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“99 percent of its content is very positive and I would really like to transfer it to our legal base, but there are some aspects that everyone is talking about that are worrying,” a Seimas member told Delfi Day.
“This is a convention of violence against women, against people in the immediate environment, against children, all of which really needs to be improved,” she said.
But Saudargas says he’s caught up in gender bias. It is said that the convention speaks of it as a social construction, that people are free to choose it.
“I am very concerned about the introduction of such concepts through the convention. With the adoption of the convention, said legislation becomes superior to ours and you must implement the norms and definitions of the convention in all your laws, ”explained P. Saudargas.
Paulius Saudargas
He said he saw potentially significant consequences for society, the law and the educational system.
“We will have to introduce education for children about gender, the free choice of whether a man or a woman wants to be in school, because the convention clearly states that gender is a socially formed role,” said the vice president of Seimas.
“The convention radically changes attitudes towards what a family is, what gender is,” he emphasized.
Raskevičius: this is a distraction from the real problem
Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius, chairman of the Seimas Human Rights Committee and a member of the Freedom Party, says that discussions of concepts divert attention from real issues.
“The Istanbul Convention provokes a lot of discussions and shifts our attention from solving real problems to superficial discussions, where various opposing parties intimidate and intimidate society,” said T. Raskevičius.
“I would like to speak not about the concepts, but about the real problems facing the Lithuanian people. In my opinion, domestic violence remains an epidemic in our society and it is everyone’s duty to do everything possible to stop it,” he added.
The Seimas member hopes that when the amendments to the Law on Protection against Domestic Violence prepared by the Ministry of Social Security and Labor (SADM) reach the Seimas during the spring session, they will at least have the support of opponents of the Convention. from Istanbul. .
“We see that certain improvements in Lithuania’s legal framework are needed, such as amendments to the Law on Protection against Domestic Violence, which would allow the introduction of the so-called protection order so that people facing domestic violence can be immediately separated from These amendments have already been prepared by the Ministry of Social Affairs and will reach the Seimas in March-April, “said T. Raskevičius.
Speaking about the draft Association Law, which is also currently being discussed, T. Raskevičius also spoke about personal experience.
“My own biological son grows up in a family of two women and I have a unique opportunity to participate in the lives of those people, to observe him very closely. I see how these people care about each other, how they support each other, what the relationship they are in means to them.
I will really fight with all my strength so that these people can live in our country with dignity, because I want my son to grow up in a family environment, and not in an environment regulated by the Joint Agreement ”, said a member of Seimas in the Delfi program Day.
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