A draft constitutional amendment to allow Lithuania's impeached former president, Rolandas Paksas, to run both in parliamentary and presidential elections passed the first reading in the Seimas on Tuesday.
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The new chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Stanislav Shevchuk, is visiting Vilnius on Monday to meet with Lithuania's officials and discuss support to the Ukrainian legal system reform.
Lithuania's parliament rejected the opposition initiative of early parliamentary elections in the first phase of discussion on Tuesday.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė calls on members of the Seimas to come together for joint work as she does not think that it is possible to hold an early parliamentary election, her adviser said on Tuesday.
Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission on Monday voted unanimously to revoke the mandate of Mindaugas Bastys as a member of the Seimas, with the decision to take effect on Wednesday.
Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission will Monday consider the plea filed by MP Mindaugas Bastys to revoke his mandate.
Some 5,000 people gathered outside the Lithuanian parliament in Vilnius on Thursday afternoon to express discontent with the failed parliamentary vote to impeach MP Mindaugas Bastys and the performance of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (EU).
The chairman of the Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defence says that he will support the opposition's proposal to hold early elections in June.
Laisvės TV, an online television station set up by journalist Andrius Tapinas, is organizing a protest outside the parliament building in Vilnius on Thursday after the Seimas failed to impeach MP Mindaugas Bastys.
Broader application of secret voting facilitates non-transparent deals, says Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė.
After MP Mindaugas Bastys said he would leave the parliament, new elections in single-mandate district in Zanavykų constituency will take place before this fall.
Mindaugas Bastys on Wednesday announced plans of giving up his MP mandate after surviving an impeachment on Tuesday.
A politician should not continue working in the parliament under the rule-of-law after breaching his oath of office, Dainius Žalimas, the president of the Lithuanian Constitutional Court, said after the parliament voted against revocation of MP Mindaugas Bastys' mandate.
Participation of MP Mindaugas Bastys who survived an impeachment vote on Tuesday in the ruling coalition is out of the question, says Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, urging the MP to give up his mandate.
Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has pledged to seek ways to repeat the vote in the impeachment of MP Mindaugas Bastys that came a few votes short on Tuesday.
Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, has accused the opposition conservatives for the parliament's decision to keep the MP mandate for Mindaugas Bastys.