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“It was clear from the beginning in our group, and I informed the co-author of the working group on the drafting of the law, that there will be three people in our group who will not support this law. It was helpful for the coalition to know that three of the Liberals would not vote on the need to count the votes.
But a big surprise was the 15 votes from the Homeland Union. 13 of them signed because they disagreed and proposed holding a referendum. Today 15 of them appeared, today another person at the funeral of a loved one, that is, up to 16 conservatives. This seems to be a surprise here, ”said E. Gentvilas on the Lietuvos Rytas television show Nauja Diena.
E. Gentvilas pointed out that he himself reacted sharply and sensitively to such a vote, but there are and will not be divisions in the coalition.
“It just came to our attention then. But let me, as a person, as a liberal, react with sensitivity or anger because we, as a state, do not love our citizens, we do not appreciate their ability to live in that state with sensitivity and dignity. coalitions will not stumble, “said E. Gentvilas.
E. Gentvilas later for the portal lrytas.lt confirmed that he expected the support of conservatives Vytautas Juozapaitis, Dainius Kreivis and Edmundas Pupinis.
The liberal said it was initially thought that the project would not be supported by 10 conservative coalition partners, but the vote revealed that there were 15-16 who did not.
“We imagine that there could be about 10 conservatives who would not support it. Yesterday it turned out that there are 13 of them who voted for the referendum, ”said E. Gentvilas.
Disagreement after submission was returned to the initiators for improvement. However, E. Gentvilas said that he did not expect a miracle that the improved project would receive support.
“Apparently, this is the composition of the Seimas. Unless we exclude same-sex couples, we can expect something,” said E. Gentvilas.
However, even in this case, according to the liberal, the association between a man and a woman may not receive support in the Seimas. “We just realized that the marriage was a family. Only marriage can be lived. I cannot guarantee it, ”said the Liberal.
For her part, Seimas president Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen said she knew that the votes could be roughly distributed, so she said she was not surprised. According to her, although the governors went to the polls after calculating what support they would receive, the results of the vote were determined by only two votes.
“We knew even when we went to this vote that there would be a little difference (…) Of course, we count the votes. However, as I mentioned, and the vote was expected to be very close, that’s what happened. Decided by two votes. Some have changed their minds recently, others may not have found the strength to press the “stop” button, said V. Čmilytė-Nielsen at the Seimas.
The Seimas spokesman also stated that he believed that such a division of labor by the rulers on this issue should not be detrimental.
After the presentation, 63 Seimas members voted in favor of the Association Bill, 58 opposed and seven abstained.
Conservatives Kazys Starkevičius, Laurynas Kasčiūnas, Algis Strelčiūnas, Antanas Čepononis, Arvydas Pocius, Paulius Saudargas, Antanas Matulas, Valdas Rakutis, Edmundas Pupinis, Audronius Ažubalis, Vilija Aleknaitė Abramikienė voted against. Justinas voted against. Conservatives Vytautas Juozapaitis, Dainius Kreivys abstained.
Two liberals, Jonas Varkalys and Juozas Baublys, also voted against. Viktoras Franckietis abstained.
It is true that the rulers also received the support of various peasants. The peasants Tomas Tomilinas, Lukas Savickas, Rūta Miliūtė voted for the project.
Members of the Lithuanian regional factions voted unanimously against the project, as well as some representatives of the Labor Party faction voted against or abstained, five Social Democrats, 21 peasants and two members of the Mixed Seimas group did not support the project.
In case of disagreement after submission, the draft was returned to the initiators for improvement by another vote.
Liberal Movement: We will have to return to the issue of association.
The Liberal Movement announced Tuesday that it intends to return to the initiative and resubmit the bill in the future.
“We presented the project for the first time in 2017, when the support did not reach 30 votes. Now that support is double, but it was still not enough. It is a great pity, but we are not going to give up, we will return to the subject of the association and we will present it again ”, the report quotes a member of the Arminas Lydeka group.
According to the Statute of the Seimas, if the project presented is not approved, it can be presented again after half a year. So, according to liberals, in theory, this could happen as early as the fall session.
“It is unfortunate that people have a very limited understanding of the subject of partnership; it is a law that affects hundreds of thousands of couples, where same-sex couples make up an extremely small proportion. live single, making it impossible to get information about the couple’s medical information, inheritance issues, and a host of other legal issues that the association institute would solve. We feel a commitment to our voters to get the law passed of association during this period, ”said A. Lydeka.
