We live like pygmies in Africa. Nobody cares about us, we
can't do anything. We are just wasting money on golden spoons in defense and
frolicking like little monkeys among the elephants of world politics.
"A. Armonaitė presented an unexpected reason for the
crushing defeat of I. Šimonytė. The defeat of Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė
of the conservative party in the second round of the presidential elections can
be explained by the narrative of the threat that the conservatives have been
overplaying with for the past year," believes Aušrinė Armonaitė, the
chairwoman of the Freedom Party.
At that time, Mindaugas Lingė, the head of the conservatives'
presidential election staff, did not agree that I. Šimonytė was defeated in the
elections, and at the same time noticed the reluctance of the leader of the
"libertarians" to wish good results to the future rivals of the
conservatives.
The chairwoman of
the Freedom Party, the Minister of Economy and Innovation A. Armonaitė, while
evaluating the result of I. Šimonytė in the presidential elections, admitted
that the defeat of the Prime Minister really affects the current situation of
the ruling coalition. “It probably works. Both political scientists and
politicians are considering those reasons, I myself have named a few this
morning. Apparently, the effort to gather that wider part of the society from
the Homeland Union was lacking", said A. Armonaitė in the discussion
organized by ELTA. The leader of Freedom members noticed that some of
the voters of the Freedom Party chose to support I. Šimonytė in the second
round, but some "voted with their feet" and did not come to the
elections. In addition, G. Nausėda himself, as the minister noted, gathered the
votes of voters from a wide variety of parties.
"The president said last night and this morning that he
wants to be different, to have a different term. That's what I personally wish
for, that there would be more openness to diversity than it has been so
far," A. Armonaitė wished.
It is true that the chairman of the Freedom Party named
another explanation why I. Šimonytė scattered the voters' votes. "From a
political point of view, the performance of the prime minister was apparently
not helped by the threat narrative that has dominated the political space for
the last half a year or a year.
Because people, of course, don't want to hear that the war
will take place in a few hours, as was one quote - true, not from the prime
minister. People need solutions. Decisions regarding defense funding, yes, they
will be, but they got quiet, that narrative played out, and it seems to me that
this could have been one of the reasons", - this is how A. Armonaitė
explained I. Šimonytė's result."
A. Armonaitė is not needed here. The future crushing of I.
Šimonytė was visible during the first round of presidential elections. The fact that the polite,
intelligent medical doctor E. Vaitkus, practically unknown to anyone in Lithuania, who
advocates only for peace (Elementary, my dear Watson), received such attention during
the first round of the presidential elections showed that we are all sick of
war-mongering. Conservatives need to either urgently change the fairy tales
they tell, or gather their toys and go to work in kindergarten.
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