“In my opinion, the coalition should also remain because we formed it then with the then Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas. (…) It works, I think it can work and must work if we want stability and peace,” the politician said on the LRT show “Dienos tema” on Wednesday.
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However, R. Žemaitaitis clarified that the future of the coalition is not guaranteed until the end.
“You are not guaranteed what will happen in your life. The same goes for the coalition – this weekend the Social Democrats, with the new council gathered, the party leader Mindaugas will present some decision, and that decision will be made,” emphasized the leader of the “aušriečiai”.
The politician stressed that he believes the coalition’s work is not hindered by his case of incitement to hatred being examined in the Court of Appeal, nor by the decision of the Central Electoral Commission, which stated that the party grossly violated the law.
“The question is – does the Seimas function? It does. Does the government work? It does. Are decisions made? Yes, they are made. Are they good? Yes, not always good, that must be understood. Yes, we do not have unified decisions in the coalition. (…) There are certain things we disagree on, there are main things we agree on,” he said.
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BNS reported that earlier the Social Democrats modeled three possible scenarios for the coalition’s future – to continue working with the current coalition composition, to replace the “aušriečiai” with Democrats, or to work in minority.
As early as Monday, the Speaker of the Seimas Juozas Olekas claimed that the answer regarding the coalition with “Nemuno aušra” is already clear. According to him, work is ongoing, decisions are being made.
After the 2024 Seimas elections, the ruling coalition was formed by the Social Democrats with “Nemuno aušra” and the Democrats, but last autumn they reshuffled the majority, inviting the parliamentary faction of the Lithuanian Farmers, Greens and Christian Families Union instead of the Democrats.
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Currently, the coalition has 80 representatives in parliament.
