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Professor Vytautas Landsbergis is associated with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the restoration of the state. Algirdas Mokylas Brazauskas with the beginning of integration, Valdas Adamkus – with Western integration. Rolandas Paksas also distinguished himself by the first political trial in Europe. And Dalia Grybauskaitė was a brilliant fighter against Russian aggression.
And now what has never happened before is a lazy president, thinks conservative Andrius Kubilius.
“Even after the elections, it was already a little clear to me what idea, what program would come to the office of President G. Nausėda. And I already said then that if you don’t have a clear presidential program, then we can face an insignificant presidential syndrome, “said A. Kubilius.
According to the former prime minister of the crisis, this syndrome manifests itself in the fact that the president is desperate to be visibly significant. But when there is no strategic agenda, there is only competition with the government for a pandemic or vaccines.
“This is perhaps one of the reasons we constantly see the retirement of his most important advisers, the team,” said conservative A. Kubilius.
The politician is considering that the role of G. Nausėda may become more or less similar to that of the King of Sweden: popular, but not very significant.
Andrius Kubilius
The member of the Seimas, chairman of the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Žygimantas Pavilionis, declared that the disagreements are increasingly clear.
“I hope they are addressed,” said the politician.
Recently, conservatives and G. Nausėda have been pushing not only for vaccines, but also for foreign policy.
According to the Constitution, the President decides on the main foreign policy issues and exercises foreign policy together with the Government.
Ž. Pavilionis says the president’s success will depend on cooperation with the government.
“What is the Presidency? This is one person and a few other advisers. But the entire government, all the ministers and the entire parliament. After all, it is still a parliamentary republic. “It is natural for foreign partners to work with those who have real strength, power and trust from the people,” said the politician.
That the friction between the president and the ruling party begins in the long term is not a sensation. But conservatives began to confront President G. Nausėda unusually quickly, from the earliest days.
The party does not hide its dissatisfaction with the way in which the selection of ministers was carried out.
“As you have heard, comments have been made in the public sphere about absolutely all the candidates, with the exception of Gabriel Landsbergis,” Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė said in December last year.
Subsequently, there were disagreements on the appointment of the ambassador, I. Šimonytė criticized the fiscal initiatives proposed by the president.
And it was all crowned by the idea put forward by the conservative Matas Maldeikis, but certainly without the blessing of the leadership that Prime Minister I. Šimonytė and not President G. Nausėda should go to the European Council (EVS).
“Conservatives have such a tendency to fight. I think sometimes it is with reason, sometimes without reason,” political scientist Kęstutis Girnius told LNK.
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He said conservatives are constantly attacking the country’s leader.
“I think the conservatives understand that they are not doing very well. This government has begun to work slowly, without making sufficiently effective decisions, so they feel the pressure. And I think it is convenient for them to partially begin these attacks against the president , to say that here a person does not interfere in their own affairs, it makes their work difficult ”, said the political scientist K. Girnius.
Former Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas believes that the conservatives’ fight against the president is the first swallow in the upcoming elections. The year 2024 will be special, with presidential and Seimas elections.
“Conservatives and the ruling coalition must do well in this case to be viewed positively. And President G. Nausėda is quite critical. And that is why these two sides will definitely be competitors,” he said.
Speaking to the LNK, G. Kirkilas recalls when the conservatives who won the 1996 elections acted formally and informally against then-president A. Brazauskas.
Prime Minister Gediminas Vagnorius had advised his ministers not to communicate with or meet with the president. The party of A. Brazauskas won the next elections to the Seimas.
“It just came to our attention then. Because A. Brazauskas clearly told the public and the media. People did not like the fact that the president is isolated, restricted and without information,” said politician G. Kirkilas.
G. Nausėda remains popular in society and not everyone likes conservative militancy. Is there a winner in this fight?
“It just came to our attention then. Here’s the main problem,” former Prime Minister G. Kirkilas told LNK News.
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