The President Algirdas Brazauskas and the President Valdas Adamkus are in unison dissatisfied with the Conservatives and the Prime Minister Mr. Andrius Kubilius. They are more in favour of the Chairman of the Seimas Mrs. Irena Degutienė, who is “more clever”, because she is professedly more friendly towards the Social democrats. This kind of a “package” was let to plane in the public sphere.

This “package” is disseminated methodically and in a planned way – one can observe the waves of preliminary bombardment: the “Lietuvos rytas”, the “national” broadcaster, the “national” broadcaster, and the “Lietuvos rytas”. Cannons are shooting: the two previous Presidents are speaking about the advantages, brought by the “rainbow coalition”, the mischief, done by Mr. A.Kubilius, the wisdom of Mrs.I. Degutienė and the irrepressibility of the Social democrats.

Of course, nobody in Lithuania is prohibited from having his own opinion and expressing it publicly, but the question is if both ex-Presidents actually are willing the same things they are speaking about? Or somebody else is trying to speak by his or her lips? Already for some time it’s possible to get an impression that the two Presidents are being used as the billboard, on which the Social democrats are announcing their dreams about the government. What makes this feeling even more uncomfortable; it’s the cynicism, with which the President A.Brazauskas is exploited, who deserved a good rest. Instead of compassion and tranquillity the hardly ill person as a present gets a task from the party – the auto-mechanics of LSDP (Lithuanian Social Democratic Party) are trying to start the branded limousine AMB [AMB is an abbreviation, used for the name and surname of the President Brazauskas by Lithuanian media] in order to make him to grumble with every last ounce of strength something about Mr. A. Kubilius.

However, the President A.Brazauskas is at least working to his party while the President V.Adamkus is declaring himself to be independent and non-partisan. However, this was long time ago – during the last three- four years we already got used to the fact, that from the previous celebrity of “Santara-Šviesa” remained only an oldish tape-recorder, which tapes are renewed and broadcasted by the sound operators of the Social democrats. For example, now such a tape is playing: “I.Degutienė should become a Prime Minister, the Social democrats should be involved into the coalition”.

The flexible leader of LSDP Mr. Algirdas Butkevičius immediately comments this track, broadcasted by the so-called national broadcaster: yes, the opinion of the President V. Adamkus is very interesting, and worth to be listened to, and the President of the Republic Mrs. Dalia Grybauskaitė has an immediate duty to express her opinion on this question. Thanks God, in the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania such a duty of the President is not stated, namely, a duty to explain somebody’s dreams about government.

Thanks God, Mrs. I. Degutienė distinguishes the dream-reader from the reality and refuses to take part in the Social democrats’ push to the government.

Dreams remain dreams; however, what in reality would mean the return of the Social democrats? In economy, the governance of the state and the relations of the government with the media, such a principle will be returned: “it is more important to spend money than to earn them” (this principle is documented in the alternative government programme, presented by the LSDP this week; by the way, this programme is almost identical with the “conditions”, that Mr. Viktoras Uspaskichas is raising to the coalition).

This means that the policy, which was implemented till the parliamentary elections that could be called as “after us it can be a flood” is trying to be returned. This is the policy, which scotched the introduction of euro and left the country totally unprepared for the struggle with the economic crisis.

In this sense the Social democrats are behaving as hypocrites when criticizing the Conservatives’ policy of economy rescue. Yes, Mr. A.Kubilius is making mistakes, and sometimes – crude mistakes, however, he does these mistakes when trying to rescue the economy of Lithuania, while the aim of the Social democrats was to frazzle out the economy, thus trying to satisfy the interest of the supporters of the social democrats. The return of the Social democrats would mean the stopping of LEO dismantlement and immediate reanimation; in the worst case this would mean the generous compensation of “legitimate” expectations of the private investor to earn billions.

When Minister of Energy Arvydas Sekmokas announced a course towards the liquidation of LEO, the tape, that again was broadcasted through the President V.Adamkus, was not broadcasted in vain: that time the President was complaining about not being able to understand why the dismantlement of LEO is necessary. The Social democrats will light on the red light for the changes in the courts and judiciary. In the very common sense, the Social democrats are the government of friendly mutual assistance, in which the courts are playing an important role – they are helping those friends, who are working in the most dangerous part of the front – namely, there, where the laws are not respected.

