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In 2012-2014, V. Mazuronis served as Minister for the Environment while working in the Government of Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius. Then, according to him, there was no shortage of pressure on the part of the hunters to accept the amendments that were useful to them. Acting K.Mažeika succumbed to that pressure, according to the politician.
“The same pressure, not a big secret here, has been exerted on all ministers. During my stay, there was the Hunting Law on the creation of hunting and hunting areas with silent devices, reflectors. That pressure is constant, but this minister is affected or surrenders much more than the minister should. This is worrying. ” 15 minutes V. Mazuronis commented.
The pressure is constant.
It is not bad for hunters, an influential interest group in Lithuania, to defend their interests, the politicians said, adding that they see nothing wrong when business and political leaders spend their free time with hunters.
“But it is bad that high government officials, in this case, the Minister of the Environment, are beginning to serve them recklessly,” Mazuronis said.
According to the politician, K. Mazeika, who passed the hunting rules out the back door “without further discussion with the public,” “showed his loyalty to one of the groups.” This, taking into account that K.Mažeika and the hunter himself, is incompatible with the duties of the Minister.
“The Prime Minister and the entire team should be asked to abandon the Prime Minister,” Mazuronis said.
And the validity of the updated hunting rules, he said, should be revoked.
A.Salamakin: error that the decision was made without the Seimas
A. Salamakinas, who has worked at Seimas for several periods, chaired the Environmental Protection Committee in 2012-2016. The hunter, Environment Minister K. Mažeika, was convinced that he was looking pragmatically at his duties.
Photo by Lukas Balandi / 15min / Kęstutis Mažeika
“The term is coming to an end, the chances of being elected are small, well, you need to take care of your own affairs. This is the order of the young generation that has come to politics,” said A. Salamakinas, who now He works in the opposition faction of the Social Democrats in the Seimas.
If he was looking for changes in the hunting order, K.Mažeika, according to A.Salamakinas, had to first present the ideas in the Seimas.
“If you want to do something, you must first go through the Seimas and change the Hunting Law, and not to deceive. Transparently, the discussions in the Seimas will not be compatible. The Seimas will not be compatible. And you have to take personal responsibility, because this is not the first time that he looks ugly as a minister, “said the MP.
You must take personal responsibility.
He himself recalled how, as chairman of the committee, he had received requests for help from the hunters, but then his deliberations were transparent.
“It just caught our eye then. I am not a hunter, but personally and the committee members had a strong request and desire to present nightly sights. There was both discussion and deliberation. At the time, swine fever was widespread and the Veterinary Service somehow asked to start a fight against wild boars because their population was very large. And they asked us to present night views […] But the Seimas did not agree, rejected this.
We did everything in a transparent way, discussions, presentations at the Seimas, the Seimas did not approve it and ended with that, “taught A. Salamakinas.
K.Mažeika, who legalized hunting bows since 2022, explained that the goal was to ban them, that after the new wording of the Arms and Ammunition Control Act was adopted, bows were removed from the law as prohibited tools , so there was an obstacle to use them in hunting.
Scanpix / ITAR-TASS photo / Hunting
A.Salamakin called this interpretation evasive: “After all, the law does not register a” Kalashnikov “machine gun, it does not register light cannons. It is not now that the hunter will go to the forest and say that they are not registered, can I go hunting With them? Those evasions look silly. They gave much more inconvenience than they would have said directly. “
The updated hunting rules were approved by order of Minister K. Mažeika on May 8. Following the dissatisfaction of politicians and non-governmental organizations, the minister later revoked the clause of the order, which would legalize hunting with bows and daggers starting in 2022.
K.Mažeika stated that the new version of the hunting rules was adopted by the Hunting Advisory Council, headed by Deputy Minister for the Environment Rasa Vaitkevičiūtė. However, the council members denied this: that there was no discussion for some time.
The Prime Minister expressed his disapproval of K. Mažeika’s decision to legalize archery, but expressed his confidence in him and asked the Minister to evaluate the actions of his team.
K.Mažeika assured that the decision on the future of R.Vaitkevičiūtė while holding this position will be taken after the meeting of the expanded Hunting Council, which will take place next week. During the meeting, it is promised to discuss the hunting rules adopted. The minister said he had no intention of resigning.
K.Mažeika belongs to the hunting club “Karkliniai” that operates in the Vilkaviškis district. It is true, the president of the club Leonardas Gvazdaitis 15 minutes He declared that the politician does not hunt for about a year.
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