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B. On Sunday, B. Petkevič won the Seimas elections in the Šalčininkai-Vilnius single-member electoral district. His party colleague, MP Česlav Olševskis, was also elected sole member of the Seimas in Medininkai. Ingrida Šimonytė, the leader of the conservative list, was elected to the Seimas in the first round of single-member Antakalnis elections.
B. Petkevič, represented by LLRA-KŠS, will not have his own fraction in the Seimas of the new term, because the party did not win 5% in the elections in the multi-member constituency. barrier (it received 4.82% of the electorate), and three of its candidates entered the second round of the single-member elections.
It cannot be said by V. Tomashevsky
B. Petkevič explained that the LLRA-KŠS performed well in the Seimas elections, as there were many negative aspects during the campaign.
“Because really the pre-election campaign was not, I think, very clean and it was very difficult to run for office and face other parties. Even so, we have always been and we have been in that limit of 5 percent and it could have happened that this time we could not enter “, evaluated.
Still, we’ve always been and have been at that 5 percent limit and it could have happened that we wouldn’t have gotten it this time.
The leader of the LLRA-KŠS, Valdemaras Tomaševskis, promised that if he does not cross this threshold, he will retire from the post of party president.
He said Monday that he took responsibility for the results and that “other actions follow.”
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Valdemaras Tomaševskis
“I can’t say for Mr. Tomaševskis or for the whole game. But I hope that we will also draw conclusions. Yes, we will draw conclusions, we will analyze our situation, because we really expected to cross at least that 5 percent barrier,” commented B. Petkevič .
Evaluating the results of the Seimas elections in general, he said that he hoped the Lithuanian Union of Greens and Peasants would win them.
“But we will see in the second round. Anyway, I don’t know, through COVID maybe the way people think about life, about the state, has changed a bit. Maybe it also affected our political situation and decisions. People want to change all the time and you won’t change here. They still compare their lives both before and after; maybe some things are already out of date, maybe new ideas and thoughts are needed, “commented B. Petkevič.
Maybe some things are already out of date, maybe new ideas and ideas are needed.
To work in a faction: a party decision
B. Petkevič, who will take office as a parliamentarian in November, does not know which faction of the Seimas he will work for, the mixed group of Seimas members, or will join which faction of the party.
“We will probably see in two weeks how things will be and what the coalitions will be like, and then we will see. I believe that my decision will not only be mine here, but of course also partisan, ”commented the representative of LLRA-KŠS.
Sigismund Gedvila / 15min photo / LLLRA – Meeting of the KŠS presidium
B. Petkevič sees himself working in the social, educational and youth fields at Seimas.
“I think that the Human Rights Committee would also interest me as a future member of Seimas, because I continue to support national minorities: Poles, Russians and all of Lithuania. So, I think it would be a good space to express ourselves here,” said the future parliamentarian.
I think that the Human Rights Committee would also interest me as a future member of the Seimas, because I still support the national minorities: Poles, Russians and all of Lithuania.
When asked if she was determined to win the Seimas election in the first round or if it was a surprise to her, B. Petkevič said she did not have that goal.
“People have different opinions, even in our Šalčininkai district. It was hard to guess. But I was also hopeful, because I still worked a lot here during my tenures, both as adviser to the mayor and as deputy director of administration. So, I think I expected a bit , because my works are also visible ”, he said.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Šalčininkai
B. Petkevič will work at Seimas for the first time. This, according to the representative of LLRA-KŠS, intimidates her a little.
“It is new for me, I am a municipal, I can say it. But, on the other hand, nobody is born a member of the Seimas, they enter politics from various fields. It motivates me to be able to learn new things, ”he explained.
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