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.
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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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