If Minister of Health Aurelijus Veryga maintains attention and public favor, and successfully overcomes the COVID-19 crisis, it is possible that he himself will lead the “farmers’” list in the Seimas elections, says Andrius Šuminas, an expert in political communication at Vilnius University (VU). After a state of emergency was declared in Lithuania in March due to the spread of COVID-19 and quarantine was imposed, Veryga, who also became head of the Emergency Situations Operations Center, has been mentioned in the media far more often than other members of the Government. He also speaks about coronavirus the most — twice as often as Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and three times as often as President Gitanas Nausėda. This is shown by data from the media monitoring and analysis company “Mediaskopas,” provided by 15min and collected from the Lithuanian press, online news portals, news agencies, radio, and television reports.
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