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Centrist European Parliament grouping Renew Europe on Wednesday voted to expel a Lithuanian MEP over homophobic remarks he made in a video on Facebook. Viktor Uspaskich, a leader of the Baltic state’s populist Labour party, sparked outrage last week after footage of him calling gay or transvestite people “perverts” was published online. The politician sent a letter to Renew leaders in the European Parliament after they demanded an explanation in which he apologised for causing an “uproar”. But he said his comments had been taken out of context or lost in translation – and doubled down by insisting he still had the right to criticise people who “lead a perverted way of life”.
The liberal group in the European Parliament has expelled Lithuanian MEP Viktor Uspaskich with "immediate effect" over an anti-LGBTI Facebook post earlier this month. "There is no place for homophobia in the Renew Europe family," group leader, Romanian ME...
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Lithuanian Labour Party MEP Viktor Uspaskich (Getty/ PETRAS MALUKAS) Lithuanian MEP Viktor Uspaskich has been booted from the European Parliament group Renew Europe after calling LGBT+ people “perverts”. Uspaskich, who represents Lithuania’s centre-left Labour Party, had been ordered to apologise for the “despicable remarks” which sparked an outrage. “Today in some European countries, it is dangerous to say that you are a representative of natural orientation, it has already become dangerous,” he claimed in a live Facebook video on 10 January. Referring to LGBT+ people as “deviants”, 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.”
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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
A Lithuanian MEP accused of homophobia apologised on Wednesday (13 January) after fellow lawmakers threatened to expel him from the liberal Renew grouping in the European Parliament.
Lithuanian MEP Uspakich apologises for homophobic remarks 29 Viktor Uspaskich / D. Umbrasas/LRT On Wednesday, Lithuanian MEP Viktor Uspaskich apololgised for his homophobic remarks after he was threatened with expulsion from the liberal Renew Europe Group at the European Parliament. "I apologise [...] sincerely, that my words, though perhaps too rude or used not carefully enough, but taken out of context, caused misunderstanding, grief and uproar," Uspaskich said in a letter seen by BNS. The leader of the Lithuanain Labour Party assured his colleagues in Renew Europe "that in the future, I will do my utmost to formulate my speeches more carefully".