Nausheda, a former banker who was elected president of the Baltic country in 2019, is a staunch critic of the Kremlin and has strongly supported Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s full-scale invasion, and called for stronger Western sanctions on Moscow Is.
He Play Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban shook hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin last October and accused him of “flirting.”[ing] With a regime that is carrying out very brutal atrocities on the territory of Ukraine.
but nauseda has advocated reconciliation With China after relations between the two countries soured over Taiwan’s de facto embassy in Vilnius. Nauseida criticized the Lithuanian government’s decision to allow the representative office to open in 2021 under the name Taiwan instead of Taipei. “Mistake.”
Simonyte shares Nausicaä’s tough stance on Russia, but is more liberal on social issues such as gay civil partnerships, which the incumbent opposes. Nausiedda defeated Simonyte in the 2019 presidential election with 66 percent of the vote.