Martynas Levickis, who wanted to vote in isolation, feels robbed: they have disgustingly taken away my civil rights

M. Levickis often delights not only Lithuanians but also foreigners with his music. The accordionist, who recently had a concert in Poland, had to isolate himself when he returned home. Realizing that he will not be able to physically go to the polls in the Seimas elections, M. Levickis states that the CEC has completed a special request for citizens who remain in self-isolation but wish to exercise their functions as voters. Unfortunately, even after expressing his desire to vote, the musician remained bitten: he did not receive members of the electoral commission.

An unpleasant situation in which M. Levickis felt as if he had been robbed, the musician shared on the artist’s official Facebook page.

“Achtung, Achtung. I’ve been robbed! He said. “Or civil law, duty, and the elephant.”

“This week, after a 7 month hiatus, I had the opportunity to play for a foreign audience. 7 months of silence on stage outside of Lithuania is already unusual for me. Anyway, most of my career has been spent abroad. So this concert trip abroad was an important event for me. Close stranger, neighbor. I participated in a festival in Poland. Even before I left, I knew there was a great chance that I would find myself isolated when I returned. And today is your third day. It is also an election day that I will not attend.

Realizing that on Sunday, due to current restrictions, I could lose my right to vote, on Wednesday I applied to the CEC with a request to vote at home for self-isolation. The request was received and was all the information received from the CEC. Nothing else. Last night I realized that civic duty and right had taken over and evaporated. That civic duty and that right that pressured me from within, when I was tortured watching the party debate, realizing that I have no one to vote for this year, because some do not believe, the second is desperate and the third does not correspond to my beliefs. . What is more disgusting is that, looking at the last debate, I was not so convinced why I could afford to vote anyway; Let’s just say I smoothly built my pick on behalf of that position. And it’s in vain because nobody cares. What other welfare state, what other human rights and what other mutual respect are great things. The stew is diluted from the sweat spilled by the street sweeper that he himself had just swept (this is not a literary testimony, but factual) about the disability of the CCA. And whoever is between these two randomly selected subjects, they can all complete for themselves. It is a pity that even after 30 years of state-building, as the English say, we are not seen in the ivory room. Instead, we claim to have some kind of prosperity. Well-being begins with respecting oneself and the other, well, and the elephant in the room, ”said the musician.

After the recording of M. Levickis on Facebook, the stories of other people overflowed, who may also find themselves in a similar situation when they could not cast their vote. The story of a well-known public figure has received more than a thousand reactions.

The CEC is committed to investigating these cases in detail

On Sunday morning, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) promised to clarify all reports of people in self-isolation without reaching the members of the electoral commission, but assured that they could have been isolated cases rather than a systemic loophole.

CEC media representative Indrė Ramanavičien told BNS that six such reports have been received so far, all of which will be investigated in detail.

According to the representative of the CEC, this year the workload of election organizers visiting citizens at home has increased significantly, as almost a quarter more people registered to vote at home than during the Seimas elections in 2016.

“This year, 22 percent registered to vote at home. More voters than four years ago in 2016. This year, 106 thousand people have the right to vote at home. 842 people, four years ago we had 87 thousand citizens. 433” , – declared a representative of the electoral commission to BNS.

“The burden on election commissions walking home and organizing voting at home has increased and there may have been some isolated cases where election commissions have not visited,” he said.

“It just came to our attention then. We currently have six appeals from people who wanted to vote in isolation and who have not come. We will clarify if there are more cases and explain each case specifically,” said I. Ramanavičienė.

On Saturday there were reports that several people in self-isolation due to the coronavirus had not reached the members of the electoral commission.