President: VPT has shown its backbone on a national stadium construction contract



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“It seems to me that the Public Procurement Office has just demonstrated its backbone, expressed a position of principle: I do not question it, because it is a duty of the Public Procurement Office.” As we can see now, the court upheld this decision, “the head of state told reporters on Thursday.

“I think everyone has to do their job. “If you think this decision was unreasonable, you can appeal, but as you can see, even now it cannot be done,” he added.

According to the president, the Vilnius government had to deal not only with the project itself, but also with the conditions for its implementation.

Cloud Architects / Updated views of the National Stadium

Cloud Architects / Updated views of the National Stadium

“I think that the competent authorities have to deal not only with the need for the projects themselves, but also with the conditions under which we implemented them, because we really had a lot of sad experience in the past,” said G. Nausėda.

“In this place, guided by the need to help the economy faster and, so to speak, somehow more efficiently, well, probably everyone will agree, and probably the mayor of Vilnius himself will agree that we cannot do it at any cost and spend money just because we need to fast, “said the head of state.

According to the president, the Vilnius government had to deal not only with the project itself, but also with the conditions for its implementation.

On Thursday, the Vilnius Regional Administrative Court rejected the complaint of the Vilnius City Municipality and ruled that the VPT had legally suspended 156 million LTL. The signing of a concession agreement for the construction and management of a national stadium worth 1 billion euros between the municipality of Vilnius and Axis Industries, a company of concern to Icor.

Vilnius Mayor R.Šimašius stated that the national stadium project was “killed by” peasants “, taking advantage of the fact that the VPT was left without a leader.

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis called that mayor’s statements “inadequate” and considered that the national stadium should be built by the state if the municipality does not do so.



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