2024-04-19 12:29:00
“CEC, without conducting a detailed investigation of the facts, made a decision based on assumptions about a few rose petals,” I. Vēgėlė said to Eltai on Thursday.
“There must be a serious investigation, the CEC must prove that I really bribed, that these are persons who have the right to vote.” Now it’s just an assumption,” he added.
According to I. Vēgėlė, the CEC should not be concerned about his election campaign, but about the visits of Gitanas Nausėda, who is seeking the post of the country’s leader for the second term, to the regions. According to the lawyer, the current president presents his electoral program on trips financed by taxpayers’ money.
“I am surprised that the CEC does not count the tens of thousands of euros of taxpayers’ money that the presidential candidate Gitanas Nausėda spends during the election campaign,” emphasized I. Vēgėlė.
“People are surprised, send me letters, quotes, recordings made on the phone, when the president presents his election program in meetings with voters. He directly conducts the election campaign. We live in the kingdom of crooked mirrors,” the lawyer testified.
ELTA reminds that on Thursday the CEC decided that I. Vēgėlė, by giving flowers to the women he met during the Kaziuk fair in the capital, violated the stipulated ban on bribing voters.
In March, I. Vēgėlė submitted a complaint to the CEC regarding the visits of the current head of state to the regions.
As the presidential election campaign heats up, he is not the only one raising this question. The eyes of other competitors of the current head of the country, G. Nausėdas, are also focused on the visits of the master of the Daukanta Palace to Lithuania.
The presidential candidates are convinced that the purpose of these trips by the head of the country is to carry out his election campaign. Therefore, according to G. Nausėda’s rivals, visits to the regions financed by taxpayers’ money are an obvious violation of the Election Code, which the CEC should also be concerned about.
True, the Presidency does not agree with the accusations and points out that such visits to the regions took place during his entire term.
2024-04-19 12:29:00