The existing system is perfect – it is perfect for the Social democrats, thus, it is not necessary to change anything in it. The system is perfect, and it is perfect not only in the courts, but also in the whole state. The former political scientist Mr. Mindaugas Jurkynas (after taking the position of the adviser of the ex-Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas, he ceased being a political scientist) on the eve of parliamentary elections was explaining sincerely and feelingly the “iron truth”: people, please, understand, that it’s impossible to govern Lithuanian without the Social democrats.

Thus, the return of the Social democrats would also end the structural and governance reforms. For eight years the Social democrats retained the systems of higher education and health unreformed, in the ministries the Social democrats enlarged the vast army of highly consuming, but not-hard-working officers. And now any trial to optimize governance is awakening these voices: “the best specialists are being fired” (i.e. the former Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy Mr. Anicetas Ignotas). The return of the Social democrats would mean a farewell to the changes in ”Lithuanian Railways” and “Lithuanian Post”. 

Maybe under the circumstances of the crisis this is not so much important, but the return of Social democrats would mean the death for the reform of the State Security Department of the Republic of Lithuania (SSD), that would occur before its start. Under the governance of the Social democrats, the SSD became a gambler in the internal policy, who was planning new parties for the election, who was feeding “the right” groups of business and media and who was keeping an eye on the “state” secrets of Social democrats and their press.

If the Social democrats will return, Mr. Povilas Malakauskas can expect to survive. Now the guard of Mr. Dainius Dabašinskas, which is scattered in the embassies (as in the shelters for political refugees), will be able to return quietly to the native place. (Mr. D. Dabašinskas is having a rest in the embassy in Kiev, the head of the first board (intelligence) Rimantas Martinonis is preparing to leave to the consulate in Kaliningrad, and the former advisor of the President Adamkus for “SSD questions” Mr. Mindaugas Ladyga is going to the Embassy in Minsk.)

If the Social democrats will come back, the Seimas will not get the “notes of SSD”, especially the notorious 12th note of SSD second board (contra-intelligence) “About the impact of business groups on the media”, that includes conversations of the Russian gas intermediators with “national” media bodies about money. (Why are sounding the cannons of the “Lietuvos rytas” and the “national” broadcaster?)

If the Social democrats will return, the system of the resting-house in the Lithuanian diplomatic service for the “veteran statesmen” and other related persons will remain. Then Mr. Antanas Valionis will be able to stop his worries about his embassy in Riga, Mr. Juozas Bernatonis – in Tallinn. Then Mr. Albinas Januška and Mr. Darius Jurgelevičius will be able to come back from their exile in Georgian government, and Mr. Valteris Baliukonis will be again able to feel himself as a white man.

If both ex-Presidents are welcoming the return of the Social democrats, this means, that they want things to be as they were. It means that the worst supporter of Mr. R. Paksas [Rolandas Paksas was the President of Lithuania, impeached in 2004] in the Seimas is better than the best Social democrat, because he is not a part of the machine of the “perfect” social democratic state. The same could be said about the fraction of the Labourites in the Seimas. Without its leader, of course, as Mr. Uspaskichas, that has a natural artistic talent; at the time is acting as a red cloth of the Social democrats for professor Vytautas Lansbergis – in order to tease Mr. A. Kubilius.

However, what is the worth of one benefit of a quite vulgar artist, when we are speaking about how to choose the allies, while taking into consideration the sum of strategic goals of the state – the defeat of the crisis, governance and structural reforms, the supervision of the special services, the arrangement of courts and judiciary. If the attainment of these goals is really important, then the Social democrats are the worst allies, because their goals are opposite. Their goals are opposite, as they have been in the government too long and they weaned the state on working to itself and themselves got used to this. And due to this the government is being changed in the civilized countries – in order not to get habituated.

I would like to end by a merry tune: if the Social democrats are already dreaming about the government, this means, that the economic crisis is already retreating, as there’re only two things that are motivating the Social democrats – the elite big capital and money. This means that the Social democrats already can smell something…

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