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Parliament was so desperately immersed in the chaos of teleworking on Thursday that it decided to adjourn and vote live in plenary next Tuesday. However, the ruling majority is still reluctant to meet part of the opposition’s demand to vaccinate parliamentarians as a priority and without delay.
Opposition peasants and Social Democrats are calling for such a vaccine so that parliamentarians can do their job directly in the workplace and, they say, make it more difficult for rulers to manipulate the government. However, not only the ruler but also the opposition “workers” fear such a move due to possible public outrage at such “privilege”.
Requires return to the room
The remote plenary session of the Seimas that took place this Thursday collapsed, it can be said that it has not started honestly. His agenda was forced to be approved by parliamentarians for about an hour and a half.
The reason is a large number of technical problems and disturbances that have prevented the members of the Seimas, many of whom do not know much about computers, both to participate in the session and to guide what is happening in general.
Opposition representatives soon began to demand one after another that the head of parliament, Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, take a break during which politicians meet at the Seimas and sit down live. The politicians also demanded that the Seimas leadership end the remote session in general and that at least the plenary sessions be held live again.
Initially, the Speaker of the Seimas categorically opposed this. He said that the problems were temporary and related mainly to the problems of the computer system itself, and not to the shortcomings of the parliament and its equipment.
However, after breaks and urgent special consultations from the parliamentary leadership, V. Čmilytė-Nielsen was forced to come down and close the session, before the bill providing for mandatory testing of the used in some areas to detect coronavirus.
In addition, it was announced that the parliament will meet live next Tuesday.
See deliberate sabotage
But the opposition representatives of the Seimas claim that such a distraction is detrimental not only to the work of the parliament, but also to its prestige. According to them, all members of the Seimas must be vaccinated in the order of priority and these games must be completed.
The main opposition candidate, Saulius Skvernelis, a former peasant prime minister, resented “Lietuvos rytas” because the Seimas leadership did not want to do it and shared the suspicions that it was being made due to political deductions.
According to him, the rulers, on the one hand, want to neutralize as far as possible the opposition, on the other hand, the entire Seimas, thus opening their hands to themselves and to the Government. The confused and disabled parliament and its opposition, according to S. Skvernelis, no longer interfere with the spikes of power, which are not coping with the management of the pandemic anyway.
In addition, according to S. Skvernelis, several parliamentarians have already contracted the coronavirus, so not everyone should be vaccinated.
Thus, the main opposition force, the peasants and the Social Democrats who support them in this matter, recently presented a request to the president of the Seimas to consider the vaccination of the entire Seimas a priority. He forwarded it to the leaders of all parliamentary groups, asking for their opinion.
However, it was already clear this week that the will of the peasants and the Social Democrats will not be destined to come true. After all, they weren’t even supported by the third opposition group: the Labor Party.
His representatives told Lietuvos Rytas that some members of the faction tended to get vaccinated as soon as possible, but the view prevailed that it was too dangerous in a political and public relations sense. The Seimas and all its sides will be hit by a wave of criticism and the wrath of the nation, so it would be better to wait their turn with ordinary mortals.
I just want AstraZeneca
The same opinions that the Labor Group seem to have the governing authorities.
Leadership of the Liberal Movement Group lrytas.lt He stated that there was no consensus within the group and that it was divided. However, it was later decided that politicians had to queue and not move forward, and the best thing to do would be to vaccinate with the AstraZeneca vaccine, leading the rulers to one of the biggest communication failures of the entire legislature.
On Tuesday, the head of government I.Šimonytė and Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys unequivocally promised to continue vaccination with this vaccine, despite all the rumors and rumors about the alleged complications.
However, the vaccination with the vaccine was stopped a few hours later, justifying the “recommendations” of the State Agency for the Control of Medicines of the Ministry.
Despite the fact that the European Medicines Agency itself declared the vaccine safe on Thursday and its vaccination was renewed in Lithuania, senior state officials were quick to rescue the reputation of the entire vaccination company.
The prime minister, the president of the Seimas V.Čmilytė-Nielsen and the president Gitanas Nausėda himself, as well as A.Dulkys promised to vaccinate AstraZeneca in public on Monday.
The Liberal Movement, which also issued an official statement on the matter, also expressed its desire to be vaccinated with this vaccine.
The same position lrytas.lt Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė, the leaders of the ruling faction of the Freedom Party, as well as the leader of the conservatives of the Seimas and vice president of parliament. According to her, the members of the group will only wait their turn to get vaccinated, and AstraZeneca in particular.
At the same time, the representatives of both groups stated that they also had different points of view on the issue, and that not even a formal discussion took place between the conservatives, leaving the decision-making power to the leaders.
