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On Thursday afternoon, when residents of the district said goodbye to a child killed in a traffic accident, a political advertisement appeared on the street where mourning candles were lit.
A stand mounted on a tree proclaimed: “Driver, forgive the gas! Thank you. “Signed by Evaldas Jurkevičius. In 2008-2012, he was already elected as a member of the Seimas in the Baltic single-member constituency. At that time, he was a member of the Conservative Party. He is now running for election with the Christian Union. His candidacy is running He raised in the same single-member Baltic constituency, where he also managed to win in 2008. Before those Seimas elections, E. Jurkevičius was known as an active defender of the rights of the residents of the Smeltė neighborhood who were fighting against the port companies.
Photo by Aurelija Jašinskienė / 15min.lt / The scene of the accident is marked by candles, flowers and a teddy bear.
The advertising booth of E.Jurkevičius, which appeared in Slengiai on Thursday, significantly enraged the locals. People have openly expressed their anger that politicians are showing cynicism and “don’t advertise in time and place.” “Do you think about how parents must feel when they walk through this place and see how some politician is pulling a disaster announcement?” Locals asked rhetorically.
People were outraged not only by the ad itself, its place, but also by the way it was attached, with screws, to the tree. Environmentalists should be consulted in this regard.
The politician himself, interviewed 15 minutes The journalists, on Friday morning, still did not know that their commercials had disappeared. He assured that “it coincided so much” that the advertisement appeared on the day of the funeral. The politician explained that the announcement was made in 2016. Since that year, he has dealt with road safety both in his residential area and in Slengiai.
“There are six lying policemen on Smeltaitė street, where the accident happened. However, they don’t stop either, the pilots fly, go ahead and just jump that hill. I know I’ve seen it many times. I’m often here. That’s why I built the poster proactively. Not to fly. In rabbits, in general, the signal “70”, everything flies even faster. I didn’t know anything about that funeral. I came, I saw candles, a teddy bear. Too bad everyone and that driver. If I were the mayor of the district, the chamber would be here the next day, “said the politician. He recalled that the residents of the Slengiai district do not even belong to the single-member constituency in which he was nominated. politician also stressed that he himself crossed out his name on the poster, thus pointing out that “it was not advertising.”
Due to the incident in which his poster was removed, the politician promises to contact the police officers.
“It just came to our attention then. After all, it was lost. That has to be answered,” he said.
Laura Matjošaitytė, president of the Central Election Commission, sees a violation of the Seimas Elections Law. The law prohibits advertising in the sanitary road safety zone.
“This information will be passed on to the electoral commission of the constituency for its investigation and evaluation. A fine is threatened for such violation, ”said L. Matjošaitytė.
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