The Lithuanian political summer never went on vacations. Over the past dozen of days the Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Mr Arunas Valinskas kept persuading the public that the media reports about this alleged links to Kaunas’ criminal gang ‘Daktarai’ was only a result of internal political fight in the party.

Since this information has been dominating the Lithuanian media the President Grybauskaite spokesman Balsys said today that Mr Valinskas ‘should assume all moral and political responsibility because such situation affects the Lithuanian political system and damages the trust of citizens in state institutions’.

Since Valinskas did not understood Grybauskaite’s hint she repeated later that “I proposed that this is high-time for an honourable and timely resignation from office,” Grybauskaite told the press.’ She also added that “If the Seimas speaker himself fails to do so, I think the Seimas should step up to finish the matter in the autumn”.

The Seimas Speaker Valinskas told the press that he would do just that and will check Seimas’ confidence in him when it will convene for the autumn session on 10 September. Valinskas restated that he would undertake political responsibility after receiving official conclusions regarding the accusations against him. He said he did not intend to “hold on to one post or another.”

Valinskas has also publicly suggested that his former party colleagues from the Resurrection faction elected to the Seimas together with him should also give up their Seimas mandates. If they ready to do so Mr Valinskas would resign from the Speakers post and will also give up his Seimas mandate.

Head of the Seimas National Security Committee MP Aunauskas during his radio interview to the public radio said that according to the data available to the Prosecutors Office Valinskas have not done any illegal activities.