He spoke on Friday after vetoing amendments to the law that proposed revoking the threshold level for tenth-graders taking the Basic Education Achievement Test (PUPP).
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“I am in favor of applying the threshold, but not wanting to cause a collapse in the system, I really thought about a transitional period,” the country’s leader told reporters in Klaipėda on Saturday.