{"id":138090,"date":"2025-05-14T17:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/138090\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"lithuanian-police-to-look-into-ex-presidential-candidates-controversial-remarks","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/138090\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian police to looking into ex-presidential candidate\u2019s controversial remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1128\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/vajtkus-minsknews.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/vajtkus-minsknews.jpg 1128w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/vajtkus-minsknews-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/vajtkus-minsknews-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/vajtkus-minsknews-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/vajtkus-minsknews-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1128px) 100vw, 1128px\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n  \n       <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n                <span>(Minsk Novosti)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>May 14,&nbsp;<em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong>&nbsp;Lithuania\u2019s Prosecutor General Nida Grunskien\u0117&nbsp;has directed police to look into allegations made by former presidential candidate Eduard Vaitkaus in Minsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On May 13, Belarusian state media quoted Vaitkaus as saying that President Gitanas Nauseda had been elected illegally and that Lithuania had embarked on the path of eliminating Lithuanians and losing its statehood, <em>BNS <\/em>reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vaitkaus finished fifth in the 2024 presidential race with 7.31 percent of the vote. He was defeated in the 2008 and 2020 parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has been in Minsk since May 13. He gave a news conference at the office of the state-run <em>BelTA<\/em> news agency and an interview to <em>Belarus 1<\/em> and met with leaders of the pro-government Bie\u0142aja Ru\u015b party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He described Nauseda as an illegitimate president and branded Belarusian opposition activists \u201cextremists.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 14,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;Lithuania\u2019s Prosecutor General Nida Grunskien\u0117&nbsp;has directed police to look into allegations made by former presidential candidate Eduard Vaitkaus in Minsk. On May 13, Belarusian state media quoted Vaitkaus as saying that President Gitanas Nauseda had been elected illegally and that Lithuania had embarked on the path of eliminating Lithuanians and losing its statehood, BNS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":138081,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-138090","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lithuanian police to looking into ex-presidential candidate\u2019s controversial remarks | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 14,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;Lithuania\u2019s Prosecutor General Nida Grunskien\u0117&nbsp;has directed police to look into allegations made by former presidential\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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