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“What happens if someone contracts the COVID-19 virus during the oath? Who will take responsibility? “Asks A.Pocius on Facebook and says that he will continue with his deliberations and proposals on the upcoming swearing-in ceremony for LRS members.
He claims that he already submitted a proposal to take the oath to all the members of the Seimas at the same time, in the presence of the President of the Constitutional Court, repeating or reading the text of the oath, but this was not accepted.
“I cannot say if the organizers of this ceremony are looking for other ways to organize the swearing-in ceremony or if, despite the limitations of quarantine, they are sticking to the old and routine version of the scenario. Such a ceremony can last 6 hours or more ”, calculates A. Pocius.
According to him, the meetings are prohibited under quarantine conditions, but it will not be possible to maintain a safe distance of 2 meters in the hall of the Seimas on March 11, there will be 141 members of the Seimas and service personnel and representatives of the media in the hall. .
“It just came to our notice then. So what? Will we be here in 6-7 hours?” He asks.
True, A.Pocius unnecessarily told the media representatives. It has already been announced that the media will not be allowed.
However, the Seimas member is right that the ceremony may take some time. The Chancellery of Parliament plans to function in accordance with current traditions. The President of the Republic, Gitanas Nausėda, and the Archbishop of Vilnius, Metropolitan Gintaras Grušas, will come to congratulate the elected 13th Seimas, and then each member of the Seimas will take the oath.
It would be much safer outside.
A.Pocius offers to abandon such a long procedure under quarantine conditions and observe the army’s experience.
“I offer from my experience what I have seen in the armies of western countries and what we have implemented in the Lithuanian army. Lithuanian citizens performing military service can take the oath to the state while in the lineup, for example, four tables were raised, texts of the oaths were placed on them, the soldiers who read them, in front of the officer who took the oath and the military chaplain and all the soldiers sign the oath. And so in 1-1.5 hours. swear 100 and, if necessary, build more tables, and more, ”he says.
A.Pocius believes that the Chancellery of the Seimas could invite four judges of the Constitutional Court with the President at the head, and they, standing at the tables with the Constitution placed on them, could take the oaths of the members of the Seimas.
“Each of them would have to swear in 35 members of the Seimas and it would only take between 1.5 and 2 hours.” Or maybe you don’t have to be in the March 11 room? Maybe outside? How the certificates of a member of the Seimas were delivered. Outside it would be much safer.
Why not? Would such an oath made under extreme conditions be invalid? I don’t think so, “says A. Pocius.
However, the oath ceremony of the Seimas members is strictly legally defined.
The Constitution stipulates that the newly elected Seimas must meet for the first session, which usually begins at 12 noon. In the Seimas, he invites the President of the Republic.
On the day of the session to the first session, the mandate of the Seimas members begins to be counted. From the beginning of this session, the term of the previously elected Seimas members will end.
Only a member of the Seimas chosen to be loyal to the Republic of Lithuania in the session of the Seimas will acquire all the rights of a representative of the Nation. A member of the Seimas must take the oath at the first session of the newly elected Seimas, but if he has a justifiable reason, he may do so later.
A member of the Seimas takes an oath while standing in front of the President of the Constitutional Court, who takes the oath, reads the oath by placing his hand on the Constitution. After reading the oath, the Seimas member signs the nominal oath sheet. The text of the oath cannot be corrected or amended, but the deletion of the last sentence of the oath is allowed.
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