I. Šimonytė takes the initiative to form a coalition and promises to change the coronavirus management model

Conservative Prime Minister candidate Ingrida Šimonytė announced on Sunday night that she was taking the initiative to form a ruling coalition with two liberal parties, and that becoming the head of government would change the model for managing the coronavirus pandemic.

“So far, it seems that it will have more than half of the votes,” said I. Šimonytė about the possible alliance of the National Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) with the Liberal Movement and the Freedom Party.

I. Šimonytė said that one of his first jobs would be to change the way the pandemic is managed so that there is more transparency in it.

“First of all, it is probably necessary to change the way of management itself, in our opinion, and we have said that many times, in the first place, it must be very clear who talks to whom, what and how decisions are made. “What we lack most today is transparency and clarity, who advises, or still advises, why the Government chooses one or another council and whose word is decisive in this situation,” said I. Šimonytė.

However, on election night he refused to detail possible quarantine decisions and stressed the need to consult with specialists.

I. Šimonytė says that the Freedom Party’s aspirations to legalize same-sex couples and decriminalize soft drugs would not be included in the joint program due to different party regulations, but an attempt would be made to find a “different format to the government program “.

Speaking on the LRT program, he also said that he has candidates for finance and health ministers, but did not name them.

Social Democrats will speak of support

TS-LKD Chairman Gabriel Landsberg said he did not see the need to join other parties in the coalition, but promised to speak to opposition Social Democrats about their proposals in exchange for support on some issues.

“Speaking, I really see the need, the opportunity, and I do not rule out that we will do so by including in the program the work of those parties that may not shape the Government, if they are compatible, with the same Social Democratic Party that we opposed and often defended. very similar principles and values, ”he said.

“I would hope that there would be compatibility, if there was such interest, from your party and I would also expect support for a job that is acceptable to them: we will talk about important jobs in the field of education or work in the field of health,” he said.

Landsberg also said that he believed that the success of the Conservatives could be due to the strategy chosen by the ruling “peasants” to urge “a vote against the Conservatives, Landsberg, the Freedom Party.”

“Our position was different: we encouraged ourselves to vote, they did not criticize us, we did not answer the accusations imposed, we emphasized our advantages, how we understood them, how we expected the voter to understand us, we want to reach the second-round voter (…), that is, the Social Democratic “Labor Parties”, said G. Landsbergis.