The Labor Party did not choose to wait for the results and A.Guoga declared: “I have landed on the ground.”

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According to the CEC, one of the two Labor Party candidates won, which means that the political force in the Seimas will have 10 representatives. Valentinas Bukauskas (49.99 percent), the party’s representative in the Telšiai electoral district, defeated Algirdas Bacevičius (46.39 percent), the representative of the Center’s nationalist party, by a small margin.

I don’t think I should guarantee (fate in party, aut. Past) if it doesn’t create value for Lithuania, if it doesn’t benefit the Lithuanian people.

In the northern district of Nalšia, the party candidate Rimvydas Podolskis (23.83%) succumbed to the “peasant” Algimantas Dumbrava (71.60).

I don’t want to guarantee

A.Guoga 15 minutes assured in the study that the political force that he represented had no ambitions to be in power. When asked why the party had changed its mind several times in recent weeks – saying it would join the “peasants” and then talking about remaining in the opposition, A.Guoga avoided answering.

“It just came to our knowledge then. I said that education is a painful subject for me and I wish education was much better than it is now,” said a Labor Party spokesman.

The politician did not answer whether he expected to be in the ruling majority or in the opposition and explained that Labor Party politicians “would work for Lithuania.” According to A.Guoga, the party he represents could also work with the majority in the Seimas led by the Union of the Fatherland – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD).

When asked if he would agree to sign a document that would oblige him to remain in the ranks of the Labor Party, A.Guoga did not give a direct answer.

“I don’t think I should guarantee (fate in the party, aut. Past) if it doesn’t create value for Lithuania, if it doesn’t benefit the Lithuanian people,” said the politician.

The results were not seen together

Unlike other parties awaiting election results, the Labor Party did not choose to observe election night together. One of the reasons for this may be the party leader V. Uspaskich, who has been suffering from a nameless illness for several weeks.

A.Guoga assures that he last communicated with the party leader a few weeks ago, so he does not know how he feels. When asked how he evaluated the party president’s decision not to take the COVID-19 test, he replied that it was a personal human decision.

Guoga himself said that if he felt good, he would not take the test.

“If I feel good, I don’t think I would behave differently (than V.Uspaksich – aut.past.). But if I felt bad and thought that there is a risk of others getting infected, I would not talk to other people”, A. Guoga said.

The party’s leader, Viktor Uspaskich, has not been in public for some time due to health problems, but refuses to undergo the COVID-19 test.

“Civil responsibility. But the temperature is not there, the cough is not there now, but for me, it is clearly better. I consulted with the doctors, it is better for me not to speak for about three weeks,” said V. Uspaksich when reporters They asked him on Friday why he chose self-isolation.

Later, V. Uspaskich assured that he was in self-isolation to be able to rest his body.

“All the more reason I don’t use any academic medicine and I need a little more time to rebuild the body in this place,” added the politician.

He did it all in poker

When asked if he did not believe that after becoming a member of the Seimas it might be necessary to refuse to participate in the game, the politician said that he did not think such activities should be prohibited, but at the same time stated that he could give way to young people. .

“I think I have peaked in my industry as much as possible, quite a bit. And I can give way for young people to achieve something as well,” said A.Guoga.

When asked why the politician declared after the first round that he would be a minister or cleaner of the Seimas, the Labor Party representative said that he had “landed on the ground” and would be satisfied with working on any suitable Seimas committee to he.

“I have landed on the ground and the position that will be offered is the committee that suits me, usually the foreign affairs committee or another committee that I feel fit and secure enough on,” Guoga said.

I have landed on the ground and the position that will be proposed is the committee that suits me, normally the Foreign Affairs Committee or another committee that I feel is sufficiently adequate and secure.

Personalities were missing

Although in the first round of the elections the party won 9 seats in the second round, only two candidates from the Labor Party were included. According to A.Guoga, many people have lost political power.

“The party has lost a lot of people, as we can see. We don’t have a lot of good people. And the party needs to get stronger. It is the lack of unique members, the lack of strong divisions, “said A.Guoga.

The politician did not rule out the possibility that the Labor Party could join with other political forces to form a stronger party, but tended to leave the decision to the party council.

He asked voters in the air to promise that A. Guoga would be a member of the Seimas for all four years, but he was unwilling to do so.

“It just came to our knowledge then. People elected me multi-member. If I see myself and I am suitable, and I create value for Lithuania, and I see that they need me, I will keep working,” said the Labor Party representative.

According to the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), voter turnout in the second round of the Seimas elections reached 39.7 percent, and Laura Matijošaitytė, president of the Central Electoral Commission, announced the closure of polling stations on Sunday.

Voters went to the polls less than in the first round two weeks ago. However, in 2020 the second round of the parliamentary elections exceeded the turnout in 2008 (32%), 2012 (36%) and in 2016 (38%) in the second round of the parliamentary elections.

You intend to remain in opposition

During the first round of the Seimas elections, in a constituency of several members, the Labor Party obtained 9.47 percent. voted and won 9 seats, yielding only to the Union of the Fatherland: the Christian Democrats of Lithuania (TS-LKD) and the Union of Peasants and Greens of Lithuania (LVŽS).

I have nothing to promise. People chose me as a multi-member.

Antanas Guoga, Virgilijus Jukna, Mindaugas Puidokas, Andrius Mazuronis, Ieva Kačinskaitė-Urbonienė, Valentinas Bukauskas, Vytautas Gapšys, Viktoroas Fiodorovas and Vaida Giraitytė entered the Seimas with the flag of the Labor Party.

After the second round of elections, the Labor Party faction in the Seimas was able to fill two more seats in the single-member electoral district of Telšiai with Valentinas Bukauskas and Rimvydas Podolskis in the northern part of Nalšia.

However, after sending data to 38 districts out of 40 in the latter, R. Podolskis has collected just over 23 percent. no more votes and no chance of winning.

In the single-member constituency of Telšiai, after sending data to 25 out of 33 districts, V. Bukauskas (52.49%) leads Algirdas Bacevičius (44.35%), a nationalist candidate from the Center.

A few days before the second election, the leader of the property party Viktor Uspaskich 15 minutes set believing that conservatives and liberals will easily form a majority, so the Labor Party will remain in opposition.

He claimed that the posts were of no interest to the Labor Party and the party tended to remain in opposition.

“We already have a lot of experience, if you do not control the situation, it is not worth participating there and giving those people ministerial positions at the expense of the party, they win there and escape,” said the politician.

According to V. Uspaskich, if the “peasants” won the elections, the Labor Party would consider joining the coalition led by the current rulers, but the decision would depend on whether the Labor Party program is approved.