Mayor-elect of Vilnius to negotiate with SocDems and Freedom Party over coalition

Valdas Benkunskas, mayor-elect of Vilnius, has revealed that the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) will engage in talks with the Freedom Party and the Social Democratic Party (LSDP) in order to form a coalition at Vilnius City Municipal Council.

“It is important to have a coalition not only in arithmetical sense but also to somehow shape a broad one and on ideological basis. The Homeland Union is working together with the Freedom Party in the national government. The Social Democrats are returning to the city council after a break. Of course, this party is from the opposite spectrum, but it is a traditional party that has a clear ideology, clearly expressed values in certain areas,” Benkunskas said in a press conference hosted on Monday by the news agency ELTA at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania.