Antanas Tony G Guoga has ended for the time being.
Tony G announced his resignation from Lithuanian Parliament via Twitter, with
The Baltic Timesproviding a brief report. He said he plans to focus on business and potentially play more poker going forward, music to the ears of his many fans who recall his days as one of the leading attractions in the game.
Political Forays Since 2014
After a successful career in poker, Tony G made a huge transition to politics in Lithuania, where he was born before spending some of his youth in Australia.
âI think that Lithuanian politics needs new people and new blood and I want to change policy,â Guoga said while campaigning. âI have been fortunate enough myself to be reasonably successful in my life and I have new ideas and hope to inspire others to come into politics, too. I think I can bring a lot to the table with my experience in life and business.â
Follow RT on A controversial Lithuanian politician faces pressure in Brussels after releasing a video in which he slammed LGBT people as “perverts and deviants,” and said that life was getting harder and harder for heterosexuals.
In a clip posted to Facebook on Sunday, Viktor Uspaskich, the leader of the Lithuanian Labour Party and a Member of the European Parliament, alleged that in some neighboring countries, it has become dangerous to be
“a representative of a natural orientation.”
“I am talking specifically about these perverts, these deviants. Fate has given them this life, it’s not their fault that when they wear male clothes they feel like women, but the majority of people do not go around advertising themselves,” he said.
A Lithuanian MEP whose Facebook page features a video of him calling gays or transvestites “perverts” has been given until Thursday (14 January) to explain and apologise if he wants to stay in his political group.
Viktor Uspaskich, a leader of Lithuania’s populist Labour party and a member of the centrist Renew grouping in the European Parliament, published the live Facebook video on Sunday.
In it, he can be heard talking about individuals who “feel a certain inclination,” and stating: “Those who put their dick under a skirt and go into the street and shout, they are perverts, and such things must not be tolerated.”
MEPs demand Lithuanian politician to explain homophobic remarks
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Viktor Uspaskich / J. Stacevičius/LRT
Lithuanian MEP Viktor Uspaskich whose Facebook page features a video of him calling gays or transvestites “perverts” has been given until Thursday to explain and apologise if he wants to stay in his political group.
Uspaskich, a leader of Lithuania’s populist Labour Party and a member of the centrist Renew grouping in the European Parliament, published the live Facebook video on Sunday.
In it, he can be heard talking about individuals who “feel a certain inclination,” and stating: “Those who put their dick under a skirt and go into the street and shout, they are perverts, and such things must not be tolerated.”
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.”