The expert evaluated the examination of the candidates for ministers: everything indicates that the situation is not good

A difficult choice

It has already been written that Delphi According to sources, at the meetings, presidential advisers suggested candidates for possible names for the positions of vice ministers. The presidency explains that this was not the case, but only the people who work in the ministries and areas under their responsibility were discussed, and opinions were shared on the matter.

Delphi According to sources, the candidate of the Freedom Party to the ministers, Kaspars Adomaitis, who was appointed to head the Ministry of Transport and Communications, was proposed to leave the current deputy minister of this ministry, Gytis Mažeikas, as deputy minister. Advisers to conservative monika Navickienė also asked if she would remain as deputy minister of Eglė Radišauskienė, and even advisers to Gabrielius Landsbergis, the leader of the National Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD), also offered their help in forming the cabinet.

Antanas Bubnelis, spokesman for President G. Nausėda, explained that the advisers spoke with some of the candidates about the people who currently work in the ministries, or in the areas supervised by the ministries, and gave their opinions about them.

Some of the candidates asked the advisers their opinion about the people who currently work in the ministries or other people who work in the areas supervised by the ministry, in such cases the advisers expressed it. At the initiative of the advisers, no people were offered for the posts of deputy ministers, ”said a spokesman for the country’s chief G. Nausėda.

The head of state also spoke about this during a press conference on Friday. He explained that his advisers did not suggest possible vice ministers to the candidates.

“There have been no suggestions, there could be no such thing as ‘leave something’, ‘use’. First we ask the candidate himself if he has a team, if he does not have one or if he has a vision for the team. (…) This is the most important thing for us. Everything else, I don’t know where it comes from, are treatments, doubts, conspiracy theories, which have no foundation, “said the head of the country G. Nausėda.

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Professor at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU), political scientist, advisor to outgoing President Valdas Adamkus Lauras Bielinis Delphi He said that a meeting of presidential advisers with a candidate is like a preparatory conversation before a meeting with the head of the country himself.

“It just came to our attention then. If the president meets with the candidate immediately, the abundance of questions and problems that may arise will overshadow the basics and essentials. The team of (advisors, aut. P.) meeting with the candidate classifies the questions in one way, discussing them directly with the candidate. The president is left only with the strategic, essential ones, he is not burdened by the underlying problems, “said L. Bielinis.

According to the political scientist, the candidate’s meeting with the president’s advisory team ensures a better meeting with the president. Interviewer L. Bielinis Delphi He said that the meeting of candidates with the president’s advisers was sometimes held while he was in office.

“It just came to our knowledge then. Everything depended on the relationship between the rulers and the president himself. Sometimes it can be like that,” L. Bielinis said.

The former adviser to V. Adamkus said that the preparatory meeting and its format should not harm the candidate for minister.

“If anyone in the country thinks that such meetings violate the honor, status and the like of that candidate, think so. But after all, the ultimate goal is for the president himself to make the best decision when selecting candidates. Therefore, such meetings with one or six advisers should not harm the candidate. “This is a preparatory meeting during which the candidate clarifies the essential issues, understands what to prepare before speaking with the head of the country,” he explained.

There is no need to bewilder

Delphi He has already written that, according to sources, the presidential advisers in meetings with the candidates expressed some of the names of those who currently hold the post of vice minister as potential candidates for the teams of new ministers.

The presidency explained that some of the candidates themselves asked for people who work in ministries or other areas supervised by the ministry, and presidential advisers evaluated the candidacies expressing their opinions.

According to L. Bielinis, the president’s advisers do not carry so much weight that the ministerial candidate hears him automatically.

Anyway, the president’s advisers can say a word, but their word is not significant enough for the minister to react. I think this is a kind of attempt to see the secrets where basically there is a very clear technological action. (…) Because the presidential team can have its own priorities, sympathies in one way or another, naturally.

That may be the point, but influencing requires having the support and the tools to do so. We are just baffling this process, I would suggest that we not do it, “urged the political scientist.

He said in Delphi that interviews with candidates can be very emotional, they can “talk about a lot.”

“But this is a normal technological action that will help the president in some way, to highlight the essential elements and the composition of the team of the future minister, which is also very important.” Delphi political scientist L. Bielinis gave his opinion.

“These practices are not regulated”

Cultural Histories, as well as Darius Kuolys, former advisor to V. Adamkus Delphi He said that he did not understand the format of the meeting with the candidates chosen by the Presidency.

