“A child who falls on his back at the toy shelf, screams at the top of his lungs and thrashes with his hands and feet also usually thinks that his parents or grandparents have punished him for something by not buying a toy,” F. Janson assessed G. Landsberg’s suspicions expressed on Wednesday.
“Trying to bond or reacting to the fact that you didn’t get the toy shows that you probably didn’t need to give it,” he added in an interview with Elta.
The adviser says that the public criticism of the rejected candidacy of G. Landsbergis is not surprising at all. According to F. Janson, it is mostly expressed by conservatives and people related to the minister’s environment.
“We are talking about a person who really wanted to be a European Commissioner, but he didn’t become one. We are talking about his relatives, relatives and comrades of his party. All the indignation comes from one very clear group of people,” he said, noting that the situation is probably assessed most objectively by the small right-wing coalition partners.
“If other members of the governing coalition say that the next chosen candidate is a head taller than Mr. Gabriel Landsbergis, I would think that the liberals and the Freedom Party are more objective. They are not an opposition that, by definition, criticizes everything,” noted F. Janson.
G. Landsbergis mentioned why his candidacy to the EC was rejected
Conservative leader G. Landsbergis publicly stated on Wednesday that President G. Nausėda blocked his way to the European Commission by consolidating accounts for the so-called “Phantom of the Opera” story. According to the minister, the head of the country reacted extremely sensitively when he stopped the ambassador to the United Kingdom Eitvydas Bajarūnas, who was accused of mobbing, and later found himself in the sights of the Supreme Service Ethics Commission (VTEK).
“If I were to try to turn the pages of the hotter moments, the page where I would look for the foundations for these decisions is probably the one most related to the opera and the phantoms that visit it,” G. Landsbergis said in an interview with Delfi.
“That episode, unexpectedly for me (…), was painful for the president,” the minister added.
ELTA reminds that on Monday Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė presented to the coalition council the candidacy of MEP Andrias Kubilius for the European Commission (EC). According to her, this is the candidate for whom it was possible to find common ground with the president.
At the meeting held on Wednesday, the government adopted a resolution proposing to the President and the Seimas to approve the candidacy of the MEP to the European Commission. The Presidency signed the decree on this proposal on Thursday.
Minister of Foreign Affairs G. Landsbergis, who was previously discussed in the media and political corridors as a possible European Commissioner, told Elta last Friday that he had received information that President G. Nausėda would not approve his candidacy.
For his part, G. Nausėda himself testified that the decision not to appoint conservative leader G. Landsberis as Lithuania’s representative in the European Commission was not determined by revenge or personal reasons. The head of the country admitted that he did not like some of the mannerisms of the minister, who was projected to become a European commissioner, and the decision to concentrate only on foreign policy.
The nomination of the Eurocommissioner is submitted by the Government after the position has been agreed with the President and the Seimas.
2024-08-23 11:39:11