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Most of 300,000 signatures in petition against gay Lithuanian MP faked by prankster
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Jurga Bakaitė, LRT.lt2021.05.14 11:45
Signatures generated by Ignas Šakuro s code – this is not the petition document presented to the parliament / E. Blaževič/LRT
An IT student claims he faked most of the signatures under a petition asking to remove an openly gay MP from committee chairmanship.
Last February, a group of activists led by Raimondas Grinevičius, who is also behind the controversial Family Defence March, demanded that liberal MP Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius be removed as the chairman of the Human Rights Committee.
The activists then presented a petition, allegedly signed by some 365,000 people, claiming that Raskevičius was unsuitable for the post due to his past LGBTQ+ activism.
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Lithuanian MEP Viktor Uspaskich (Getty/PETRAS MALUKAS)
Lithuanian MEP Viktor Uspaskich has been ordered to apologise for anti-LGBT+ remarks or face removal from his political grouping.
Uspaskich, who represents Lithuania’s centre-left Labour Party in the European Parliament, faced anger over a live Facebook video.
In the clip on Sunday, he claimed: “Today, in some European countries, it is dangerous to say that you are a representative of natural orientation, it has already become dangerous.”
Referring to LGBT+ people with a homophobic slur, he continued: “Most of these people do not advertise, but those who put their d k under a skirt and go into the street and shout, they are perverts, and such things must not be tolerated.”