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This is how the developer responded to the messagethat the Vytis monument on Lukiškės square in Vilnius should be erected in 2026, and the Vilnius city municipality put forward such a proposal.
“The situation is the same now as before, I don’t know anything”
15 minutes wrote that last fall, the Lithuanian Court of Appeal announced that the monument of sculptor A.Labašauskas “Freedom Hill” had rightly won the Lukiškės Square memorial competition. The Ministry of Culture has stated that it will familiarize itself in detail with the ruling of the Lithuanian Court of Appeal in the near future.
“In the near future, the Ministry of Culture will get acquainted in detail with the decision of the Lithuanian Court of Appeal regarding the Lukiškės Square commemorative competition and will decide the conditions under which the project can and can be implemented, taking into account the current conditions provisions of the law of Lukiškės square.
The Ministry and other responsible institutions will also participate in the coordination of the plan of measures envisaged in the Lukiškės Square Loan Agreement signed between the Vilnius City Municipality and the National Land Service, implementing the provisions of the Square Law. Lukišk wass ”, it was stated in the fall. .
“The situation is the same now as always, I don’t know anything. The courts have ended, the Lithuanian Supreme Court has rejected the cassation appeal and the decision is no longer subject to appeal. The best idea won, the creative workshops were legitimate and valid.That is the final decision.
It has been communicated – as both the Minister of Culture and S. Skvernelis said – that if the judicial decision is positive, then the budget will be allocated. ” 15 minutes said the artist.
A.Labašauskas says that he does not know if someone found out about the court decision or read it. In theory, the funds should have been allocated at the end of the courts: “And in practice, the institutions that have boiled all this mush seem to ignore the decisions of the courts and are in no rush to read or implement them. They make other decisions that are not understood by common sense ”.
“There are absurdities and there is no political will to stop them.”
Speaking about the Lukiškės square law and the fact that it can prevent the winning monument, A.Labašauskas stated that the law was first proposed a few years ago, but the Seimas Legal Department stated in its conclusions that it is possible to specify from what shape to build a monument) square, is unconstitutional and restricts creative freedom.
“It just came to our notice then. I think the Constitutional Court will one day overturn that law because the Seimas passed a possibly unconstitutional law. And the president signed it, knowing the Legal Department’s conclusions that this is a bad law. That shouldn’t be. be the case. She gave birth to the law outside the law and now, based on it, the train is still running and everything is fine.
Absurd things are happening and there is no political will to stop them. How can both the Seimas and the President behave so irresponsibly when talking about the fact that young people should be empowered in Lithuania and feel free? They promise to guarantee it. And then I sign a law that restricts my creative freedom and that of other creators. Once again, they speak the same way and do the opposite, ”said A. Labašauskas.
The artist himself says he reacted and voiced his opinion after hearing that the Vytis Memorial should be built on Lukiškės square by 2026.
“It just came to our attention then. Until now, I myself have not approached any institution, and I have realized that such a situation exists now and that Lukiškės square is probably not the most important issue. I deliberately do not do this: the situation will calm down and maybe I will return to the subject. I will not bother, I will let the new government deal with the problems that are important. This is my civic position, “said A. Labašauskas.
Ministry of Culture: It will be necessary to find a legal solution
15 minutes He approached the Ministry of Culture and asked him to explain the situation regarding Lukiškės Square.
“Current court decisions state that the creative workshop on the monument in Lukiškės square was won by the artist Andrius Labašauskas’ project” Freedom Hill. “However, the law stipulates that there must be a monument to Vytis with a memorial.
Therefore, the Vilnius City Municipality, which was awarded a state land use agreement on Lukiškės Square, was forced to prepare a plan of measures on the implementation of the functions of Lukiškės Square, its commemorative accents and the principles of use and management.
The action plan drawn up by the Vilnius municipality provides for the formation of an inter-institutional working group made up of central government institutions and representatives of the municipality.
The main task of this working group will be to assess how and by what means the subsequent management of Lukiškės square will have to be organized, as well as to find a legal solution to the previous situation ”, says Agnė Grinevičiūtė, Advisor to the Ministry of Culture.
Žygimantas Gedvila / 15min photo / The law in Lukiškės square is being discussed as a family
Vilnius city municipality wants to offer to consider “resetting” the situation
Tomas Gulbinas, deputy mayor of the Vilnius city municipality, says that by precisely implementing the 2020 law on Lukiškės square, the municipality proposed to the ministries to form a working group of representatives of the central authorities and the municipality. It should be completed in May.
Its main task is to evaluate the ways and means of organizing the management of Lukiškės Square in order to ensure its compliance with the fulfillment of the commemorative function of Lithuanian freedom fighters, the struggle for Lithuanian independence and memory. of the fallen fighters, 1863–1864. reflection of the place of execution of the rebels and to solve the problem of the Vytis monument foreseen by law (the planned territory is the whole square or a part of it; the executor of future workshops / competitions ; the issue of financing is preliminarily resolved).
“Most ministries and other state institutions supported this first step. We hope to receive an official response in the next few days. In answering the question of what solution we see, it is obvious that a monument in the context of such disagreement, no matter what which he represents, can hardly unite the majority of Vilnius residents for a unanimous opinion and not create harmony.
Therefore, the Vilnius City Municipality wants to offer to consider “resetting” the situation. This would mean a general consensus of all institutions that the main part of Lukiškės square will not be changed and no monument will be erected there, at least for the next decade, ”said T. Gulbinas.
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