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Ingrida Šimonytė, a candidate for the post of Prime Minister, said Thursday that she was waiting for official proposals from the Liberal Movement and the Freedom Parties for the future agreement.
“I received guarantees that tomorrow (Thursday – BNS) this morning I will receive from both colleagues what is an official document. We will present what was approved today by the Presidium of the Patria Union. After evaluating the proposals of others, we can all see if there are positions in that landscape that need to be specifically negotiated, if they can simply be included in the coalition agreement because they do not cause more controversy, or if a wording can be found that does not cause more. controversy. “- On Wednesday, after the Presidium meeting of the Union of the Homeland-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD), I. Šimonytė told reporters.
The Presidium of the Conservatives approved two negotiators for the formation of the coalition: the president of the party Gabrielius Landsbergis and I. Šimonytė.
Landsbergis joked that this center-right coalition would be formed remotely, by phone or conference call with partners.
“Half jokingly, but very seriously, we say that this may be the first Zoom coalition, to be formed for the most part, perhaps remotely. On Sunday we tried it because Victoria could not attend ”, said the director of TS-LKD.
Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, the president of the Liberal Movement, has been in self-isolation since Sunday due to her contacts with people infected with COVID-19.
The Liberal Movement has previously approved eight areas that it wants to include in the coalition treaty, and the Freedom Party has five points.
According to V. Čmilytė-Nielsen, the liberals will have proposals on fiscal policy, as well as education, human rights, health, environment, energy, foreign policy, culture and public administration.
In the economic field, the Freedom Party will target a zero rate for reinvested earnings from 2021, no increase in personal income taxes, a friendly environment for business development, reduction of bureaucracy. and regulation, also emphasizes the modernization of education, updating the curricula, making IT a third language of instruction.
The Freedom Party will also seek the commitment of the coalition partners to hold a referendum on multiple citizenship, legalization of personal names on the main document page in all letters of the Latin alphabet, quick decisions within 100 days to legalize the same-sex couples, decriminalization of the possession of psychoactive substances without purpose.
After the Seimas elections that ended on Sunday, the TS-LKD, the Liberal Movement and the Union for Freedom announced a future center-right coalition. In the new parliament, these parties should have at least 74 votes out of 141.
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