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MPs reached unanimous consensus and voted unanimously on the Seimas Western Agenda resolution on Thirty Years Freedom Defenders Day. There were 117 members of the Seimas behind him, before there was only one abstention.
Towards the thirtieth anniversary of Defenders of Freedom Day, conservative Emanuel Zinger presented a draft resolution to the Seimas dedicated to this anniversary. The fourth amendment changed the wording of Mr Landsberg’s paper.
“The Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, <...>, highlighting that the historic victory was won by Lithuania, led by the Supreme Council-Restorer Seimas, the highest official of the Republic of Lithuania Vytautas Landsbergis <...>, there is no doubt that it is appropriate to declare January 13 – Defenders of Freedom Day – a day off, ”emphasizes the amended text of the resolution.
After the vote, the initiator of the resolution, E. Zinger, thanked the unanimous support and said that after a heated parliamentary debate, the decision was made to cite “the provisional basic law of that time.”
“Professor Landsberg entered history fighting in the front ranks. As a result, we may have had a slight and heated exchange of views, citing the Provisional Basic Law of the time, which mentions Professor Landsberg’s enormous contribution as “The highest official and president of the country’s highest council,” Zinger said.
After the vote, the Social Democrat Algirdas Sys thanked Mr. Zinger for his negotiations with the MPs and the amended resolution.
“I want to assure colleagues that resolution is a genre where we say words of thanks, we can provide guidance.
On a day off, we will have to present the Labor Code, speak in the Tripartite Council. Do all those procedures. This is a completely different topic, “said A. Sysas.
There were many passions before the resolution was discussed.
The draft resolution “On the 30th anniversary of Defenders of Freedom Day” has been the subject of parliamentary controversy even before being debated in the Seimas. Some politicians proposed removing the resolution from the agenda as early as this morning, while others rebuked it for not putting pressure on its three parts.
The evening session of the Seimas will consider the resolution prepared by Emanuel Zingeris “On the 30th anniversary of Defenders of Freedom Day.” He also mentions Professor Vytautas Landsbergis as the then leader, Supreme-Restorative Council Speaker Seimas.
Representatives of opposition groups explained that they supported the resolution, but said that no grounds should be created to raise the issue of granting the status of head of state to Professor V. Landsbergis.
Remigijus Žemaitaitis, president of the Freedom and Justice Party, proposed removing the resolution from the agenda and explained that the text still needs to be corrected. He claimed that the ruling of the resolution “Lithuania won the historic victory, which was later spearheaded by the Chairman of the Supreme-Restorative Council Seimas Vytautas Landsbergis” offends other signatories.
“In my head, it offends all the signers, and in fact it was all thanks to all the signers. The second is the humiliation of Romuald Ozol, who is the only person who has really contributed and directed all the volunteers, which I propose to remove from the agenda.
If it were the case that colleagues at the Seimas did not agree to the removal, I would suggest that an editorial group be created and such a horrible text of the resolution corrected. What humiliates all the defenders of the nation with such a text ”, spoke R. Žemaitaitis in the remote session of Seimas.
Conservative Vilija Aleknaitė-Abramikienė rejected such proposals. According to her, such statements by the parliamentarian go beyond logic and suggested to R. Žemaitaitis “not to use his tripartite”.
“I would like to respond to the thoughts expressed by my young colleague R. Žemaitaitis, which is very misleading. I would advise people living in the world of childhood in those days to refrain from such evaluations and attempts to oppose the Sąjūdis figures.
At least I can say that I knew Professor V. Landsbergis well as a graduate student at the Academy of Music. Romualdas Ozolas invited me to the first founding meeting of the Sąjūdis, so it is very vulgar for me to listen to such insinuations.
And I really don’t want our historic first telecommuting to be splashed with hateful saliva and reasonable accusations.
You may like the text of the resolution, you may not like it, because you have the right to vote however you want. But be good, do not put your tripod where you gods are not competent, ”replied V. Aleknaitė-Abramikienė.
We remind you that we have already written how the initial draft resolution “On the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Defenders of Freedom Day” prepared by the conservative Emanuel Zinger was previously registered in the Seimas’ legal act project registration system. He also mentions Professor Vytautas Landsbergis as the then leader, Supreme-Restorative Council Speaker Seimas.
The resolution emphasizes the 1991 meaning and importance of January 13 for the history of Lithuania. Professor V. Landsbergis is also briefly mentioned in the text as the then supervisor.
