Constitutional Court

The Lithuanian parliament voted on Tuesday to give a renewed mandate to Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis' reshuffled Cabinet.

The Court of Appeal of Lithuania found former MP Kestutis Pukas guilty of sexual harassment and a gun possession violation. Pukas plans to appeal.

Lithuania's government is considering turning to the Constitutional Court over the funding of the national radio and television LRT.

The Constitutional Court's ruling on the Seimas' investigative commission on the Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) proves that political institutions should not interfere with the public broadcaster's activities, LRT Director-General Monika Garbaciauskaite-Budriene said.

The Seimas of Lithuania breached the country's Constitution when it established a special commission to investigate activity of the public broadcaster LRT, the Constitutional Court has ruled on Thursday.

Justice Minister Elvinas Jankevicius has asked the Constitutional Court to clarify how to implement international institutions' recommendations to open the way for Lithuania's impeached former president Rolandas Paksas to run in elections.

The Lithuanian Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that criminal intelligence data can be used in investigating misconduct in office by public officials.

Lithuania's Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that the amendments to the Law on Forests, adopted by the country's parliament in July, 2017 as a matter of exceptional urgency and stipulating a reform of forestry enterprises, are unconstitutional as exceptional urgency procedures can only be used ...

Research cornered Kepenis, anti-vaxxers and everyone, who met with antivaxxers on the street, shops and elsewhere. Bed and cards – even Guoga was left empty. Presidential ratings press on Nausėda. But the celebrations of those supporting Šimonytė, who has closed in on Nausėda, may also be premature.

It is time to get used to electoral committees – we have lived through a full term of municipal rule with them after all.

There is a good old English term illiberal democracy that does not have a precise translation into Lithuanian. It defines the regimes that come to power through democratic means, but their representatives apparently aim at the never-ending reign trampling on the fundamental European values of democr...

Currently the Seimas is discussing two legislative projects, which would fundamentally change news media work. Representative of the Lithuanian Journalist Union (LŽS) Darius Lukoševičius had a brief, but telling description for the majority’s aims – “declaring a state of war.” However, gathered in a...

With a third more civic electoral committees aiming to participate in the municipal elections than during the last, Seimas Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has stated that the conditions for establishing and operating parties should be simplified or made alike those of the committees. Political scientis...

From doctors to teachers. Against children’s rights protection law changes and for the impeachment of a member of Seimas. The lrt.lt news portal presents protests held in 2018, which drew crowds and caused ripples throughout the public.

On Thursday, the Seimas passed amendments to the referendum law, which increases the voting deadline to 10PM and expands the number of voting locations abroad with the aim of increasing voter turnout. Furthermore, the new law establishes an institution, which would perform campaigning when the Seima...

On Thursday, the Seimas voted in a final rejection of the LRT investigation conclusions. However, this does not mean that the majority will stop seeking to change the public broadcaster’s management. Already in spring, talks could turn to the Lithuanian national radio and television law, lrt.lt writ...

On Thursday, the final vote on the LRT investigation commission’s conclusions was held in Seimas. As Remigijus Žemaitaitis, who chaired the sitting, noted – this vote was unprecedented. Amendments proposed by Aušrinė Armonaitė and the conclusions‘ first article were approved, but the vote on the sec...

On Thursday, the Seimas should be holding its final vote on the LRT investigation commission’s conclusions. They propose to change LRT management, establishing a board, changing council member appointment procedures and shortening their terms, lrt.lt writes.

Understanding that they may lack votes in Seimas to approve the LRT commission’s conclusions, the “Farmers” are seeking to reach their goals at any cost. According the Liberals, in order to approve the ad hoc commission’s investigation conclusions, the “Farmers” are taking to procedural manipulation...

The Seimas Ombudsman has called the Parliament to avoid any initiatives limiting the independence of the national broadcaster. The Seimas Ombudsman, Augustinas Normantas, has urged the Parliament to avoid the initiatives that would have a political and/or economic influence on the public broadcaster...