In the Constitution, the “peasant” deduced the absence of a prohibition to prevent the movement for Lithuania.

Member of the Green Union of Peasants of Lithuania, former candidate for parliament Renata Venslovienė shared on her Facebook account her doubts about the ban on traveling from one municipal territory to another, which has been applied in Lithuania for more than a month, without good reason, and added several extracts from the Constitution.

“I don’t know how he is doing, but it seems to me that it is time to pose the question aloud, on what basis is our movement between municipalities restricted? Is it legal? “- she rhetorically asked, and immediately responded that it was “illegal, as it is only possible after a state of emergency has been declared.”

Hundreds shared

Calvary member of the municipal council R.Venslovienė was also outraged that large supermarkets can function and small businesses have to close.

“It just came to our knowledge then maximose? What is higher in Lithuania, the orders or the Constitution? ”He asked and called to share the record.

He doesn’t seem to win support for his ideas not only during the elections (he went from 99 seats to 48 on the party’s candidate list last year) – some 700 people shared the record in just over a day.

Commentators are outraged by the ban on moving between municipalities and other restrictions on quarantine, considering that “this is how” as many people as possible get vaccinated “(R.Venslovienė agreed:” Well everyone, tired, psychologically broken, do anything to improve ”) Or to raise as much money as possible to punish offenders.

According to one commenter, this should be referred to the Constitutional Court:

“Article 32 establishes that the law can prohibit a citizen from circulating if necessary to protect human health. Sharing FB will not work. The Constitutional Court can say if there are reasons to believe that the Constitution has been violated.”

Probably the only commenter noted the exact wording of the Constitution.

Article 32 states that “A citizen can move freely and choose a place of residence in Lithuania, he can leave Lithuania freely. These rights cannot be restricted except by law and if necessary for the protection of national security, human health or the administration of justice. “

According to this commentator, “just as it is obvious that even during this period it is not prohibited, after all, nobody is prohibited from moving to another municipality or wherever they want.”

After all, nobody has prohibited you from moving to another municipality or wherever you want.

Another participant responded by asking, “Why do you punish yourself if people do it?”

It was explained: “For violations of the quarantine conditions. Moving means changing the place of residence (with the corresponding rights and obligations, such as the obligation to declare the place of residence) and choosing it voluntarily. Nobility does not mean a basic movement between municipalities, it is, unfortunately, with regret, and it is prohibited, with some reservations ”.

“The trends are positive, but the situation is not good yet”

As is known, the new government, which met in mid-December for its first meeting, restricted the exit of people outside the municipality of their place of residence.

Be sure does not apply due to the death of close relatives or necessary medical assistance, to the place of work or the object of real estate that belongs to him.

Was allowed last week “Social bubbles” – communicate with two families who must completely abandon contact with other people.

The Government of Lithuania did not invent similar restrictions.

For example, in Italy extremely strict restrictions on movement throughout the country were in place in the spring, and were reapplied in the fall when the epidemiological situation deteriorated again.

According to the government, statistics on new COVID-19 cases show that “the current package of quarantine measures is working very effectively – the acceleration of the pandemic has been between -25% for the entire (last) week. and -30%, that is, both the number of cases per day and the percentage of positive tests per week the average decreased at least 25-30% compared to the previous week. “

From January 11 to 17, most pandemic indicators improved, including the number of cases per day, the proportion of positive studies, the number of symptomatic people who contacted the mobile points, hospital occupancy and the number of deaths from COVID-19.

During the week, the 14-day morbidity rate in Lithuania decreased from 1,040 to 747 new cases per 100,000. population. The average number of new cases in 7 days is 1,078 (a week earlier, 1,780). The proportion of positive tests decreased from 14.5 percent. up to 11.1 percent.

Kiti show calculationsthat the number of new COVID-19 cases has decreased compared to the peak of the second wave of COVID-19 (the 7-day average decreased from 3,065 to 935) and the number of weekly deaths (from 322 to 186), the situation of health institutions are improving (COVID-19 maximum, the number of patients in hospitals decreased from 2,571 to 1,689).

Most first-priority people have already been vaccinated: the COVID-19 immunity level of personal health workers currently exceeds 80% on average, and that of nursing and care institutions, 70%.

“Although the improvement trends are positive, the situation is not good yet. (…) We are now in a phase of exponential decline and, maintaining current trends for 5-6 weeks, the situation should return to the way it was before the second wave of the pandemic will begin in October ”.

Gathered under the government the Council of Sanitary Experts proposes the continuation of quarantine measuresuntil the number of new cases is less than 200 per week and the proportion of positive tests does not exceed 5%.

The biggest challenges now are the spread of new strains of the virus in neighboring European countries; an effective outbreak containment, testing, tracking and management system has not yet been established to ensure safe exit from quarantine; And due to the disruption of vaccine supplies, vaccination and resistance to COVID-19 will increase more slowly than planned.

Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė according to, the government could make decisions on lifting some quarantine restrictions in mid-February.

The government’s emergency commission proposed on Monday to extend the quarantine until February 28.

Small businesses are not prohibited from operating

Although R.Venslovienė was outraged that small businesses had to close due to quarantine, although large shopping centers can operate. This is not true.

Most of the stores had to close.

However, businesses whose main activity is the sale of food, medicine, optical items and orthopedic technical devices, funeral items, animal feed, veterinary items are allowed.

Online sales or delivery / collection of goods at collection points are also allowed.

Several small companies, which had not been active on the Internet before, rushed to create websites and virtual stores during the spring quarantine and not only to sell various products, but also to offer services.

R. Venslovienė almost echoed the leader of the “peasants” Ramūnas Karbauskis criticism of the current government – He did not propose new quarantine measures, and some of them were too strict.

It is said that restrictions on movement between municipalities are only necessary on public holidays.

R. Karbauskis called this nonsense, because residents cannot go into nature and flock to cities.

In addition, according to the politician, there was no need to restrict the activity of small businesses, because now people stay to go to large ones, and they have a large population.

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