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Seimas Elections:
* The first round of the Seimas elections in the multi-member constituency was won by the opposition Lithuanian Christian National-Democratic Union: 24.8 percent voted for the Conservatives. voters will receive 23 seats in parliament. The ruling Lithuanian Green and Peasant Union remained in second place, receiving 17.5 percent. votes and 16 seats. The Labor Party received 9.47 percent. and nine seats, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, 9.26 percent. and eight terms. For the first time in the parliamentary elections, the Freedom Party obtained 9.02 percent. votes and secured eight seats, the Liberal Movement – 6.79 percent. and six terms. Lithuania’s Polish election campaign: the Union of Christian Families and the Social Democratic Labor Party did not cross the electoral barrier. The Freedom Party performed better and the Social Democrats beat the polls. In the Seimas elections, 47.52 percent expressed their will. voters: three percentage points less than during the 2016 elections.
* Gabrielius Landsbergis, chairman of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party-National Union, says the new Seimas will seek to form a broad government “coalition coalition” that could meet a wider range of voters’ expectations. The peasants and the Social Democrats, for their part, do not rule out the possibility that they may be able to form a center-left coalition.
* After the liberal parties received considerable support in the Seimas elections, the head of the Lithuanian Trade Union Confederation fears that social welfare will be left out of the political agenda. According to economists, the success of the liberals shows that the people want more economic and personal freedoms. Some analysts believe that education should be a priority for the new governors.
Coronavirus situation:
* 125 new confirmed coronavirus cases per day. 105 patients with COVID-19 are treated in hospitals, 15 of them in resuscitation.
* The government is considering reducing the mandatory duration of isolation from 14 to 10 days. According to the Minister of Health, Aurelijus Veryga, the new procedure would apply to both the sick and the exposed. “The general conclusions of scientists have been presented, there are things so optimistic that people who have even been infected, but have mild symptoms, become infectious soon enough,” said A. Veryga.
Sigismund Gedvila / 15min photo / Aurelijus Veryga
* In the event of a small coronavirus outbreak, China plans to test more than 9 million people in five days. Residents of the port city of Qingdao. This will be the first massive test after a break of several months.
Situation in Belarus:
* The foreign ministers of the European Union have announced their readiness to impose sanctions on the authoritarian Belarusian President Aliaksandr Lukashenko.
* After Lukashenko’s meeting with opposition representatives detained in the solitary confinement of the State Security Committee (KGB), the director of PandaDoc, Dzmitryjus Rabcevičius, and the political scientist Juras Vaskrasenskis were released.
* About 600 protesters were arrested in Belarus on Sunday. In Minsk, a total of some 3,000 people have been prosecuted since the protests began. people.
* Former Belarusian presidential candidate Sviatlana Cichanouskaya opposes the idea of forming a government in exile and believes that such a scheme is outdated and ineffective, urging that the various government representatives she appointed should not be considered a government in exile.
The purchase of G.Žiemelis. Gediminas Žiemelis, shareholder and chairman of the board of the aviation business group Avia Solutions Group, buys the companies that manage the Vilnius Siemens and Panevėžys Cido arenas, as well as the ticket distribution company Tiketa.
Litgrid boss. Daivis Virbickas, CEO of Litgrid, the electricity transmission company of the state-owned Epso-G group, has been fired. He ran the company for seven years. D.Virbickas leaves the company by mutual agreement.
Economy Prize. American economists Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson won the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work in commercial auctions. They were honored for improvements in auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.
Sanctions for Russia. EU foreign ministers agreed in principle to support proposals by Germany and France to impose sanctions on Russian officials for the poisoning of opposition spokesman Alexei Navaln. Technical work on sanctions should start soon.
Supreme Court of the United States. The United States Senate has begun hearing the candidacy of Justice Amy Coney Barrett for Supreme Court justices. The nine-member court currently has five conservative judges. The judges of the Supreme Court are appointed for life. Democrats and their presidential candidate Joe Biden are demanding a postponement of the appointment after the presidential election, but President Donald Trump is pushing for this to be done as soon as possible.
Arctic mission. The world’s largest expedition to the North Pole returned to Germany on Monday and set out more than a year ago to collect data to help researchers better understand the effects of climate change in the Arctic.
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