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“It is a pity that the Seimas does not address the long-standing problems faced by thousands of people. They still cannot write their name in Latin characters on the documents. It involves both representatives of ethnic communities living in Lithuania and people married to foreigners ”, the report cites Gintautas Paluckas, one of the authors of the project, as president of the Social Democratic Party.
Photo by Luke April / 15 minutes / Gintautas Paluckas
According to him, the philological or technical problem has acquired a political and even international sound.
“It is a pity that the Seimas does not find the will to solve this, that there are still all kinds of reasons to explain what would be wrong if the passport of George Bush or Adam Mickiewicz were written in the original. Therefore, the courts will continue to be overwhelmed. with the cases, ”he said.
The bill was registered on Monday by members of the social democratic faction Gintautas Paluckas, Algirdas Sysas, Julius Sabatauskas, Linas Jonauskas, Orinta Leiputė and Tomas Bičiūnas.
In the documents for writing names and surnames, the bill provided that, at the request of a Lithuanian citizen belonging to a national minority, his or her name and surname will be written in Latin characters and in accordance with the rules of the minority language. respective national. The same procedure would apply to the spouse and children of said person.
The surnames of foreigners, according to the project, written in Latin characters in the source of the document, would be literally noted on the identity documents.
It is disappointing that the Seimas does not find the will to resolve this.
Personal names registered in non-Latin characters in the source of the document would be transcribed (transliterated) into Lithuanian identity documents in accordance with the standards approved by the Government.
The first and last name of a person who requests it can be written in Lithuanian characters or in Lithuanian form.
The debate on the legalization of the original spelling of personal names in documents has been going on in Lithuania for several decades, and bills have been submitted to Parliament more than once, but there were not enough votes to pass them.
Until now, foreigners and their spouses who want original names on passports and identity cards must defend this position in court at all times, and the courts have so far made decisions in their favor.
The new center-right coalition also promised in its treaty to pass amendments to the law, legalizing the spelling of personal names on the front page of documents in all letters of the Latin alphabet.
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