“I worked in the presidency during the first term of V. Adamkus, there was no such practice. And I highly doubt that it is civilized, ”he said.

The interlocutor also recalled the format of communication with the ministerial candidates chosen by the head of the outgoing country Dalia Grybauskaitė, which had been discussed many times. According to D. Kuolis, the humiliation of the candidates was also felt in him.

“He does not look dignified and during the presidency of D. Grybauskaitė it was more typical of the working style of the president of neighboring Belarus Aliaksandr Lukashenko,” said D. Kuolys, adding that this is a more eastern leadership style.

“It is not good that now it is being cultivated in Lithuania,” said the interlocutor.

According to D. Kuolis, the meeting of the candidates only with the president’s advisers is nowhere described, but it seems a kind of “force game”.

“Nowhere is this practice regulated. They are, therefore, certain force games that I have not experienced. President Adamkus adhered to Western traditions,” Delphi said a former adviser to President Adamkus.

Who will he be loyal to?

The interlocutor, D. Kuolys, assured that he lacked political confidence, that the party that won the elections, which had won the trust of the public, delegated its representatives to positions of power, that it chose its own team.

“These are the people who have to train, the president can have very serious arguments about one or the other candidate. You must calmly argue about the candidacy of that minister you do not name. That would be a civilized way, “he said.

He said he was also hampered by public comments on each candidate by presidential advisers.

“But now that the president’s advisers are starting to comment on each candidate, discuss it in public, say he’s missing one or the other, and if he puts together a team, it might be fine, but maybe he should look for teams there and there. comments already, dona, they are completely non-western style. Here is a beautiful bridge, as Algirdas Julius Greimas said “, said D. Kuolys.

He considered that it is unlikely that the president himself “knows and knows” all the vice ministers. Their opinion of them is then given by their advisers, who shape the attitudes of the candidates.

The main problem, according to D. Kuolis, is that people did not choose advisers for this position.

“Does the president really know all the vice ministers? Consequently, something is not partially elected through the presidential institution, certain groups that did not arise, that we did not elect and that we do not know, are now offering us politically trusted officials. ( …) When proposed by the Minister, he assumes the full responsibility of the Vice Ministers.

What does it mean for anonymous structures to take over and delegate one or another deputy to a minister? To whom will he be responsible and loyal, loyal? To the Minister, the Government or the bodies that delegated it? “- Delphi the former advisor of V. Adamkus named his deliberations.

It was also hampered by the fact that deputy ministers appointed by the outgoing government were also discussed.

Or he asked the candidate for minister to stay with the political minister of the political trust that he had proposed to the Peasant and Green Government. This is no longer a democratic government. As it is called Nomenclature, certain possession of the state. After all, we don’t elect the president’s advisers, “Duoli said.

The interlocutor was amazed at how G. Nausėda, “with a truly western attitude”, is adopting such “strange oriental practices”.

Another eloquent high point, according to D. Kuolis, the candidate for Minister of Justice, responds to the media.

“I listened to a press conference in which the candidate for Justice Minister Evelina Dobrovolskas spoke and, unfortunately, she did not respond to the open question about whether she was offered members of the team.” Consequently, this is the correct answer “yes”, said the interlocutor.

“Everything indicates that the situation is not good,” he summarized.

Delphi said the actions of the new ruling majority did not seem in good taste either.

“Looking at his behavior, a little revenge seems in bad taste. There is no such beautiful bridge that solid parties should demonstrate. (…) The post-electoral situation does not give Lithuania the style of a dignified Western state. That is very sad ”, said the interlocutor.

All surnames

Delphi recalls that I. Šimonytė appoints the liberal Simonas Gentvilas, Minister of Economy and Innovation, appoints Aušrinė Armonaitė as Minister of Economy and Innovation, the conservative Dainiai Kreivis as Minister of Energy, Gintarė Skaistė as Minister of Finance, the conservative Arvydas Anušauskas as Minister of National Defense, Minister of Culture – Liberal Simonas Kairys, Minister of Health – Arūnas Dulkys.

Minister of Social Security and Labor I. Šimonytė proposes Conservative Monika Navickienė, Minister of Transport and Communications – Representative of the Freedom Party Kaspars Adomaitis, Minister of Education, Science and Sports – Conservative Jurgita Šiugždinienė, Minister of Justice – Party Candidate of Liberty Evelinas Dobrovolskis, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of the Interior – Conservative Agnė Bilotaitė, Minister of Agriculture – Dalia Miniataitė.