He has also refused to comment on things said by Social Democratic leader Algirdas Butkevičius - that the two agreed that Uspaskich would renounce his Seimas mandate and would not work in the new Seimas.
"Talk to Butkevičius. I cannot comment on what he says. I can only comment on what I say," Uspaskich told BNS when asked about the agreement with Butkevičius.
Asked whether he was going to work in the Seimas, Uspaskich said: "I don't have a decision yet."
He also refused to answer what ministries the Labour Party would want to head. He told journalists earlier that his party would want economy-related ministries.
"I am better at economics. We would like to have economy-related ministries," the Labour Party leader said. Asked whether they were interested in the Ministries of Transport and Agriculture due to their control of EU funds, Uspaskich said: "No, it has nothing to do with that."
Social Democratic leader Butkevičius said in an interview on Sunday that Uspaskich would renounce his Seimas mandate. "Of course, you should ask him (Uspaskich – BNS), and he should give the answer, as far as I know, we really should not speculate and confuse the public. We have agreed that he will not be in the Seimas," the Social Democratic leader said.
A week earlier, Uspaskich said he would leave the European Parliament to assume a ministerial position but, he said, the opportunity to implement the Labour Party's programme would be the key prerequisite.
The Presidium and Council of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania approved the party's plans to form a ruling coalition with the Labour Party and the Order and Justice Party - but without Uspaskich, or Vytautas Gapšys, the party's other leader, as long as they are defendants in a criminal case.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has spoken against the Labour Party participating in the coalition.
