City Council not support petition to ban cross processions in Lvov centre
The religious procession of the UGCC in Lvov, 2018. Photo: zaxid.net
Deputies of the Lvov City Council did not support the demand of citizens to prohibit religious processions in the city center, suggesting instead to regulate the events involving the closure of the Lvov central streets, reports Tvoemisto.tv.
We recall that in June of this year, the site of the Unified System of Local Petitions registered a petition of Sergey Litnevsky, a resident of Lvov, in which he demanded to ban any religious processions requiring street closures or restrictions on public and private transport within the city. A little more than a day, the petition collected the number of signatures necessary for consideration by the City Council.
Most of the deputies did not support the petition; instead, the deputy Igor Diakovich initiated a protocol assignment, according to which a complex solution should be found to the problem of street closure during public events.
The edition notes that this is already the second such petition: earlier, the director of the Legal Department of the Lvov City Council Gelena Payonkevich said that the first petition concerned the prohibition of Catholic religious processions, which the secretariat also rejected.
As the UOJ reported, in early 2019, a petition was registered on the website of the President of Ukraine with a request to create an independent Ukrainian Catholic Church in Ukraine.
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