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“I think that I. Vēgėlė did the right thing, because from the way the opponents are behaving now, they try to talk all the time that we bought I. Vēgėlė. And we, when we just discussed with him, thought that it was impossible to support him – we were convinced of that”, – to the news portal lrytas.lt said R. Karbauskis.
According to him, initially the peasants were informed by the representatives of the Central Election Commission (CEC) that they would not be able to financially support an independent candidate.
“I’ve been saying all along that we can’t even back it up, so it was really weird after that when it turned out we could after all.” And only then did I say that it was necessary (I. Vēgėlė – post office) to ask, because according to what our opponents and his opponents are saying, in that case, financial support could be a disservice – then they would say that, well, you see, they bought it”, argued the chairman of LVŽS.
Last week, R. Karbauskis said that the party will consider the possibility of financially supporting I. Vēgėlė, who is seeking the post of president.
“In any case, we are no longer participating in the election campaign. We had made the whole plan, planned the financing and we can certainly afford to contribute to the candidate we are now supporting in the election campaign. It’s logical. But we ask the candidate if he would like such support. And if he expressed such a wish, we would consider the possibility of supporting him,” R. Karbauskis told ELTAI at the time.
This statement, according to the leader of the peasants, was his question to I. Vēgēle, to which the candidate answered on Wednesday.
“That is his answer, and it is, in my opinion, a very correct one, because that money is not worth what the Conservatives, the Social Democrats and his other opponents accuse him of selling out.” He neither surrendered nor did we buy him,” said R. Karbauskis.
“If I were him, I’d say no too,” he added.
R. Karbauskis also calls the data of the survey conducted by the company “Vilmorus” as “absolute nonsense” that the majority of peasant voters would like to support the current leader of the country, Gitanas Nausėdas, rather than the party-backed I. Vēgėlė in the presidential elections.
As the “Vilmorus” survey showed, those who said they would vote for A.Verygas in the presidential elections, when asked what their second choice would be, more often mentioned G.Nausėdas (55%) than I.Vēgėlės (7.5%). last name
According to R. Karbauskis, the opinion polls ordered by both peasants and I. Vēgėlė show the opposite result.
“They are trying to prove something that really doesn’t exist, because the decision is correct, it is very useful for I. Vēgėlė, and I. Vēgėlė understands it – and we understand it. And people understand that unification is taking place, which does not actually happen in Lithuania,” he said.
Lawyer I. Vēgėlė announced on Facebook on Wednesday that he had “made a principled decision”.
“In response to the fact that the Party of Lithuanian Peasants and Greens is considering offering me financial support, I inform you in advance that I will have to refuse it. Thank you for the trust and the necessary political, valuable non-financial support. However, I made this decision because I want to represent all the people of Lithuania. I want to remain independent, impartial, not financially committed to any political party.
I thank LVŽS for non-financial support and all party members for their support and desire to cooperate. I call for the continued mobilization of opposition forces against the current government to change the flawed political system and open it up to the people,” he wrote.
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