75 MPs voted for such a decision, 39 were once morest, ten abstained.
Supporters of rejecting the veto were present in all factions of the Seimas, except for the Freedom Party. All its members who attended the Seimas meeting voted once morest the use of night optical devices for hunting.
At least 71 votes of MPs are needed to override the veto.
“Today’s discussion is regarding the legalization of new expensive entertainment, nothing more,” said conservative Andrius Vyšniauskas, urging support for the veto.
Hunters working in the Seimas at that time said that the amendment would ensure the welfare of wild animals.
Congratulating the parliament’s decision, the chairman of the Lithuanian Hunters and Fishermen’s Association, Virginijus Kantauskas, thanked 30,000 people. on behalf of the hunting community.
“I can confidently say that Lithuanian hunters are the greatest friends of the country’s nature. And if it weren’t for them, Lithuania wouldn’t have such a fascinating nature and abundance of animals,” he said in a press release.
In December, the Seimas adopted amendments to the Law on Hunting, which approved the lists of permitted and prohibited tools for hunting.
One of the lists provides that night sights may be used for hunting hogs, foxes, mongooses, raccoons, minks, nutria and muskrats.
The president vetoed these amendments because, according to him, the use of night sights would create conditions for the unjustified impoverishment of wildlife. In addition, it would be difficult to control the use of such tools, since environmentalists would have no way to determine whether the animal was shot with or without a night scope. According to the president, as a result, administrative and criminal liability for the illegal use of night sights in hunting would actually become inapplicable.
The amendment to the law regarding the legalization of night sights was initiated by Kęstutis Mažeika, a member of the Committee on Rural Affairs, representative of the “Vardan Lietuvos” Democratic Union.
On Thursday, he said the president’s veto showed a lack of confidence in the hunting community.
“It seems that as many questions and discussions took place in the Seimas following the first vote on the rejection of the veto, it seems that the advisors (of the president – BNS), who both yesterday and today are actively calling the members of the Seimas and influencing them not to vote, not to participate, this in this case, it probably shows (…) that it is not the president’s veto, but the president’s ego,” asserted K. Mažeika.
“It’s a shame the president didn’t hear from the hunting community that this tool is not some miracle, it’s not a panacea or a panacea because it’s the same as a searchlight that you use in the dark,” he said.
Conservationist Audrius Petrošius claimed that the population of wild animals in Lithuania has increased significantly. According to him, the number of cases of car collisions with wild animals has increased not in units, but sometimes.
He emphasized that the function of regulating the population of wild animals has been assigned by the state to hunters, so it must be provided with the appropriate tools.
Proponents of legalizing night sights also say that the use of these devices would contribute to more effective enforcement of animal welfare principles – the animal would be shot with a single shot, without suffering injuries. They also claim that having night vision equipment would help both in home defense and in the fight once morest African swine fever.
Environmentalists argue that such a permit allows for poaching because there is no practical way to control that night scopes are used to hunt only those animals targeted by the law.
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Ieva Pakarklytė, a member of the Freedom Party faction, said on Thursday that the arguments of the supporters of the legalization of night devices in hunting regarding the contribution to the defense of the country and the fight once morest the African swine fever were repeatedly rejected by experts in those fields.
“What I miss in this discussion is the nurturing of traditional hunting and raising the competence and professionalism of hunters, and not just putting new toys in their hands that they may not always be able to handle,” she said.
Conservative Aistė Gedvilienė, chairwoman of the Environmental Protection Committee of the Seimas, emphasized that if hunters did not feed wild boars now, but hunters hunted them more intensively, they would regulate their population with available means.
Until now, the tools allowed and prohibited for hunting were determined by the Hunting Rules and approved by the Minister of the Environment. Night sights were on the list of prohibited tools.
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2024-04-15 01:38:27
