Coalition Talks: Full Package of Liberal Movement Proposals Announced

Delphi provides a complete, unedited list of offers. In it, the Liberal Movement writes:

When submitting proposals, we follow the following basic principles:
· More autonomy for the citizen, less dependence on the government.
· The republic is built by free people, an educated and open society.
· The government creates opportunities for a person to create wealth for himself.
· Private initiative should be encouraged and supported.
· We cannot borrow from future generations and consume more than nature can restore.
· Independent and responsible media and strong NGOs: protection against government weaknesses.

1. ECONOMY

1. Reorient DNA’s future plan towards more ambitious projects, review the PAN, its indicators and tools.
2. Reduce the GPM by 1.25 percentage points in four years to 15%. tariff in 2024. An alternative to potential losses are pollution prices, other environmental taxes, reduction in the shade, municipal bonds, new jobs in the circular economy, etc.
3. Reduce VAT on essential food products to 5%, in the construction sector to 9%.
4. Compare NPD with MMA.
5. Refrain from taxing reinvested earnings.

2. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
1. Sign 2021 National Education Agreement.
2. Increase funds per student, student, regardless of the type of educational institution.
3. Ensure that the salary of teachers is not less than 1.5 in VMU.
4. Ensure non-formal education from 2 m. age, including 85 percent. children in this form of education under equal funding conditions throughout Lithuania.
5. Assign at least 1.5 percent. from GDP to R&D.

3. HUMAN RIGHTS

1. Introduce flexibility in maternity and paternity leave. Guarantee as many opportunities as possible for women to return to the labor market more quickly, without losing state benefits and leaving the choice of the best model of maternity and paternity leave to the family.
2. Ratify the Istanbul Convention.
3. Legalize gender neutral alliances.
4. Modify the age limit for candidacy for the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, providing for the possibility of applying from the age of 21.
5. Legalize the preservation of Lithuanian citizenship after acquiring citizenship of another country.
6. Legalize that, at the choice of a citizen of the Republic of Lithuania, his name and surname must be written in Latin alphabet on the identity documents of the Republic of Lithuania in accordance with the procedure established by law.
7. Modify the laws so that state institutions are obliged to take all measures to ensure the principle of respect for the private life of the person and their family, as well as the protection of the honor and dignity of the person derived from the Constitution , among other things.
8. Adopt the Reproductive Health Law so that the most important issues of women’s reproductive health are not regulated solely by orders of the Minister of Health.

4. HEALTH SECTOR

1. Expand and improve the e-health system.
2. Ensure that the primary health care chain becomes the central axis of the health system, increase its financing to 25%.
3. Guarantee equal conditions for the establishment and operation of medical institutions regardless of their form of ownership.
4. Change the drug reimbursement policy to reimburse the most needed drug, not the cheapest one.
5. Reestablish professional self-government, strengthen it by granting the right to license.

5. ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY

1. Agree with the EC on a more ambitious implementation of the Green Course scenario.
2. Drop subsidies and incentives for fossil fuels.
3. Reduce the role of the state in energy (production of heat and electricity).
4. Maintaining the balance: urgent complete completion of the Natura 2000 network, maintaining the existing one
total rate of felling and growth of wood in forests

6. FOREIGN AND DEFENSE POLICY

1. Active policy of eastern association and neighborhood, support for the development of democracy.
2. Ensure that the electricity from the Astravo nuclear power plant is not marketed in Lithuania or the EU.
3. Strengthen Lithuania’s defense capabilities, actively participate in the defense of NATO and the EU.
cooperation format.
4. Strengthen the foundations and cooperation of the EU.
5. Ensure the openness and accessibility of the voluntary national defense service for young people of both sexes.

7. GOVERNMENT AND REGIONAL POLICY

1. Decentralize state governance and return functions (land, employment, social affairs, cultural heritage, etc.) to self-government.
2. Ensure the digitization and development of electronic democracy by guaranteeing online voting as of 2023. in municipal elections, participation of the population in matters of public administration by electronic means, opening of public data.
3. Allow municipalities to issue bonds for projects. Reduce dependence on central government donations and develop measures to increase the financial independence of municipalities, improve the financing and debt system for public investments, and promote the attraction of local and foreign investment.
4. Establish centers of competence of the ministries and their central institutions in the regions. Expand the availability of personalized social services.

8. CULTURE

1. Improve the principles of accounting and protection of heritage, reduce administrative burdens and ensure more fluid cooperation between users of heritage and state and non-governmental institutions. Implement effective wealth management programs to enable residents and businesses to take on wealth management work with more confidence.
2. Reduce barriers to creative society by analyzing administrative and bureaucratic obstacles to culture, to strive for a favorable fiscal and administrative environment for creative activities in line with global practice.
3. Equalize market conditions between the competing cultural sector, between state and municipal institutions and the public and private sector.