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On Tuesday, after deliberation, the Seimas agreed to declare the Seimas’s resolution “On the functions of Lukiškės square in the state capital” invalid.
This is a completely formal action, but the discussion on this topic has been a great opportunity for some MPs from the rostrum to say what they think about the move from Lukiškės Square to the Lithuanian Research Center on Genocide and Resistance (LGGRTC), although the transfer was not on Tuesday’s agenda.
Julius Kalinskas / 15min photo / Seimas seated
The fact that this is not an issue was discussed only by conservative Vytautas Juozapaitis, who called the discussion a tragicomedy and farce.
“Those people who explain and moralize here so that they can at least read what law and what legislation we are talking about. This is an absolutely technical solution to repeal de facto an invalid decision. Read the draft resolution, if you understand it, then apologize at least to yourself, ”said the MP.
A.Anušauskas: without additional funds, money will be stolen from LGGRTC
Conservative Arvydas Anušauskas said that the square is not the only place where the monument to freedom should be, there are more squares.
“The point is in other things. The monument to the freedom struggles should have been around for a long time, but everything was buried in bureaucratic things, ”he explained.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Arvydas Anušauskas
The Seimas member said that although the promoters of the transfer of the square were convinced that no additional funds would be needed for the implementation of this idea, he did not doubt that without additional funds it would harm the research center itself.
“Without funds, but by enacting this feature in law, money will be stolen from them,” he said.
A. Anušauskas stated that there may be more desire to reach an agreement on the part of the Vilnius city municipality.
“I think Lukiškės square deserves attention, but not bureaucratic,” said a member of the Seimas.
The “peasant” Robertas Šarknickas explained that there is additional money, now only the municipality of Vilnius receives it.
“There is money, there is no need to deceive people,” he said. According to their logic, the money for the maintenance of the plaza travels after the plaza and is received by someone who is entrusted with the maintenance of the plaza.
According to R.Šarknickas, there has been a discussion about this square for a long time.
He said that the square had become a point of choice and was made by the party of the mayor of Vilnius, Remigijus Šimašius.
“It just came to our knowledge then. The word ‘freedom’ is like a bible for every Lithuanian, and we probably need to refine and clarify, put the dots together, what we want from that square and what its vision should be,” he lamented.
The MP recalled the square sculpture contest and admitted that he preferred “Vytis, who runs at full speed.”
“It just came to our attention then. But the contestants argued too, and that’s how the contest ended,” he said.
Another MP, Povilas Urbšys, spoke at the meeting that Vytis is a “test of courage for all of us.”
Sigismund Gedvila / 15min photo / Robertas Šarknickas
K.Masiulis: The idea in Vytis square is mine
Conservative Kęstutis Masiulis declared that the idea of Vytis Lukiškės Square belongs to him.
“I am very happy that this idea has been captured, I am very happy that the municipality has not captured it,” he said.
However, K. Masiulis regretted having wanted to surrender the square by force, that it was opportune to sit down with the leaders of the capital and resolve this issue peacefully.
The center, according to him, will not build Vytis because there is not even money earmarked for it.
“I am in favor of Vytis being there, but he will not be there with such decisions. There is an advertising campaign,” said the MP.
P. Urbšys replied that if Gediminas Hill had been entrusted to the Vilnius Municipality, it would have collapsed long ago.
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