“We are here from 9 a.m., working with colleagues in our editorial group to turn yesterday\u2019s strategic-level agreements into a coherent coalition agreement,” Savickas told reporters at the Seimas. <\/p>\n
“We hope to finish the text today.”<\/p>\n
He declined to comment on which ministries might go to the Democrats, saying those decisions were not being made on Friday. <\/p>\n
“We are focusing on the content of the coalition agreement,” he said, adding that questions about ministerial posts and personnel would be addressed later.<\/p>\n
According to Savickas, his party is also waiting on the Social Democrats (LSDP) to decide who will assume the prime minister post following changes in the ruling majority.<\/p>\n
Asked about the main points of contention, Savickas said the largest “battle” during Thursday\u2019s negotiations concerned EUR 70 million in maternity and paternity benefits, but a solution had been reached. <\/p>\n
“We agreed it is a political decision and that our coalition partners see it as a priority, as we do,” he said.<\/p>\n
The ruling LSDP on Saturday decided to reshuffle the coalition by removing the Nemunas Dawn party and opening talks with the Democrats For Lithuania.<\/p>\n
Party leaders Mindaugas Sinkevi\u010dius, MEP Virginijus Sinkevi\u010dius and MEP Aurelijus Veryga of the Farmers and Greens met in Brussels Tuesday, with full coalition negotiation groups scheduled to meet Thursday.<\/p>\n
If approved, the new coalition would hold 75 of the 141 seats in the Seimas, five fewer than under the previous arrangement with Nemunas Dawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“We are here from 9 a.m., working with colleagues in our editorial group to turn yesterday\u2019s strategic-level agreements…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[93],"tags":[4082,171,170],"class_list":["post-106945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vilnius","tag-coalition","tag-lithuania","tag-vilnius"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116740585345925771","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}