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“Looking at the composition of this board in general, I really think it is very important that the maximum number of factions have their representatives on the board – the vice presidents of the Seimas, as well as the leader of the opposition can and probably will be able to represent the opposition.” , LRT television program said V. Čmilytė-Nielsen.
“If all opposition groups had a representative on the board, I think it would be a really good thing for the democratic process in our parliament,” he added.
He did not rule out the possibility that after the representative of the largest opposition faction of the Lithuanian Union of Greens and Peasants became the leader of the opposition, the Social Democrats were given the post of vice president of the Seimas.
“It may be so, but really, as I have already mentioned, it is an object of coordination and it is really very important that these decisions have the greatest possible support in Seimas,” said the president of Seimas when asked about it.
V. Čmilytė-Nielsen was elected president of the Seimas on Friday.
The two deputies of the Seimas were also approved that day: the conservative Jurgis Razma and the “employee” Andrius Mazuronis.
Ramūnas Karbauskis, leader of the Lithuanian Union of Greens and Peasants, complained that Aušrinė Norkienė, a candidate from the smaller opposition fraction, was not a positive candidate.
V. Čmilytė-Nielsen plans to have six MPs in total.
The appointment of four more vice presidents is expected next week. Under the initial agreement, two more vice presidents of the Seimas should be in the hands of the conservatives, one by the Freedom Party and the other by an opposition faction.
On Friday, six factions were also formed in the new Seimas: Lithuanian Christian National-Democratic Union (50 members), Lithuanian Union of Peasants and Greens (32 members), Liberal Movement (13 members), Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (13 members), Freedom Party (11 members). ) and the Labor Party (10 members).
At the moment, 12 parliamentarians will work in the mixed group of members of the Seimas.
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