Those who incite President Gitanas Nausėda against the incumbent government are subversive, says Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania’s first post-independence leader.
He spoke at a meeting of freedom defenders at the Seimas on Friday.
“Those who come and incite the president against the government are also subversives. Do they understand that? I don't know. Are they doing it out of stupidity or in pursuit of their own projects, as we have seen lately?” Landsbergis said.
He was reacting to the recent criticism voiced by Frederkas Jansonas, a presidential advisor, for the Foreign Ministry, led by Landsbergis’ grandson Gabrielius Landsbergis, over the existing procedure for appointing ambassadors and the alleged attempts of the “statesmen” clan to establish itself within the diplomatic service.
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Landsbergis also criticised politicians and public figures who call for the dissolution of the Seimas as some opposition members have registered a draft resolution calling for an early general election.
On Friday, the Seimas is marking the January 13 events and paying respect to freedom defenders who died during the Soviet crackdown in Vilnius on January 13, 1991.
On that day, 14 people were killed and around 1,000 were injured when Soviet troops stormed the Vilnius TV Tower and the Radio and Television Committee building. The Soviets attempted to overthrow by military force the legitimate government of Lithuania after the country declared its independence from the Soviet Union on March 11, 1990.
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