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Photo 7Gabriel Landsberg likes Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen. Photo by Stasys Žumbis
Strict “no”
Conservatives who did not enter the Thirteenth Government remained in opposition, so they could continue to believe that they would not cooperate with the “workers.” The same highly moral vocabulary remained when the Labor Party, as a legal entity, was indicted for black accounting and in April 2008, handed over to the court.
Or maybe we try?
The fundamentally moral vocabulary of the Conservatives has not changed since 2008. The October elections to the Seimas, which were won by the Conservatives and Arūnas Valinskas’ Resurrection Party. The Andrius Kubilius Coalition for Change was formed at that time from the TS-LKDP, the Resurrection of the Nation, the still very pure Liberal Movement of Eligijus Masiulis, and the Union of Liberals and the Center. However, oh times and customs! The “party” of A. Valinskas clashed and split. There was a threat that the Coalition for Change in the Seimas would lack votes in its favor. Therefore, at the end of October 2009, Prime Minister A. Kubilius already said publicly that the Conservatives were willing to negotiate that the party is on trial is not an obstacle for the Conservatives then or now. Just a trump card that can be turned one way or another. Depending on the situation, name another party a sheep or a wolf.
Strict “no” again
After 2012 The then social democrat and now green Algirdas Butkevičius became prime minister of the Seimas elections held in How to deal with the still enlightened Labor Party? Admitted to the government or rejected? Dalia Grybauskaitė kerosene filling:
“The party suspected of having committed the most serious irregularities in the elections, suspected of black accounting, cannot participate in the formation of the government. Therefore, I will only support that political force that will be able to form a majority without a seat in the Labor Party. “
D. Grybauskaitė was also supported by A. Kubilius:
“The ruling coalition with the Labor Party, in my opinion, is really detrimental both to the authority of the state and to the Social Democrats themselves, but this is their business. I can very simply say that if the Social Democrats themselves finally realize that already It is not possible to sacrifice the prestige of the state and the prestige of the party, so I see every possibility of forming a coalition without the Labor Party. “
Principles change depending on the situation
Have the Conservatives themselves come forward to the coalition? Probably. But A. Butkevičius formed the government without them. The Labor Party received the posts of Ministers of Energy, Culture and Agriculture.
Thus, politicians have shown that suspicions and courts expressed to parties as legal persons become completely irrelevant when those parties are useful in the puzzles of the ruling coalitions. Premieres simply lose their memory. As now, Ingrida Šimonyte is not hampered in any way by the fact that the Liberal Movement on trial has not yet been acquitted by a court. An unusual businessman would hire a person as the director of his company for corruption. But to the ruling coalition, which has been in charge of our state for 4 years, please?
A challenge to the state
Vytautas Bakas, a former member of the Seimas and former chairman of the Seimas Defense and National Security Committee, said that the fact that the Conservatives had elected members of the Liberal Union on trial by the ruling coalition was not just a problem for the TS-LKDP:
“This is a challenge for the entire Lithuanian state and its entire society. Conservative votes alone will not be sufficient to elect the President of the Seimas. The approval of other factions of the Seimas will also be required. If the parliamentarians elect Ms. Victory as Speaker of the Seimas, we will have a very bad and very dangerous precedent in the history of Lithuanian parliamentarianism, when the parliamentarian whose party is on trial is appointed Speaker of the Seimas. And the ministers of the trial party will work in the government. A party that is being tried not for a misdemeanor, but in one of the largest corruption cases in Lithuania. This is a challenge for the entire parliamentary state, in which the Seimas has the greatest political power. If Ms. Victoria wins the chess match in the election of the President of the Seimas, then none of the opponents in the tournament lose, but the Lithuanian state and its society lose. “
Seimas member, conservative Kęstutis MASIULIS comments on the situation:
“I do not know, I do not want to explain too much those circumstances (that the conservatives in the Seimas formed a coalition with the representatives of the party on trial – aut.past.). For the Liberal Movement, let the commanders know. Is this always the case in politics? No, not always. It was an ugly case with the liberals and cannot be hidden. Yes (suspicions of political corruption) do not exist and should not exist in politics, and if that has happened, it is a shameful case. But we can put our hands to the sides, portray the saints, but then someone else, other parties, will form the ruling coalition. You have to close your eyes and work.
Those individuals who did wrong are no longer in the Liberal Movement. But the party must take responsibility for its actions. Those actions are bad, but the party can atone for those sins. I personally know many liberals and they seem to me to be decent people. And party leader Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen has a lot of inner intelligence. Let’s be Catholic. After all, a party can atone for its sins. This party can clean. I myself will definitely vote for V. Čmilytė-Nielsen to become the president of the Seimas. “
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