„A rather soft, fluffy report highlighting the four-year milestone of this government. It touched on all the highlights of our lives. I can't single out anything missing; it seems to have touched all areas of life“, Skvernelis told journalists at the Seimas on Tuesday.
According to the MP, he did not think that the Head of State's speech was too critical of the ruling party.
„I think that today, the President kept his criticism to himself and mentioned it with a certain irony, and there was quite a lot of it. The ministers were able to apply it to their personalities. But it was certainly not overdone. I think the President said that it is hopeless to look back at what is now, and he has a lot of expectations for the future, for the autumn“, the MP said.
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„The President responded to the issues present in society today (...) This is a symbolic accent on what the politicians of the Homeland Union were saying and doing in the past before they were in power,“ said Skvernelis.
Norkienė: everything as from our election programme
Aušrinė Norkienė, the elder of the Peasant group in the Seimas, also welcomed the Head of State's annual report.
„The President expressed the ideas our group has been repeating for the whole term – the education and regional policy situation. (...) Everything is as in our election programme,“ Norkienė told journalists at the Seimas.
However, she said, there could have been more economic assessment of the state.
„Perhaps we missed an economic assessment of our state and what the solutions would be, but perhaps there was no time for that. And he (the President – ELTA) critically ended his speech, which is why we, the opposition, are now trying to collect signatures for the impeachment of Monika Navickienė, a member of the Seimas,“ the politician said.
ELTA recalls that President Gitanas Nausėda delivered his annual address to the Seimas on Tuesday.
It was the fifth address the head of state gave to the Seimas and the public. This time, Nausėda addressed the politicians, having already secured his second term as Head of State.
This year, the President focused his speech on economic and social policy issues. Nausėda stressed that „we cannot continue to divide, split and sort Lithuania artificially“.
The President said that when it came to changes in the pension system, he had to „repeatedly defend the ruling majority against its own decisions“ and regretted that the right-wing government had buried the tax reform. He also called for the regions of Lithuania not to be ignored, as he said that the reduction of exclusion is linked to the autonomy of municipalities. The politician argued that citizens in the regions should not be written off „as useless ballast“ and that communication with the population should not become „a Christmas carol“.
At the same time, referring to the situation in the field of education, Nausėda noted that it was worrying and wrong that the ruling party had left the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports (MESS) without a permanent leader.
By the Constitution, the President delivers annual reports to the Seimas in which he discusses the country's situation and the most critical events in Lithuania's domestic and foreign policy. The country's leaders traditionally deliver such speeches during the spring session of Seimas.