Political scientists’ assessments of the Presidency’s response to the CEC’s suggestions differ: they recommend ready for the fee’s conclusions

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2024-05-27 04:56:35

“That response of the Presidency didn’t look very good and never very tasty. We do roughly what we wish, do not clarify it to us right here,” I. Kalpokas mentioned to Eltai on Sunday night.

“Because the first spherical, the communication of each Gitanas Nausėda and the Presidency itself has been like this – that we have now already gained, the ocean is as much as our knees and now we are able to principally do no matter we wish, they may nonetheless elect us. And it appears to me that this strategy could be seen on this specific case as effectively,” mentioned the political scientist.

M. Jurkynas: there was no direct agitation

Nevertheless, Vytautas the Nice’s professor Mindaugas Jurkynas factors out that there was no clear agitation in G. Nausėda’s report. Due to this fact, the political scientist notes, it stays to be seen what conclusions the CEC will current concerning the state of affairs.

“If we had been to take a look at the very fact, was there any invitation to vote for one thing or concepts in that message – there was none. (…) If there isn’t any direct invitation to “vote for me” or concepts of a welfare state or one thing comparable, then there isn’t any agitation”, M. Jurkynas mentioned to Eltai, noting that the CEC didn’t detect a violation.

“This was a suggestion of the CEC – they mentioned that solely after the elections will they decide whether or not this can be a violation. The CEC itself didn’t discover a violation. It was a suggestion made with out figuring out whether or not it was a violation. That suggestion had no authorized foundation. Due to this fact, in such a case, it is rather troublesome to say one thing, whether or not it was legally campaigned to vote for one thing”, emphasised the political scientist.

On Sunday morning, a put up appeared on the social account of the top of the nation with an invite to watch the election outcomes collectively. In response to the put up, the CEC advisable that the message be eliminated. Nevertheless, after thanking the Presidency for the advice, it refused to take action.

As Chairman of the CEC Lina Petronienė instructed Elta, the fee will consider this case after the elections.

ELTA reminds that the ban on campaigning has come into impact within the nation since midnight, which can proceed till the tip of voting on this election on Sunday night.

Could 26 within the second spherical of the presidential elections held – identical to 5 years in the past – the top of the nation G. Nausėda, who’s in search of re-election, and the conservative candidate, Prime Minister I. Šimonytė, met.

2024-05-27 04:56:35

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