“I am satisfied with Minister K. Budrys and, it seems to me, I have said this more than once. I do not plan to change him. I trust the minister”, the Head of the Government testified, who 15 minutes in the show “Let’s talk. With Tad Ignatavičius” also spoke about considerations of how measured her ambitions are to express themselves in the country’s foreign policy.
It is true that I.Ruginienė did not directly answer whether she has absolutely no complaints against the Minister of Foreign Affairs. “What are the complaints? That he works dishonestly?”, the prime minister evaded the answer with the question.
I.Ruginienė denied having formulated the task of organizing her meeting with US President Donald Trump to K.Budrius. “This story is fake,” the prime minister denied the mission, which was widely discussed in the media, allegedly for the minister.
Then it was considered that I.Ruginienė, by assigning K.Budris a difficult task, might be looking for some pretext to attract the Minister of Foreign Affairs or trying to drive a wedge between the head of diplomacy and the president who supports him, Gitana Nausėda.
