Current President of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda it was Journalist Dovydas Pancerovas says he is a member of the CPSU. Data on this part of the biography of the Lithuanian leader posted on social networks on Wednesday, April 5th.
“The documents show that in May 1988 Nauseda applied for admission to the Communist Party, of which he was a member, in June of the same year,” said Pantserovas.
As evidence, the journalist cited fragments of documents recently published by the private archive of the republic.
According to this information, during the anti-communist rallies of the Sąjūdis movement in the country, Nausėda joined the Communist Party. The application for admission to the CPSU was made on May 20, 1988, and the party card was issued on June 27 of the same year.
Nausėda, while running for president in 2019, did not fill out the party membership clause in the application form. However, it is not mandatory.
Now the political opponents of the current Lithuanian leader accuse him of this fact. The Communist Party was banned in Lithuania, but membership in the party before it ceased to operate in 1991 is not an obstacle to holding high-level posts.
Journalist Pancerovas himself believes that membership of the CPSU is not an “indelible stain” in the official’s biography.
At the same time, Nausėda publicly associates himself with Sąjūdis, which, according to Pancerovas, is “somewhat inconsistent with the fact that he joined the countercamp”.
Commenting on the situation, the Lithuanian Presidency office reported that all documents relating to Nausėda’s “inactive” Communist Party membership are in the public domain in the state archive. TASS.
“President Gitanas Nauseda was accepted to KP in May 1988. Documents related to this are kept in the State Archives and are in the public domain.
Since the beginning of Sąjūdis’ activities, Nausėda has not participated in KP’s activities,” he said. BNS.
On Wednesday, the Motherland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats faction in the Seimas approved a bill “on the recognition of the Lithuanian Communist Party as a criminal organization responsible for the expulsion of the country’s residents during the Soviet era.”
Nauseda’s Biography
Gitanas Nauseda was born in 1964, he is 58 years old. He studied at the Faculty of Industrial Economics at Vilnius University in the 1980s and has been teaching there since 1987.
In 2004, he supported the election campaign of former Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus. And on September 17, 2018, Nauseda announced his candidacy for the presidential election in 2019.
In the first round of these elections, the politician took second place with 30.95% of the votes, but in the second round Ingrida Simonyte won with 65.86% of the votes. Nausėda took office as head of state for five years on 12 July 2019. The next presidential election will be held in Lithuania in 2024.
On February 24, 2022, Nauseda recorded a video message in Russian to the citizens of the Russian Federation, urging them to protest the start of a special operation in Ukraine.
Lithuanian movement for perestroika
Sąjūdis is a socio-political organization of Lithuania that led the process of the separation of the Lithuanian SSR from the Soviet Union and the restoration of the independence of the Republic of Lithuania in 1988-1990.
The creation of the Initiative Group of the Lithuanian Perestroika Movement on 3 June 1988 at a meeting attended by about 500 representatives of the technical and humanitarian intelligentsia, 17 of which were members of the Lithuanian Communist Party, is considered the beginning of history. From the Sąjudis movement.
On August 23, 1988, on the anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a mass rally organized by Sąjūdis was held in Vingis Park in Vilnius.
Movement support groups were organized in businesses and institutions. According to open data, about 180,000 people joined the Sąjūdi.