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According to the press release of the Social Democrats, the party is “preparing to be a constructive opposition.”
The group notes that it will “follow with great concern the provisions of the coalition agreement that may be included in the privatization of the health system and will do everything possible to oppose such efforts.” In the opinion of the LSDP faction, the healthcare system in Lithuania should be public and financed with all the taxes we pay, ”says the LSDP report.
As announced in the LSDP group’s circulated position on the job for 2020-2024. During the Seimas term, the Social Democrats also expressed concern about the tax provision in the coalition program, which does not provide for additional tax revenue.
“Currently, the public sector financing situation is bad and the budget is tight. Without new tax revenue in the education sector, it will not be possible to increase funding for health care, ”the document says.
It is also noted that the new term LSDP faction is also concerned about the possible introduction of online voting in the 2023 or 2024 elections, which, according to them, is also skeptical on the part of cybersecurity specialists.
“It is not possible to guarantee the security, reliability and anonymity of voting online at the same time,” the document says.
The LSDP group also claims that it will actively monitor the employment situation and “oppose by all means further liberalization of labor relations and the ambitions of some coalition partners to introduce zero-hour labor contracts, thereby further reducing employment. job security”.
Attention is also drawn to the issue of climate change, which is not addressed in the coalition agreement of the future ruling coalition.
“The faction is concerned that there is not a single word in the future coalition program that responds directly to climate change, and that this fundamental threat to the survival of Lithuania and the world will not become part of the government’s agenda is an issue of great concern to us, “the statement said.
The position of the Social Democrats also expresses opposition to the introduction of programming as a third language in schools.
Supports initiatives to legalize the association, ratify the Istanbul Convention, promises to open the “Registration Center” data
However, the LSDP also highlighted some of the governance issues it would support. As previously announced, the Social Democrats promise to support initiatives to legalize same-sex couples, the abolition of criminal liability for possession of small amounts of psychoactive substances, and the ratification of the Istanbul Convention.
“(Social Democrats – ELTA) will support initiatives to ensure a higher quality of legal acts and will propose its own projects that would allow the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania to evaluate the impact of legal acts on budget revenue or the economy,” read in the LSDP report.
It is also announced that the group will support initiatives to strengthen unions, non-governmental organizations and free and independent media by opening the Data Center.
The LSDP states that it will support “the desire to guarantee the rights of the Lithuanian national minorities included in the annex to the coalition agreement.”
“We will not limit ourselves to the aspirations mentioned in the annex to the treaty, but we will fight for the issue of the education of national minorities in their mother tongue to be included in the national agreement on education,” the document reads.
Finally, the Social Democrats emphasize support for the struggle for human rights in Lithuania and Belarus, which are important to Lithuania, and promise to ask the new government to “evaluate the restrictions on women’s rights in Poland and restrictions on the freedom of the press and the opposition in Poland and Hungary “.
ELTA recalls that the National Christian Democratic Union of Lithuania, the Liberal Movement and the Freedom Party signed a coalition agreement on Monday. The Seimas of the new mandate will meet for the first plenary session on Friday.
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