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The Board emphasizes that the party’s representative, TV Raskevičius, has been experiencing a “great flow of hatred” for several weeks due to the planned presentation of the Association Law at the spring session of the Seimas.
“The Freedom Party was established to respect everyone and their freedoms in Lithuania. Therefore, we strongly support Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius, who raises long-standing topical human rights problems and makes suggestions for their solution.” From experience sincere intentions and competencies, “the board said in a statement.
The initiators of the elimination of TV Raskevičius, which does not hide homosexual opinions, from the chairmen of the committee claim to have raised 300 thousand. signatures and handed them over to Seimas president Viktorija Čmilyte-Nielsen last week.
The initiators of the campaign claim that they are demanding the removal of TV Raskevičius because a part of society is outraged by the bills presented by him. According to them, TV Raskevičius also confuses public and private interests, because it represents the “rights of a small group of society” without taking into account the opinion of the majority.
V. Čmilytė-Nielsen stated that neither she nor the Seimas Board can remove a parliamentarian from the position of head of the commission, which must only be a decision of the parliamentarian himself and the faction that delegated him.
The Board of the Freedom Party affirms that human rights are “inherent, inalienable and indivisible” and that its guarantee “does not in any way restrict the rights and freedoms of others to all groups in society.”
“Together, we are sending a message of support to all those who feel discriminated against or intimidating themselves and promise to continue working to ensure respect for all and human rights,” the statement said.
Aušrinė Armonaitė, the president of the party, says she considers the demands of the public to be persecution due to sexual orientation and political opinions.
“The Board of the Freedom Party not only supports Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius and his work in the Human Rights Committee. But it also sends support to all. Who experience violence, hatred, persecution for their opinions, for their appearance, for their orientation sexual ”, says A. Armonaitė.
TV Raskevičius himself says that he did not believe that the “front of hatred” would suddenly open up and calls for the choice of “peace instead of war”.
“I really want to invite everyone to choose peace. I get a lot of support. We cannot even imagine how many people this mission is very important,” said TV Raskevičius.
He had previously stated that he had no intention of resigning.
The chairmen of the Seimas committees are appointed and removed by the Seimas.
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