Lithuanian PM says backs benefits for Landsbergis

  • 2017-08-30
LETA/TBT Staff   Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis thinks that Lithuania's first post-Soviet leader Vytautas Landsbergis should be granted benefits that a former head of state is entitled to by law, but not the status of a president. "If we speak about granting a certain title, I think this is not what matters and that we cannot call him what he was not, even retroactively," he said on LRT Radio on Tuesday, August 29. According to Skvernelis, Landsbergis was the head of state when he served as the...
 
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