Commenting on the prime minister's statement that negotiations with regional partners on the new nuclear power plant would be continued, Vilpišauskas told BNS on Monday that such a position "is hardly any different from what is in the previous government's national energy strategy."
The declaration that the Visaginas nuclear power plant project would be continued only after commercial rates were improved and additional conditions were fulfilled, is an attempt to show that the incumbent government is trying to improve the terms.
"I believe it's their attempt to distance themselves from the terms of the project drafted by previous government and show that the incumbent government is trying to improve those terms. It's hard to say how much of pure PR and how much of real content changes there are here as there's too little information. But I believe a certain element of PR is clearly visible here," Vilpišauskas told BNS.
In his opinion, the government will most probably continue trying to argue that people had rejected the previous nuclear power project in the referendum.
Elected into parliament last October, the Social Democrats have criticized the nuclear power plant project by the previous center-right government, based on which, the three Baltic states and Japan's Hitachi would built a 1,350-megawatt nuclear power plant in Lithuania. The previous government led by conservative Andrius Kubilius then said final investment decisions would be made after talks only in 2015.
