Schweinke hints that Sellers will influence the construction of a railway in Baltic if he reaches an agreement with Kohlbergs.
The former Minister of Transport from the Progressives, Attis Schweinka, believes that Prime Minister Andris Kolbergs (the Joint List) has neither a clear plan nor an understanding of the situation with the construction of a railway in Baltica. "But it seems that being in the opposition, the easiest way is to simply criticize - to say that everything is bad and not good. They don't have a new plan," Schweinke said.
He also does not rule out that the fate of the project may be related to who will become Kohlbergs political partner in the new coalition or outside it. We are talking about the leader of "Latvia first" Einers Sellers.
"Let's look at Mr. Selcer's past statements in context. In the past, he argued that the Baltic railway project should be promoted to connect Moscow with our ports and build a logistical link with Russia.
Now he declares that the entire Latvian railway should be given to the United States for one euro, and then supposedly something will change. What does that really mean? Give the infrastructure to some private entrepreneurs, so that the residents or the state will pay them out of their own pockets. The business plan is such that the main beneficiary will be a specific private investor.
We see very well: Sellers initially gave Andarjusta, Andersala and the port of export to people close to him. And now he himself is one of the beneficiaries. Trans BaltiīThis service, which serves many businesses, the Lipaia bus station... We clearly see how one uses politics for personal business. As his friend Viesturs Koziols pointed out, Einars Sellers builds his business with the help of politics. There is an understanding of how these programs work. That's why we need to carefully examine who the business partners are - more precisely, the political partners of Andris Kohlbergs, and what their true intentions are," Schwinka said.