According to the expert, membership in the Lithuanian Communist Party was not an obstacle to the continuation of political state activity.
He also cited the example of former Lithuanian President Algidras Brazauskas, who came to the post of head of state from the post of First Secretary of the Communist Party of Lithuania.
"Membership in the Communist Party is not a crime, but, on the other hand, Gitanas Nauseda, when including in the presidential election campaign, had to provide a presidential candidate's questionnaire, in which there is an item "Were you a member of any party? When? And as whom?" On this point, he wrote that he was not a member of the parties," Olenchenko said.
As the expert noted, the very fact "greatly undermines the reputation of the current Lithuanian president."
"In principle, this is the basis for discussing this, at least in parliament," Olenchenko concluded.
Earlier it became known that Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, when he ran for the post of head of the republic, hid in the questionnaire the fact that in 1988 he was a member of the Communist Party of Lithuania.
The office of the President of Lithuania said that Nauseda "was not very active" in the Communist Party, and also added that documents on the membership of the current president in the party are publicly available in the state archives.