Former Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis believes that the Prime Minister, Ingrida Šimonytė, could be more active in the search for a consensus. At the same time, Giedrius Surplys, a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs (URK), proposes to announce a new competition for the ambassador to Poland and asks rhetorically why the President has not thrown in the last trump card – he did not announce that he can no longer trust the Minister in charge of the country's diplomacy.
"We have received an unofficial answer so far that such an inquiry might exceed the President's constitutional powers - which sounds very strange. It is probably not for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to assess the constitutionality of a request. But in this case, there is no answer and the question of whether there was a competition (.) will be left hanging", Jansonas told the news portal tv3.lt in an interview on Wednesday.
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