Piotr Voyeiko

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).

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.

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.

Officers of the Lithuanian State Security Department were satisfied with a verbal answer from impeached MP Mindaugas Bastys about his acquaintance with Piotr Voyeiko, a former KGB agent, therefore, no further probe was conducted, says the MP's lawyer.

Lithuanian MP Mindaugas Bastys who survived an impeachment on Tuesday has not yet said whether he would join the ruling majority.

The Lithuanian parliament shamefully discredited itself by keeping the MP mandate for the impeached MP Mindaugas Bastys, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė.

Lithuania's parliament Tuesday came a few votes short of revoking the mandate of MP Mindaugas Bastys for gross violation of the Constitution and his oath of office.

The Lithuanian parliament is to vote Tuesday on whether to strip MP Mindaugas Bastys of his mandate.

Ukraine and other countries in Eastern Europe inquire about the standards in connection to MP liability formed by the Lithuanian Constitutional Court in the case of Mindaugas Bastys, says the court's president Dainius Žalimas.

Lithuanian MP Mindaugas Bastys has no plans of giving up his mandate after the Constitutional Court ruled he had violated his oath of office.

Lithuanian MP Mindaugas Bastys breached his oath of office and committed a gross violation of the Constitution by concealing his ties with former KGB agent Piotr Voyeiko, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday.

Lithuania's Constitutional Court on Tuesday completed hearing in MP Mindaugas Bastys' impeachment case over his alleged ties with people working for the benefit of Russia, pledging to provide a conclusion by the end of 2017.

The Lithuanian Constitutional Court began on Tuesday a public hearing on MP Mindaugas Bastys' impeachment case.