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A member of Seimas, Olympic champion Virgilijus Alekna continues to rank in the top ten, followed by Trakai District Mayor Edita Rudelienė.
Sixth: the ex-president of the Eugenijus Gentvilas party, followed by Professor TSPMI, political scientist Raimundas Lopata Member of Seimas, Vice-president of the Environmental Protection Committee Simonas Gentvilas, Chief Consultant for Human Rights of the Ombudsman of Seimas, expert in protocol and label Arminas Lydeka, Vice President of the Party, former Kauno.
V. Čmilytė-Nielsen told the party council that the Liberal Movement has a solid basis for gaining the trust of voters.
“Not only have we renewed, but we have also preserved our organizational and creative potential. We have established ourselves as a parliamentary force whose opinion needs to be heard and we are a growing and growing party, ”the president told the party council.
She emphasized that the Liberal Movement is the only party that has retained the concept of liberalism in its name.
“We are liberals, not obscured by various euphemisms. In my opinion, liberalism is not the freedom to do what I want or a service to any interest,” said V. Čmilytė-Nielsen.
At the time, Seimas President V. Pranckietis, who announced plans to participate in elections with the Liberals this week, stated that it was no coincidence that this party was on the list.
“It just caught our eye then. I probably walked with such thoughts and a little bit of jealousy, always thinking that I could also identify with that community,” said the Seimas spokesman.
“I have no interest in betting only on the match card, I have an interest in all of Lithuania, so I showed up where the problems of all of Lithuania are being resolved,” he said.
According to V. Pranckietis, the unifying and creative aspects can be found in the program of the Liberal Movement.
“I delved into the program, into a narrower and broader one. I think that in it we can discover things that would unite us, lead us, create them and not dismantle them,” said V. Pranckietis.
The Seimas president thanked the party council for the confidence shown and joked that “it probably didn’t deserve too much.”
The guidelines for the electoral program were presented at the party council on Saturday. According to V. Čmilytė-Nielsen, the program distinguishes five main directions: opportunities for self-employed people, a strong health care system, education, green economics and human rights.
Simonas Kairys, the vice president who introduced the program, said the liberals will seek to reduce the personal income tax (PIT) and the value added tax (VAT).
The program declares a desire to work effectively with foreign investors and startups: Liberals said they were committed to creating 50,000 jobs by 2025. New jobs in the bioeconomy and circular economy. In addition, the party promises to encourage private investment in the development of renewable energy.
The program also aims to clean all Lithuanian rivers from contamination and increase forest cover to 35 percent.
In the field of education, the model of an independent school is proposed, in the national defense system S. Kairys emphasized the activation of the civil resistance as direct support to the army and the commitment to constantly increase the financing of national defense .
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