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“We have, for the first time in the history of parliamentarism, a case in which the largest opposition group is not represented. The attempt to say that there will be an opposition leader is intrigue and lying again, knowing very well, and the president of Seimas is well aware that the Peasant and Green faction does not have enough members of the Seimas to have an opposition leader, ” said the Prime Minister at a press conference on Wednesday.
In this way, he reacted to the statements of the spokesperson of the Seimas Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen that after the election of representatives of the smaller opposition factions to the Spokesmen of the Seimas, the faction of the Union of Peasants and Greens of Lithuania ( LVŽS) may have its representative on the meeting.
Under the Statute of the Seimas, if an opposition faction or its coalition has more than half of the Seimas members belonging to a minority of the Seimas, the largest of that faction or the leader of the coalition is called the opposition leader of the Seimas. Seimas. The leader of the opposition enjoys the additional rights of the leader of the opposition provided for in the statute, belongs to the Board of the Seimas.
We are simply accepting that we will be unnecessary as an opposition and will not prevent the ruling majority from driving the bulldozer and achieving our goals, Skvernel said.
Knowing your good work behind the scenes with the other two opposition factions, which already declare that it makes no sense that at least one of them has a written agreement on the opposition leader, it seems that in the near future there will be no opposition leader and we will simply not be represented. in nowhere. “Says S. Skvernelis.
Algirdas Sys, leader of the Social Democratic Party faction, said Tuesday that the party was not willing to sign a special agreement.
After the Seimas on Tuesday rejected Aušrinė Norkien candidate, a candidate of the “peasants”, and appointed the Social Democrat Julius Sabatauskas as vice-president on the recommendation of V.Čmilytė-Nielsen, the largest faction of “peasants” in the opposition has until now, without a representative on the board of Seimas.
S. Skvernel considered that if the “peasants” had tried not to appoint members of the largest opposition faction in 2016, this would have caused great outrage.
“We are simply accepting that we will be unnecessary as the opposition and will not prevent the ruling majority from driving the bulldozer and achieving our goals,” he said.
In disagreement with the appointment of A. Norkienė as vice-presidents, the “peasants” proposed the candidacy of Jonas Jarutis on Tuesday, but V. Čmilytė-Nielsen did not present this candidate to the Seimas. Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the Peasants, promised to petition the Constitutional Court to restrict the rights of a large faction.
The new Seimas has approved six vice-presidents of the Seimas: the conservative Paulius Saudargas, Radvilė Morkūnaitė and Jurgis Razmas, the representative of the Freedom Party Vytautas Mitalas, Andrius Mazuronis, a “hard worker”, and Julius Sabatauskas, a social democrat.
According to the Statute of the Seimas, the head of parliament cannot have more than seven deputies. However, the coalition partners have agreed that there will be six.
The Speaker of the Seimas, after consulting the factions, proposes the candidates for Vice Presidents in such a way that at least two representatives of the opposition of the Seimas are deputies.
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