The old Social Democrats are in no hurry to reclaim the head of Gintautas Paluckas, and support for the “peasants” is acceptable to them.

In the first round of the elections, the LSDP won 8 mandates, this result in the multi-constitution was named one of the worst in history.

And what does history say?

LSDP won the first round of the 2016 Seimas elections 13 mandates, 2012 – fifteen, He won the 2008 elections of several members of the Seimas 10 mandates.

In 2004, the Social Democrats participated in the elections in a joint list with the Social Liberals of Artūras Paulauskas, in total, the joint list obtained 16 seats in the first round. This list was dominated by the Social Democrats, who were elected eleven.

In 2000, the A. Brazauskas Social Democratic Coalition, made up of the Lithuanian Democratic Labor Party (LDDP), the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), the Lithuanian Russian Union and the New Democracy Party participated in the elections. LDDP received 14 seats, LSDP – 7. A year later, these parties were merged into LSDP. In the 1996 elections, 12 representatives of the LDDP and LSDP were elected.

So it appears that LSDP has reached a point where you may need to ask yourself another question. For example, who is to blame for this?

his 15 minutes LSDP elders who did not speak in 2006 do not believe that G. Paluckas, who promised a breakthrough to the Social Democratic Party, should muster all the shots for it.

He himself told a post-election press conference on Monday that can’t talk about his resignation – getting ready for a one-member fight.

“The electoral campaign was bleak”

Birutė Vėsaitė, a member of the LSDP Council and a former minister, has not been elected a member of the Seimas for this term. 15 minutes He said he believed the poor result was not due to the president but to circumstances beyond the control of the parties.

“It just came to our attention then. However, we lost voters who were generally loyal to us in rural areas. And I would say that it costs 200 euros, that promise to increase pensions, I think it worked. our, I would say, unfortunate results, ”he said, leading to the poor result.

B.Vėsaitė urged to wait for the second round: “We have not fully bowed our heads yet.”

In the second round of the Seimas elections, 12 LSDP candidates will compete in single-member constituencies on October 25.

By the way, B.Vėsaitė, who rose to 18th on the list after ranking, has a theoretical chance of entering the Seimas, but for that to happen, even 10 Social Democrats would have to win in single-member districts.

Although B.Vėsaitė tends to believe that the multi-member failure was caused by circumstances beyond the control of the LSDP, he agreed that the party’s election campaign was blank.

“Clearly, we didn’t have millions as a Labor Party. All our members worked with their feet and their tongues ”, added the Social Democrat.

I would be categorically against going with the conservatives.

When asked how he valued the LSDP’s decision to support the “peasant” candidates and accept the support of Ramūnas Karbauskis, when the Social Democrats actively criticized the rulers’ decisions, B. Vėsaitė said he wanted to wish for a coalition of left-wing parties. .

“It is logical that now there is more support for the left than for the right. I would be categorically against going with the conservatives, because we would completely eliminate our identity and cut our values,” he emphasized.

It urges not to kick anything and to dive into deep reflections after the second round.

Algimantas Salamakinas, a member of the Seimas who was about to end his term at the time and became the first on the list of Social Democrats behind the board, 15 minutes He argued that in case of failure, the easiest way is to squeeze the leader.

But I never did that. They are all to blame, and we will count all the chickens after the second round and then we will have to do some deeper reflections. But I wouldn’t really say that a president is to blame here, “he said it was time for G. Paluckas to verify his confidence in the party.

Bad, and how can it be underestimated here? Bad very bad.

In his opinion, the LSDP result is just bad.

“It’s bad, and how can it be underestimated here? Bad very bad. It could have been better, but it’s the way it is, he said. – Something did not work out somewhere, the electoral campaign was poorly prepared. There are a lot of details here, and there were a lot of those details. “

According to Salamakin, what the “peasants” did for four years completely ruined the left’s political agenda.

“For this reason, the voters turned away from the left, as well as from us and from the ‘peasants’ themselves, because the leftist politician was not represented for four years. Gediminas Kirkilas’ party (Lithuanian Social Democratic Labor Party – aut.) Is not clear on what it was doing; he also calls himself a leftist. The politics of the “peasants” had nothing to do with the left, just some stupid bans, throwing away budget funds, unnecessary splits in all directions. Well what, we have what we have, “said the veteran politician.

Yet despite previous criticism of the decisions, Paluck is determined to enlist the support of the “peasants” and support their candidates.

How should all this look to voters?

These are certain agreements that you will not escape.

“Well, I understand that there will be a second round, some support must be expressed, but if the ‘peasants’ declare that they are from the left, which I doubt, since they are certain agreements, they will not escape, but this is the result of the Second round”. I ask.

Salamakin said it is necessary to demonstrate a real and normal left politics over the next four years.

“And I think, after four years, people will know the real left, and now, of course, people can get lost, and Viktor Uspaskich and Antanas Guoga call themselves the left, although there is not a gram left.” . Therefore, it unbalanced left politics, the left agenda, ”explained the member of Seimas.

The reasons offer to look inside you

Algirdas Sysas, a longtime Social Democrat who ranked ninth and fourth in the elections and won another term in the Seimas, was asked about his support for the highly criticized “peasant” candidates, and said on election night that party divisions had to decide.

“All over Lithuania, there are several coalitions of our friends: both with” peasants “and with conservatives or liberals, and they know those people better, they know not only the man on the front, but also all the advantages and disadvantages. Any directive from above, but the voters will decide, “Departments must decide for themselves which party to support single-member members,” Sys said.

He explained that the “peasants” had tried to enslave the Social Democrats to the Conservatives, and after G. Paluck’s statement about supporting themselves, he could now apologize.

The politician is convinced that the poor performance of the party was due to several reasons.

“And you always have to look for reasons within yourself, not around you,” he stressed.

What are they? According to the interlocutor, it is also an electoral strategy that was not fully thought out.

“There will be an analysis, and now we do not want to shred, popular words. The second round is waiting, we must do everything possible to have the largest possible faction and have some influence,” he said.

Mr. Sys pointed out that the statute of the Social Democratic Party does not stipulate that the president must monitor the confidence in the party after each election.

“We have a congress for that and there will be an extraordinary congress, I don’t know, but it will probably be decided how it will be done, but we will do it after the elections,” he said.

The LSDP statute establishes that the party president is elected every two years.

Paluck was re-elected in April of last year, which means that new elections will be held in April of next year, unless it is decided to call an extraordinary congress.