, a new procedure came into force, according to which the opening hours of bars, restaurants and discos are limited until midnight, and its visitors will be required to register.
* Vilnius Gediminas Technical University will switch to full distance learning from Wednesday. Vilnius University, Vytautas Magnus University and Mykolas Romeris University have been working remotely since Monday. For the second week in a row, the Kaunas University of Technology organizes distance learning, with some exceptions.
Astravo power plant. Belarusian operator Belenergo informed Lithuania that the start of electricity generation at the Astrava nuclear power plant is scheduled for November 1-10. Lithuanian electricity transmission system operator Litgrid will block imports of electricity from Belarus from the start of the plant’s electricity production.
“Scanpix” / AP nuotr./Sviatlana Cichanouskaja
Universal strike. Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Cichanouskaya has said her supporters are launching a nationwide strike after the deadline for the resignation of authoritarian President Aliaksandr Lukashenko. The arrests of dozens of people are reported on Monday following the announcement of this “popular ultimatum.” The Belarusian regime ensures that all industrial companies operate normally.
A failed ceasefire. The third attempt to end the fight for Nagorno-Karabakh failed. As soon as the ceasefire came into force, Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other of their violations. Washington on Sunday announced the latest “humanitarian ceasefire” after the collapse of previous initiatives of this kind, which were tested across Russia and France.
Boycott Turkey. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the Turks to boycott French products in response to Paris’ tougher stance on radical Islam. A boycott of French products is already taking place in supermarkets in Qatar and Kuwait. A boycott of French products is also being called for in Jordan and other countries.
Sanctions in the United States. Beijing said on Monday it would impose sanctions on Lockheed Martin, Boeing Defense, Space & Security and other US companies that contribute to arms sales to Taiwan, an autonomous island that China considers its territory.
CO2 neutrality. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga set a 2050 deadline for the country to become carbon neutral. Previously, Tokyo planned to achieve climate neutrality sometime in the second half of this century. Critics have called that goal of the world’s third-largest economy vague.
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