So let’s take a look at how the problems of pensioners and socially supported groups are reflected in the programs of the candidates for Daukantas Square Palace.
The programs published by the Central Election Commission (CEC) are very concise, and a first-year sociology student is capable of analyzing their content. Of course, the presidential election program is not an action plan, but it presents the candidate’s political profile.
And if the appeal to the voters is based on “I am the best because I assert something different than what the competitor says”, then what can be expected from the candidate after he wins the voters’ sympathy? Nothing is left on the to-do list without condemnation – it’s like a few rattles on the tree after Christmas.
Of course, this style of the “program” impresses those who do not tolerate others, so they guarantee the votes of “their own”. But the state is not guaranteed a strategically thinking president.
This election campaign is based on the assumption that Lithuania is being pushed into the field of high risks and dangers by external forces. Therefore, the need to strengthen security and bear a greater burden of costs for deterrence and defense measures is emphasized in the programs of most of the candidates.
This election campaign is based on the assumption that Lithuania is being pushed into the field of high risks and dangers by external forces. Therefore, the need to strengthen security and bear a greater burden of costs for deterrence and defense measures is emphasized in the programs of most candidates. Although, to be honest, not everyone. Opposing this point of view, the applicant interprets such lexicon as provoking a potential aggressor. That’s all, the voters will judge who provokes what.
It seems that this and the subsequent election campaign for seats in the European Parliament will be between two poles – strengthening state security and social integration of society. It’s just that the second pole has much less magnetism in the current geopolitical situation. It is no coincidence that pensioners and the disabled are mentioned in most applicant programs, but only after a comma. There are also few electoral presentations in which the applicants link the security of the state with active social policy and the desire for more decisive integration of society and strengthening of internal ties within it.
Social issues are only apparently less relevant. And this has been confirmed more than once and twice by various polls. Because society’s determination to support government and self-government institutes, maintain its sovereignty, resist foreign provocations comes precisely from social relations and social justice.
Social issues are only apparently less relevant. And this has been confirmed more than once and twice by various polls. Because society’s determination to support the institutions of government and self-government, to maintain its sovereignty, to resist foreign provocations comes precisely from social relations and social justice.
Because the quality of social life is above all governance ethics and public morality. Someone will say, “ensure economic progress and new technology and we’ll be on top.” It’s not like that. This way of thinking has made a lot of money. When the promising labor force from Lithuania moved towards richer, democratic countries with higher standards of official ethics, we had to hear business people’s arguments: let’s go, we will hire immigrants from the East cheaper.
What are the consequences? Maybe they bring profit to the business, but certainly not work culture or service ethics, not to mention national values. It is not for nothing that senior officials are already saying that it is better to pay back than to accept immigrants according to the quotas set by the European Union.
The quality of social connections and the strength of moral bonds are universal, they permeate all manifestations of politics, business, public sphere without exception. This is confirmed by recent stories with businessmen filling the treasuries of hostile countries, or whatever the so-called check scandals are. If we had higher standards of public morality, such phenomena would have been impossible.
The election campaign of the President, as well as of the future European Parliament, will gain momentum and move voters if the candidates are ready to speak matter-of-factly through the prism of social life.
Conclusions? The election campaign of the President, as well as of the future European Parliament, will gain momentum and move voters if the candidates are ready to speak matter-of-factly through the prism of social life.
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