S. Skvernelis’s comrades in the group could receive a grant, but they would have to

It will belong to the new faction S. Skvernel 13 members of the Seimas: 10 will move from the “peasants”, 3 – from the Mixed group of members of the Seimas.

On Tuesday, S. Skvernelis did not share his additional plans with reporters.

“Who will continue to speak too early today … We will see if there is a need, we can consider everything, but we certainly will not create an artificial political party or political movement if it is an artificial solution,” he added. he said at a press conference.

When asked if a merger with an existing party was being considered, Skvernel said there was no question that the group would become a faction of any existing party.

“I understand that there were many different speculations in the public space, speeches. Personally, I don’t know if any of my colleagues had any conversations, maybe that was it, I really didn’t do anything about it because I think the main thing today is the group ( …)

There is not even talk today of joining any political force. “I don’t think these people have come together to attack one political force or another,” he said.

15 minutes According to sources, there were talks with the Lithuanian Green Party (LLP) and members of this new faction. for a common future promised to present before Friday.

The grant could be obtained through the LSDDP

The MPs who founded the new faction were left without a source of funding: they do not belong to any party, so they cannot apply for a state grant.

This could happen, but only if S. Skvernel and his comrades formed a new party.

According to the law, in Lithuania, the state subsidy is received by the parties that have obtained at least 2 percent of all the votes cast for the candidates of the political parties in those elections to the Seimas, the municipal councils and the elections to the European Parliament. .

For many years, the money went only to the parties participating in the elections, but everything changed in 2018 after the purchase of state money by politicians who broke away from the Social Democrats and founded the LSDDP.

His appetite was somewhat stifled by then-president Dalia Grybauskaitė, who vetoed the amendments to the Political Parties Law proposed by the rulers.

However, his veto, whose rulers did not reject, it only deferred payment of the grant to the non-participating LSDDP.

Therefore, parties that did not participate in the elections can now also receive the grant.

If a new party with a faction were to register in the Seimas, it would be allocated state budget allocations before the next Seimas elections.

“If a new party with a faction were to register in the Seimas, it would be allocated state budget allocations before the next Seimas elections.

If that party were to reorganize by merging with another political party that receives state budget allocations, the payment of the state budget allocations would be canceled. ” 15 minutes explained the spokeswoman for the Central Election Commission (CEC) Indrė Ramanavičienė.

However, the Political Parties Law does not foresee the possibility that the grant will be awarded to an established party that does not receive allocations and is joined by members of the Seimas.

“If members of a faction join a party that is already active but does not receive a subsidy, that party will not start to receive it, regardless of the fact that members of the parliamentary faction have joined,” emphasized I. Ramanavičienė.

The CEC distributes state budget allocations to political parties twice a year, on November 15 and April 15.