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Lithuanian Seimas deputy Petras Grazhulis participated in a video meeting of the Culture Commission. Immediately after the connection, a naked man appeared behind him. The deputy said it was his son.
A naked man appeared behind the back of Lithuanian MP Petras Grazhulis during a meeting of the Seim (Parliament) Committee on Culture. The MPs meeting was streamed live on Seim’s YouTube channel on December 2.
Grazhulis turned on the camera in the 13th minute of the meeting. At that moment, a man naked to the waist appeared behind him and the deputy turned off the camera.
In comments Lithuanian radio station LRT Grazhulis said for the first time that his son appeared on the screen, because he was really at home. The MP later said that Lithuanian journalist Andrius Tapinas was in the frame. A member of the Seimas said that “this journalist is persecuting him.”
The head of the parliamentary commission, Vytautas Juozapaitis, reacted to this and said that the situation when outsiders were present at the meeting was abnormal. According to him, this can affect the decisions that are made.
Each parliamentarian is obliged to ensure that there are no other people in his home, he said. He added that he had not noticed a naked man in the video.
The Seimas member, president of the Freedom and Justice Party, Remigijus emaitaitis, joked about the situation.
“Congratulations to Petras for finally taking this important and meaningful step. I hope the next step is to start a family, possibly in Spain,” he wrote on Facebook on December 2.
Grazhulis is known for his anti-gay statements. In 2013, the Lithuanian Center for Human Rights filed a lawsuit against Grazhulis with the Lithuanian Attorney General. In it, representatives of the center asked to initiate a pre-trial investigation against the deputy for inciting hatred, the Lithuanian portal Delfi reported.
The BBC called Grazhulis “the record holder for the number of homophobic initiatives.” Specifically, he proposed to introduce in the Code of Administrative Offenses a fine of three thousand litas (870 euros) for promoting homosexuality.
