If Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga maintains public attention and approval, 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, a political communication expert 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 introduced, A. 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 the 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 analytics company “Mediaskopas,” provided by 15min and collected from Lithuanian press, online portals, news agencies, radio, and television reports.
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