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The first session of the Seimas will begin at noon with a solemn part in the historic Assembly Hall on March 11.
According to the Statute of the Seimas, the first session of the mandate will be opened by the elected member of the oldest Seimas: Antanas Vinkus, 77 years old. He will preside until the president of the Seimas is elected.
President Gitanas Nausėda and the Archbishop of Vilnius, Metropolitan Gintaras Grušas, will welcome the new parliamentarians.
In the first session, the President of the Central Election Commission, Laura Matjošaitytė, will announce the decision of the Central Election Commission on the final results of the Seimas elections and will read the list of elected members of the Seimas. After that, the swearing-in ceremony of the Seimas members will begin.
Only by swearing allegiance to the Republic of Lithuania does the parliamentarian acquire the authority to work. The president of the Constitutional Court, Dainius Žalimas, will take the oath of office from the members of the Seimas.
According to preliminary data, isolated or ill politicians will not be able to swear the COVID-19 on Friday: the social democrat Eugenijus Sabutis, the “social worker” Andrius Palionis, Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė elected with “peasants”, with conservatives – Justas Džiugelis and with the Party of Freedom – Evelina
The sworn members of the Seimas for the period 2020-2024 will continue their work in the usual plenary hall. The Speaker of the Seimas and their alternates will be elected, and the composition of the Board and the Conference of Elders will be approved.
Under the agreement of the center-right coalition, the president of the Liberal Movement, Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, will be appointed head of parliament.
The president of the Seimas is elected by secret ballot by a simple majority of votes.
81 former MPs were re-elected to the thirteenth Seimas and 60 new members were elected. The Seimas will be made up of 38 women and 103 men. Their average age is 49 years, 99 percent. future parliamentarians have higher education, mainly law and political science.
Representatives from ten parties will work in the new parliament, the largest member – 50 – will have members of the Christian Democratic faction of the National-Lithuanian Union.
When the new parliament takes office, the government of Prime Minister S. Skvernel will return its powers to the president. She should be appointed to a temporary post until a new center-right government is formed, led by Ingrida Šimonytė.
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