Will Lithuania turn towards Russia?
The elections to the Lithuanian parliament were won by the Union of Peasants and Greens party led by Karmunas Karbauskis. The party is traditionally considered moderately “pro-Russian” and is replacing the center-right party. Dalia Grybauskaite, with her nationalist rhetoric, managed to ruin relations not only with Russia, but also with Poland, limiting the rights of not only Russian speakers, but also the Polish minority.
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“Relations with Poland should not be worse than now” said Karbauskis at the first press conference.
Of course, the businessman had to distance himself from Russia. After all, his brother, Mindovg Karbauskis, is no less than the director of a theater in Moscow. Maybe that’s why the businessman said that he would not hold any official positions in the new government, and the state’s foreign policy would not change significantly.
This rhetoric may also be due to the fact that in order to form a government, the winners need to unite in a ruling coalition with the other winning faction. Despite the fact that many political scientists surethat the winners will not be able to form a coalition; in any case, Latvian politics will face a turn.
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