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According to the head of the country, the issues on the government’s agenda should be quarantine, vaccination and helping people keep their jobs, not whether the prime minister should go to European Union summits instead of the president. .
“We have so many questions today and the government has so many problems: quarantine, vaccination and the period after the pandemic or quarantine, how will we help open our businesses, how will we help people keep jobs or find new jobs, places if some businesses. they stop, ”G. Nausėda told reporters in Kaunas.
“Raising this issue of representation in the European Council today is a bit unacceptable and intolerable from the point of view of current affairs, not even from the point of view of the Constitution, but from the issues we are dealing with today.” said the president.
Mr. Nausėda said that he would not like to think that the issue is being artificially dreamed up to divert attention from existing problems.
“I would not like to think that this issue is being escalated specifically just to divert attention from the issues that are very relevant today and we are far from doing everything we can to solve them,” he said.
The ruling conservatives are considering passing a law in the Seimas that provides for Lithuania to be represented in the European Council not by the president but by the prime minister.
The initiators affirm that the issues discussed at the summits are related to the competence of the Government, there is no possibility of ensuring that the President adheres to the mandate approved by the Seimas and the Government, and the President does not participate in European parties.
Critics of the initiative say the conservatives apply double standards because they have given Dalia Grybauskaitė their support for the European Council, the president has constitutional powers to address key foreign policy issues and represent the state, and Nausėda was mandated by the nation when he defeated I Šimonytė in the presidential elections.
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