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An unusual image before the elections was intended to remind them of uncomfortable problems
Seimas member Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius says that during his election campaign, with his flamboyant feminine image, he sought to draw public attention to the problems that the LGBT community has been facing for thirty years:
“People have a lot of stereotypes about the LGBT community, gay men. We just wanted to take the stereotype that people have in mind and turn it into reality, thus showing that it is an outright joke, people are not.”
TV Raskevičius, who was elected to the Seimas, also attended the pre-election debate in his very distinctive costumes. There, says the interlocutor, this step forced his opponents to get lost, because they did not expect to hear from TV Raskevičius topics relevant to much of society, even when his image does not meet existing standards:
“There are certain rules of the game, that is, middle-aged men in their fifties in shoddy gray suits are arguing about politics there.”
Wants a change in the education system: diversity must be accepted as an asset, not a disadvantage
TV Raskevičius, who became chairman of the Seimas Human Rights Committee after the elections, says that he has set priorities in this activity, one of which is education and training:
“When it comes to human rights issues, the answer is always to start with education, the younger generation. Maybe we will stop promising and start working to make the curriculum a fundamental principle that diversity is an asset, not a disadvantage, in our society. “
According to TV Raskevičius, when it comes to guaranteeing the rights of different groups in society, parents often ask how to explain all this to their children: “The problem is not that children ask. They ask many and varied questions. The problem is that parents cannot explain it. I would only suggest being interested, discussing and transmitting certain values and principles to the little ones.
Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius
According to TV Raskevičius, there should be room for decision-making for all groups in society. In addition, the position of women, according to politicians, is still insufficient today:
“In Lithuania, women are more educated than men: more women with doctorates in science and masters, but for some reason in politics, decision-making processes, the highest business standards, significantly fewer women.”
Improve Government Communication on Covid – 19
When evaluating the work of this government, says TV Raskevičius, it is necessary to take into account the fact that the new government has started working on a pandemic:
However, when it comes to attempts by politicians of this term to manage the Covid-19 pandemic, TV Raskevičius says that communication must be improved so that decisions are explained to the public in a simple and understandable way. In addition, the politician considers it necessary to talk about softening the quarantine conditions for those who have been vaccinated or have had Covid – 19:
“There is a promise to give a vaccine to all the people who want it, so we must start offering vaccinated or immune people the opportunity to gradually return to a normal life now, because we can no longer be all closed, people she’s just tired. “
Passport of opportunity: What are the benefits for those who get vaccinated?
Frequent skepticism about vaccination is bothered by the increasing use of the term “vaccine passport.” In this place, says TV Raskevičius, there should be no confusion and the term “passport of opportunity” would be more appropriate:
“We have vaccinated more than 400 thousand people with the first dose. people who received the second dose of almost 200 thousand. people. That means doing something with these people, telling them how they can gradually return to a normal life. I think that a vaccine or a passport of opportunity is a very good strategy ”.
According to the politician, a vaccination passport could provide access to non-essential services for people who have been vaccinated or have contracted the disease, p. Eg to visit restaurants, mass events, etc. A similar passport, according to a spokesman for the Freedom Party, was legalized by Denmark a few days ago.
A politician raising a child with two more women: there will be no attempts to legalize the marriage yet
“My son grows up in a family of two women. They wanted to have children and they made me that offer. The main reason I accepted this offer was that the women were not only looking for a donor, they were looking for a father and I actively participate in the child’s life, I participate in his care and upbringing.
Although, according to the interlocutor, an agreement where a homosexual couple asks for gametes in the third person and has children is not prohibited by law, there is no social example of how these non-traditional families work:
“Not only are we three parents involved in the life of our son, but the child also has many grandparents and many relatives. They all need to discover themselves in that situation, but so far everything is going very well,” says a member of the Seimas who is raising a one-and-a-half-year-old son with a pair of homosexual women.
Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius
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In Lithuania, according to the politician, the institute of the association is necessary mainly because same-sex couples currently have no opportunity to regulate their coexistence and the rights and obligations that derive from it. Furthermore, the association is not only relevant for homosexuals:
“And heterosexual couples, for one reason or another, sometimes have a coexistence that has no legal guarantees. For example, one in four newborns in Lithuania is born out of wedlock ”. For those couples, says TV Raskevičius, the institute of association could be an additional legal instrument.
Meanwhile, there will be no attempts to legalize same-sex marriage, says TV Raskevičius, in current policy, as this would require changes to the provisions enshrined in the Constitution, which would require a majority of at least 94 members of the Seimas.
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