After Nausėda’s advisor went to the rallies, a strict assessment: there may be victims

Here, the political scientist of the Mykolas Romeris University (MRU), Rima Urbonaitė, assured in the program that the speech of P. Mačiulis to the protesters could even be understood as a search for support.

“It just came to our knowledge then. And this must be recognized because one thing is to understand and then Mr. Mačiulis’ comments that the president wants to talk to everyone, listen to everyone. But the question then is how to do it. What We have seen that, in principle, Mr Mačiulis’s speech was very political. He even complained to other political opponents. (…) It is like going out here to ask for support for you and you see that you want it.

So the question for me is: did you really go out to listen, or with your political agenda “, the question was posed by political scientist R. Urbonaitė in the Knowledge Radio program” Events and comments “.

The interlocutor of the program said that she was surprised that the president himself did not see the issue.

“He doesn’t see the vocabulary that we sometimes hear from those organizers, like he’s burning the green light like that. Because I have not seen any criticism on what kind of comments are floating from the Presidency. It’s like the green light is on like this and you are still going out and rejoicing, you are very active, ”explained R. Urbonaitė.

Delphi recalls that during the march, the police launched several investigations into the rapes. One of them is due to the uncensored lexicon words in relation to the Member of the Seimas Matas Maldeikis. The politician himself asked that the investigation be stopped.

He said that the political temperature was rising as much as it could, it is not yet clear.

“But there may be victims here,” R. Urbonaitė assessed the situation on the news radio program.

Professor at the Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) prof. Šarūnas Liekis assured that talking to protesters is not a bad thing. He was surprised that, in addition to G. Nausėda’s adviser, P. Mačiulis, other government representatives did not attempt to communicate.

“Communicating with people all the time, going out if the rallies come with one theme or another, is a sign of a certain decency. He would go to the embassies, to the Seimas. I was a bit surprised that his leadership at the Seimas did not want to communicate with the rallies. Because in a democratic system, all those meetings are legitimate ”, assured the interlocutor in the program.

He countered the argument by inviting the audience gathered at the rallies to watch.

“That speech, the margins there or not, is completely incorrect. Because the people there are diverse, with their own beliefs, representing different regions as well as social classes, if you can call it that. (…) For me, all the rhetoric that We hear in the press about all this movement is almost reminiscent of Soviet propaganda. When at one point they saw those who saw Movers with all kinds of words “, Š. Liekis.

“This disapproval of despicable rhetoric towards these people is completely unacceptable because it is a movement of a thousand,” said the political scientist.

R. Urbonaitė sees in the program that he sees very clear tendencies of populism from the declarations and demands of the organizers. But it is not yet clear whether they will be able to turn these rallies into a political entity.

“And what is the president doing here? What do you do to such a derivative? And what is the vision of the president, if he thinks he needs his own political entity, he is really aware of the beginnings of what kind of political entity there may be here. I see those ambitions and those organizers that maybe they want that political entity, but whatever comes out of it, there is even more ‘but’ here. And it will not be very easy to do ”, he assured.

The organizers themselves assure that the creation of a political movement does not promise.