Šimonytė does not want to move from his house in the Pavilnis gardens to a residence in Turniškės

The TV3 journalists managed to enter this heavily guarded Turniškės territory and see with their own eyes where a potential head of government should live.

The building intended for the residence of the head of government in Turniškės is currently empty, no one lives in it, but it is constantly maintained and heated. So, to stay in it, you can come even today.

This house has been empty for four years, when Algirdas Butkevičius moved out of it. There are few neighbors: after Dalia Grybauskaitė moved in, only Valdas and Alma Adamka live behind the fence.

Just last summer, Saulius Skvernelis and his family stayed at the prime minister’s residence while their home was being repaired. Now here is the confusion again: under the command of the government chancellery, environmental managers and workers are plagued, because when Lithuania receives a new prime minister, the keys to this door must be handed to him immediately. The house is impressive – a total area of ​​600 square meters, of which about half – living space.

“The object has 259 living space, on the second floor there are 3 bedrooms, on the first there is a living room with a kitchen, a study. There is a mini gym in the basement and sanitary facilities ”, says Marius Krutkis, representative of the Government Chancellery.

The maintenance and upkeep of a building with gas heating, even if no one lives in it, costs taxpayers up to 800 euros per month.

“During the last 4 years, we have not had a fixed monthly cost. Areas, internal maintenance, cleaning jobs were ordered as needed. When calculating the costs of the last 4 years, the average is 600 to 800 euros ”, says M. Krutkis.

However, it is unknown if this house will receive a new occupant. Ingrida Šimonytė, appointed future prime minister, does not want to live there.

“It just came to our knowledge then. I want to live at home. I have a place to live, I want to live in my own home like any normal person. But since the Prime Minister is protected by law, whether my candidacy happens to be approved, it depends. from the people of the Administrative Security Department to see if they can protect me according to their canons and standards in my home. Of course, the most convenient thing for me would be to live in my own house, “says Ingrida Šimonytė, leader of the Conservative Party.

Ingrida Šimonytė lives in a house in the gardens of the capital, Pavilnis. Management security officers should install security cameras here, and a guard room should be built for the guards. The examples of President Nausėda and Saulius Skvernelis also show that officials can do it, because they still live in their own homes. In addition, road users allegedly paved the roads leading to their homes with new asphalt.

If Ingrida Šimonytė, after becoming Prime Minister, decides to live in her house, the road will not be very comfortable for the security officers who transport her again. You will need to drive on a gravel road with holes.

Thus, in the opinion of former Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius, who had to move to Turniškės and in whose government Šimonytė worked as Finance Minister, the lives of heads of state in their homes and the installation of security around their homes is a waste. unjustifiable taxpayer money.

“It would be better to solve this problem in Lithuania once and for all by registering the obligation for all protected persons, the president, the prime minister and the president of the Seimas to live in the residence. Live in such a way that there are no problems for protection that corresponds to these people according to the law ”, said MEP Andrius Kubilius.

The state also considers living space for the Speaker of the Seimas. It is true that it is not a house, but a spacious 130 square meter 4-room apartment in the Seimas Hotel, next to which there are special rooms and security. However, the would-be liberal Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, named at the head of the Seimas, does not dream of moving into this apartment. The politician living in Šiauliai claims that he has no space to live in Vilnius and is currently isolated in a hotel in Seimas.

“It is too early to say. The question about the president of the Seimas is open, I do not think about that,” says the member of the Seimas, Liberal Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen.

The current spokesperson for the Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis did not want to live in this apartment, so for most of the four-year term, security guards transport him back and forth from the Seimas to his home in the Kaunas district almost everyone the days. The administration’s security service keeps secret how much it costs taxpayers to protect the country’s leaders in their homes and travel to them.