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For her part, the Interior Minister, Agnė Bilotaitė, points out that no quarantine requirements were observed at Saturday’s rally, so police officers are collecting information, analyzing it and violators will be held accountable for their actions.
I. Šimonytė does not intend to meet the requirements
Arvydas Daunys, one of the organizers of the “Great March for the Defense of the Family,” announced on Thursday that if the rulers did not comply with their demands expressed at the rally, a three-day warning rally would be organized on June 15, promising to present “next steps”.
The rally was planned in advance, after announcing the demands from the stage of the “Family Defense March” in Vingis Park. It has been said that if the government does not respond to our announced demands, we will take action. Depending on how they react, we will react. One of those reactions will be that rally, it will be a warning, “said one of the rally organizers.
Meanwhile, the prime minister said on Thursday that he saw no reason to implement the demands made at the rally.
“Requirements as requirements. Your right to make claims, and already the right of decision-makers to comply or not with those claims. What did they tell me to do there? I really don’t see any reason to remove three ministers until June 1, “reacted I. Šimonytė to the demands of the rally organizers.
Among the demands of the organizers was a call not to present the Validation Project of the Association to the Seimas, not to discuss the Istanbul Convention, not to test children and to open all schools for contact education.
A.Bilotaitė: Infractions must be held accountable
Interior Minister A.Bilotaitė also received questions on Thursday at the Seimas about non-compliance with quarantine requirements during the event, with only a few people in the crowd wearing protective masks, although a safety distance was not maintained.
“There were two events. One was called the MAMA Awards, in which certain procedures were violated and those people were punished. And we saw a powerful rally in Vingis Park on Saturday, where the rules were not followed at all and there were not 18 people who did not follow them, there, as the organizers themselves say, about 20 thousand. did not comply.
What will happen this time, the Ministry of the Interior and the police will take the same measures as for the participants of the MAMA festival? ”- asked the Social Democrat Algirdas Sysas to the ministers during the Government Hour in the Seimas.
A.Bilotaitė agreed that the quarantine requirements were not observed at the rally, so these days the police collect and analyze information on violations.
“The event that occurred on Saturday shows that the quarantine restrictions and requirements were not met. To the best of my knowledge and belief, material is currently being compiled for analysis. If it is raised that there have been some indications of wrongdoing and those individuals have been identified, I believe that decisions will be made and those individuals will be held accountable for their actions, ”he said.
The minister emphasized that the permit for the demonstration had been issued by the Vilnius city municipality, which had to assess the risks before that. “It just came to our knowledge then. We take a position such that responsibility should be the same for everyone and double standards cannot be applied,” said A.Bilotaitė.
The “Great March for the Defense of the Family” took place on May 15, when some 10,000 people from various corners of the country gathered in the Vingis Park in the capital. people seeking to protest against the Istanbul Convention and other initiatives that they say are directed against the traditional family.
In response to this, several campaigns were carried out in the capital at a similar time against this march.
