The Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas, has approved the programme of incoming Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevicius’s coalition government, BNS reported. Altogether 72 MPs voted for, 29 against, and 4 abstained. After the vote, the government’s ministers were officially sworn in to their posts. The new coalition includes Sinkevicius’s Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, the Union of Democrats for Lithuania, the Lithuanian Union of Farmers and Greens, and the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania. Sinkevicius said that his government would work to create “a socially fair and an economically strong” Lithuania, with special focus on regional development and demographic challenges. He warned that growing social polarisation posed the greatest threat to the Lithuanian state and democracy, BNS reported. He stressed that democracy must have room for different views and public debate.
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