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Lithuania’s Supreme Administrative Court asks for clarification as to whether Lithuania does not violate the European Convention on Human Rights by prohibiting a person expelled due to impeachment from participating in the Seimas elections.
This request will be heard by a Grand Chamber of 17 judges, the Strasbourg court said.
Last year, the Central Election Commission refused to register N. Venckienė as a candidate for the Seimas, and appealed this decision to the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania. This suspended the case and he consulted Strasbourg.
N. Venckienė lost his parliamentary term after impeachment in 2014.
The Lithuanian Constitutional Court has formulated the doctrine that a parliamentarian who has violated his oath can never be elected to the Seimas.
Ms Venckienė claims that this violates her rights, which are guaranteed by the doctrine of the Strasbourg court.
In the case of Rolandas Paksas, the European Court of Human Rights had declared that a person who has broken his oath of office cannot be prevented from running for life for the Seimas.
The Constitutional Court of Lithuania declares that the only way to eliminate the incompatibility between it and the doctrine of the Strasbourg Court is to pass an amendment to the Constitution. The Seimas has not yet adopted such an amendment, which is why the Council of Europe is constantly criticizing Lithuania.
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