Peasants and Greens: Lithuania’s winner in MP election set to work against Belarus NPP

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Last Sunday Lithuanians handed victory to the Peasants and Greens party which previously had only one member in Parliament.

The party which exceeded any expectations and won 54 seats in the 141-member Parliament is now choosing a partner to form a coalition with. The do not exclude cooperation with conservative Christian Democrats (the Union of the Fatherland). A ruling Social Democrats party that lost the elections with taking only 17 mandates is also seen as a possible coalition partner. Saulius Skvernelis, a former Minister of Interior, is a prohibitive favorite to take the post of Prime Minister. He raised to popularity when he was a chief of police as he was widely respected for tackling corruption in the police force.

“Political parties which declared and still declare a wish to make changes in the state, and to implement them, especially when we face demographic challenges, poverty, so if all this is not just words, then clearly it is a possibility to agree and work together,’ said Saulius Skvernelis.

The Peasants and Greens is a pretty young Lithuanian party that has already had a representative in the European Parliament. Their stance on the Belarusian nuclear power plant being built in Astravets which is only 50 kilometers from Vilnius is significantly negative. And Lithuanians’s concern is well-reasoned; a number of incidents happened in the course of the NPP’s construction. i. e. the collapse of the structural frame due to poor-quality concrete and the general contractor’s dropping a reactor vessel.

“We need to think about how with economic measures to limit electricity buying from Astravets (Belarus) nuclear power plant, and later to technically limit this plant, because it raises a major threat to Lithuania,” Ramunas Karbauskis, the leader of Peasants-Greens, said.

Moreover, other parties in the Lithuanian Seimas also have a bias against supplies of ‘nuclear electricity’ from Belarus. Lithuania, together with Latvia and Estonia, has already switched to the European standard of parallel operation of power systems which is different from that of Belarus and Russia.

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Belsat.eu