What does the choice of the new Social Democrat leader Mindaugas Sinkevicius mean? Such questions have arisen not only because the 31-year-old M. Katelynas is known for statements about the need to tighten migration policy.
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The political newcomer among the left also stands out for his clearly hostile position on same-sex partnerships, which Social Democrat leaders had previously even promised to legalize, although recently they no longer talk about it.
Appointed as Minister of the Interior, M. Katelynas explains that upon becoming a Social Democrat, he did not have to renounce previously promoted values or change his views.
Is such a political turnaround possible? Are there no longer major differences between the Social Democratic Party and the National Union that one could calmly overlook?
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“I think he paints everything too rosy here,” laughed the National Union leader Vytautas Sinica at M. Katelynas’s attempts to wriggle in the 15min show “Let’s Discuss. With Tadas Ignatavičius”.
The only representative of this party in the Seimas also offered a somewhat different version of why M. Katelynas and the National Union parted ways before the elections.
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