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People who gather in the park wear Lithuanian tricolor and historical flags, and wear national paraphernalia. From the stage dedicated to the event, music is played, “Lithuania, Lithuania” was chanted. A little later, the participants sang the national anthem.
During the event, the Presidency distributed a greeting from Gitan Nausėda on the occasion of the International Day of the Family. He was also shown at the event.
In his congratulatory statement, the head of state said that same-sex relationships should be regulated, but in accordance with the Constitution. Mr. Nausėda also stated that Lithuania had done very little for the benefit of families.
Vilija, 64, who came to Vilnius from Priekulė, hoped the government would turn to the people and expressed opposition to the Istanbul Convention.
“Our expectation is that people will also look back on that Istanbul Convention, on gender, so that the issue is not considered again in the fall.” The family is the basis of the state, that’s why we came, “the woman told BNS.
Pranas, who came to Vingis Park at the time, said he did not understand why this campaign was being organized.
“I came to see what the audience gathered here. I really don’t understand what they are doing here, but so far everything seems calm, everyone is in a good mood, let’s hope it continues like this, ”said the 21-year-old.
For her part, Olga from Vilnius said that she had come here “to show solidarity with all the others who consider their mother, father and children in the family.”
“With those who want to live freely, think freely, so that norms of thought and parenting are not imposed. And anyway, it is fun that people show solidarity, that something awakens in their heart is beautiful ”, explained the 35-year-old woman.
PHOTO GALLERY. In Vingis Park, people gather: some, to celebrate love, others, against perverts.
Žaneta Kazakevičienė, 35, from Alytus, stated that she was not against homosexuals, but stressed that the family consists of a man and a woman, so that “laws of this type that mention the family fundamentals “.
“We stand for the family, for the state, for a beautiful state and, most importantly, for the Constitution,” he said.
He stressed that homosexuals must “adapt to society, not rebuild it.”
The participants of the event, a column of about three thousand cars, arrived in the capital from Klaipeda and other cities in the country.
As Renatas Požėla, Commissioner General of the Police, said earlier this week, uniformed and formless officers, a cavalry police force and cynologists work in Vingis Park.
According to the Vilnius municipality that issued the permit, up to 7,000 people can participate in the event. people.
Raimondas Grinevičius, a former “orderly man”, is mentioned as the initiator and leader of the march;
“Family can be different”
In response to this fact, three actions against the family march are being carried out in the capital at a similar time. According to data from the Vilnius municipality, two of them can be organized on the pedestrian bridge that leads to Vingis Park, and one, on the White Bridge.
Jokūbas Tvaska, one of the organizers of the White Bridge event, representative of the Fridays For Future environmental movement, told BNS that the family can be different.
“The family should be based on love, mutual respect, we all have differences, but we are worthy of love. And if your concept of family is very narrow and is based only on hatred, our concept of family is very diverse and its focus It is necessarily love and respect, ”said the young man.
According to him, the event takes place in another part of the city because there is no desire for a possible confrontation with the participants of the march. In addition, the place was chosen from another place and symbolically, as representing a different point of view.
Up to a hundred people in total are expected to gather here.
During the event there will be speeches, LGBT + poetry, jokes and the meeting will end with a symbolic funeral.
“We will bury toxic masculinity, homophobia, the ecological crisis and all the other things that we don’t want in Lithuania,” Tvaska said.
Dozens of people gathered for the campaign on the Žvėrynas bridge.
They carried LGBT flags, posters with the words “Love is not a crime”, “Love is love” and called for the ratification of the Istanbul Convention.
The portal tv3.lt described in detail a little before what is behind the organization of the event. Between the organizers, and the people who have repeatedly tried to attack politics and convicted people.
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