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The amendments to the law were tabled by the chair of the Agnė Širinskienė Law and Order Committee of the Seimas court on Tuesday. She proposed allowing the deferral of mandatory initial military service for those whose family members are waiting or on maternity leave, as well as raising two or more children under the age of three.
Military service can now be postponed once for a single study period for high school students, and people between the ages of 19 and 26 will be recruited from the pool of untrained military personnel.
The MP proposed to reduce this limit from 19 to 24 years, as well as allowing students to postpone the service an unlimited number of times.
“I would like to propose that the list of reasons for exemption from compulsory military service be expanded to include people whose family members are awaiting maternity leave, as well as people raising two or more children under the age of three.
The Ministry of National Defense had to be consulted on this matter, and receives such requests every year and generally for those people. [prašymus] it satisfies, but on the basis of another point, that is, disproportionately great harm to personal interests, ”taught A. Širinskienė.
“It is also offered to those students who are returning to study for a second master, bachelor, second doctorate (possibly less frequently already), as well as the opportunity to postpone their service in the military for that period of study, while rejuvenating 24 26, as prior The drafting of the law also spoke of 24 years as the final age of recruitment before which [tarnyba] It can be postponed, “explained the politician.
Sigismund Gedvila / 15min photo / Agnė Širinskienė
A young man of nineteen who started his four-year bachelor’s degree and then a two-year master’s degree would lose his military service if the amendments were adopted. Social Democrat Julius Sabatauskas spoke about this during the Seimas session, asking if there would be a shortage of recruits.
“By reducing the age of recruits, who can be called even after the postponement, in practice we will include not only undergraduate students, but also master students, as they are 24 years old. At the end of the master’s studies [tarnauti] It will no longer be necessary But the question is whether there will be a shortage [šauktinių]Because even now the number of volunteers who come to perform the service is decreasing every year, it is increasingly necessary to invite them to come voluntarily, “said the politician.
A.Širinskienė replied that previously the age limit of 24 and 21 years was valid, up to which recruits were suspended for compulsory initial military service. Then, according to her, there was no shortage of people serving in the military.
Returning, at least in part, to 24 years of age should not cause more significant harm.
“It just came to our attention then. I think that the equalization or a return, at least in part to 24 years, should not cause more serious damage, even more according to the law and now there is a rule that after the conditions expire, a year, but not more than 26. Well, very often a person has a situation, when the conditions expire after two years or similar, and naturally do not enter that period, “taught the member of Seimas.
The amendments will be further examined by the National Security and Defense Committee, and an opinion from the Government is requested.
On Tuesday, Povilas Urbšys, a representative of a group of members of the Mixed Seimas, proposed further reducing the age range from 19 to 21 years, which could be requested from the reserve of untrained military personnel for permanent mandatory initial military service. The Seimas did not approve said amendment by majority vote.
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