“The Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, {…} also recalling the fact that Lithuania, headed by the President of the Supreme-Restorative Council Seimas Vytautas Landsbergis, won the historic victory {…}, evaluating the importance of the 13 January – Day of the Defenders of Freedom – for the country and the history of the world, {…} there is no doubt that it is convenient to declare January 13, Day of the Defenders of Freedom, the day of unemployment ”, says the text of the resolution.
Zinger resolution initiator: no further steps planned at the Seimas
Conservative E. Zingeris, who registered the draft resolution, previously stated that it is a historic document, thanks to all the people of Lithuania, including V. Landsbergis. According to him, so far there are no intentions in the Seimas to recognize the status of head of state to V. Landsbergis.
“That line on V. Landsbergis is only 5 percent. All resolutions. It is about defending the judges who are being persecuted by the Russian Federation. It is thanks to the Scandinavian countries and America, who defended us at that time. There are many points there and one of them is the statement that then V. Landsbergis was the leader of Lithuania, the top official of Lithuania.
No further steps are planned at the Seimas. It is an assessment of history in which Professor V. Landsbergis took his place, as in the ancient S formerjūdis, whose leaders they were. The head of both the Sąjūdis and the Restorative Seimas was Professor V. Landsbergis, who was leading our fight for independence at the time. In response, at that moment came global recognition of our struggle. That fight was for all people, ”said E. Zinger previously.
As E. Zinger previously asserted, there are no plans in the Seimas to draft a law document granting V. Landsbergis the status of head of state. However, he did not rule out that if at some point in his life the teacher was so valued, it would be an assessment of Lithuanian history.
“I was his partner at the time, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. I saw his successful leadership in Lithuania. At that time he was the leader of Lithuania, that’s a fact. It was in my eyes. In my opinion, at that time not He was only the leader of the Lithuanian liberation movement, as a former leader of the movement, but also the de facto leader of Lithuania.
That’s my opinion. I am not preparing another document at this time and, to my knowledge, none of us at the Seimas are preparing such a document. It is not in any future plans.
In my opinion, this man is old enough, sick enough. If it were evaluated in this way in the future, it would not see any harm for Lithuania and the evaluation of Lithuanian history as it was at that time, ”said E. Zingeris.
The initiator of the resolution said that it is very good that people are discussing it, because with the proximity of January 13 it will activate the historical memory of society.
E. Zinger believes that the resolution “On the 30th anniversary of Defenders of Freedom Day” should be debated in the Seimas next Tuesday. He says it would be strange if the Seimas rejected it and did not honor the victims of January 13 and historical memory.
Although the Seimas resolution is not a normative legal act, politicians often use it to express the opinions of Seimas members on one or another issue of public importance, thus emphasizing its importance.
Not everyone likes
E. Zinger’s Defenders of Freedom draft immediately received negative reactions.
Ramūnas Karbauskis, a former member of the Seimas and president of the Lithuanian Peasants and Greens Union, describes the resolution on social media as a simple attempt to make V. Landsbergis a head of state, although he was never elected president.
It is forgotten that the Constitutional Court has stated clearly and unequivocally that “according to the Constitution, the legislator is not authorized to establish such legal regulation that denies the legal personality of the President of the Republic and the legal conditions to equal any other person. To the President of the Republic, the Head of State ”.
I have no doubt that such a decision by the rulers on January 13, which is important to all of us, will sink not only into the privatized oblivion of the conservatives at sea, but also into attempts to make Landsberg’s dream come true. and raise the self-esteem of conservatives above all, privatizing the concept of patriots and freedom fighters. The men and women who barricaded themselves in the palace, who surrounded the most important objects of the state with their hands and hearts, remembered and thanked them, without dividing them by political opinions ”, writes R. Karbauskis.
Similar considerations have taken place in the past
The granting of head of state status to V. Landsbergis has been discussed above. The last time the proposal was presented was in 2017, but the Seimas did not achieve such a project.
Almost four years ago, the idea was raised by the former president of the Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis, and it was also supported by the then Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis.
January 13 this year, vacations were also offered earlier. The conservatives Laurynas Kasčiūnas and Dainius Kreivys registered the project to declare it a day of unemployment by including it in the Labor Code; later, Algimantas Dumbrava, a member of the Lithuanian Peasants and Greens Union faction, and Dalia Asanavičiūtė, a member of the Lithuanian Homeland Christian Democrats Union, made a similar proposal.
The government has welcomed the proposal to declare January 13 as a non-working day.
On January 13, the victims of January 13, 1991, were honored during the actions of the Soviet army in Vilnius.
Then the Soviets attempted to overthrow the legitimate government of Lithuania, which declared the country’s independence from the USSR on March 11, 1990 by military force. 14 people were killed when Soviet troops stormed the Vilnius television tower and the Radio and Television Committee building.
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