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The politician told journalist Delfi that he had suspended his membership in the Union of the Fatherland – the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party “almost two years ago” and that he had made that decision “about his career prospects.”
He spoke for himself
The long-hidden secret of Seimas member S. Šedbaras came to light by accident, after a Delfi journalist called him to comment on the decision made at the party presidium to sabotage the conservative Žygimantas Pavilionis’s translation of the post. President of the Seimas. Foreign Affairs Committee.
“You see, that’s the point – I didn’t attend the presidium meeting. I don’t usually participate”, – to Delfi’s question about Ž. S. Šedbaras, a member of the Seimas Ethics and Procedures Commission, responded to the party’s decision in favor of the pavilion.
When asked what the reasons were for such non-participation, the politician said: “I have suspended my membership in the party. I am not a member of the party. There is such a possibility that I stopped. He’s been here somewhere for a couple of years, “said S. Shedbar.
However, officially S. Shedbar remains a member of the Presidium of the TS – LKD party.
This is also made public on the party’s website.
Positions in the Party Presidium: one of the highest positions in the Conservative Party.
As can be seen from the party statutes, the Presidium prepares draft elections and party programs, prepares a draft TS-LKD candidate list for the Seimas and a draft for Seimas candidates in single-member electoral districts and submits them to the Council, approves annual financial statements and performs other significant functions in the party.
The Presidium TS – LKD is chaired by the party president, Gabrielius Landsbergis.
During a conversation with a Delphi reporter, Seimas member S. Shedbar clearly understood that he had said too much.
He began to ask that this information not be made public.
“It is not necessary to write there now, few people here know of my decision, if it is necessary to write here now,” former Constitutional Court judge S. Shedbar tried to influence the journalist.
Not even those responsible know
The Seimas member said he did not remember the date he suspended that membership. He refused to indicate which of those responsible for the party and in what way informed him of their decision.
And then it became clear that even the party leaders who are obliged to have such information according to their position are not aware of the fact that their longtime colleague S. Shedbar is not in the party ranks.
First of all, Delfi approached Valdas Benkunskas, Chairman of the Supervisory Committee of TS – LKD, a member of the Vilnius city council, with the question of when S. Šedbaras has suspended his membership in the party.
“I am not aware of that fact,” responded V. Benkunskas to the request to clarify the date of suspension of S. Shedbar’s membership in the party.
The politician advised to contact the party secretariat for information: “The party secretariat maintains the lists of members.”
Delfi addressed Martina Prievel, executive secretary of the Conservative Party. He asked that the questions be sent to him in writing.
However, the responses sent did not reveal Mr. Shedbar’s secret.
The party secretary was covered by the Personal Data Protection Directive, which supposedly did not allow the disclosure of such information.
The Delfi journalist then addressed the former executive secretary of the TS – LKD, current member of the Seimas Jonas Gudauskas, because, according to S. Šedbaras, the suspension of membership had to take place while this politician was the secretary of the Conservative. Party.
However, in 2020, a politician who attended the Seimas elections with S. Shedbar with the conservative flag and became a parliamentarian claimed that he did not know such news about his colleague.
“I heard for the first time that he is not in the game. I’ve heard from you, in fact, I don’t know how to comment. I don’t know that information, “said Seimas member J. Gudauskas.
The three interlocutors: M. Prievelis, J. Gudauskas, V. Benkunskas and Ž. Pavilion, during which the fact of the hidden biography of S. Shedbar was inadvertently revealed, just as S. Shedbar himself is a member of the Presidium of the TS-LKD party.
In the bio, already silent about membership.
Could it be that when he attended the Seimas elections in 2020, S. Shedbar provided false information about his membership in the Conservative Party?
Formally, no. Delfi studied the political career path of a politician and found that last year, when he ran in the single-member constituency of Trakai-Vievis as a TS-LKD candidate, S. Shedbar no longer indicated that he was a member of a political party. in his biography presented to the Central Electoral Commission.
In the bio, this line contains only a record of affiliation with the Law Society.
There is no proof of membership in a political party in the biography of the politician published on the Seimas website.
However, in 2019, when he ran for the European Parliament in the National Union elections, S. Shedbar noted that he was a member of the TS – LKD party.
The same records are found in the biographies of previous politicians who ran for office since the 2008 election.
Membership suspended due to your career on the Constitutional Court?
Mr. Shedbar himself asked the Delfi journalist to clarify what he meant by his suspension from membership in a political party “due to his professional prospects”.
However, sources from the Seimas and the judicial administration affirm that this step may have been taken in planning a future career in the Constitutional Court.
It is said that it has long been a public secret among influential parliamentarians and judges to seek the appointment of a politician to the Constitutional Court, where Judge S. Shedbar has already served in the past.
It was also mentioned publicly by Juozas Bernatonis, a member of the Seimas of the previous legislature, as it became known later, who also expected such an appointment from the country’s top leaders.
Questions also arise about the legitimacy of party decisions.
Lawyers who consulted the editorial committee said that such a situation, when even party members do not know that one of the party’s governing bodies is not actually a member of a political party, also raises doubts about the legitimacy of the documents adopted by the party. Conservative Party. Presidium itself.
“A political party is a legal person that is subject to the doctrine of administrative law. It is not just a circle of friends, and the documents adopted by the governing bodies formed by the party statutes amount to administrative legislation. The Presidium, according to the Party Statutes, published publicly and registered in the Center of Records and signed by the party president, Gabrielius Landsbergis, has a very broad mandate and the documents adopted by him are of the utmost importance. Therefore, in case of doubts as to whether a person who is not a member of the party participated in the meetings of the Presidium and made decisions, the question of the legality of the documents adopted would arise, ”said legal experts.
Among those documents adopted by the Presidium, the lawyers named both the electoral program of the Seimas and the procedure for approving the order of the candidates, as well as the approval of the direct election procedure of the president of the TS-LKD party and even the majority of the Seimas coalition.
“The Conservative Party should urgently provide the public with all records and minutes of Presidium meetings, which would confirm or deny that they can be questioned about possible violations.” If Mr Shedbar has attended at least one of these meetings, I am afraid that a scandal for this party is inevitable. This should be a matter and interest not only and not so much for the member of the Seimas S. Shedbar, but for the Conservative Party itself – to dispel any doubts, especially when looking at the public opinion polls, “said one of the constitutional representatives of the country, legal experts.
You have already demonstrated the importance of party politics.
While most Conservative Party members don’t even know that their longtime party has been a party without a party for almost a couple of years, the non-partisan S. Shedbar shows his thoughts on the draft amendments in the Seimas. to the Conservative law. .
The latest proof of this is the law amending the Law on the legal status of foreigners approved by the Seimas only on Tuesday.
The Interior Ministry, headed by the conservative Agnė Bilotaitė, tabled amendments aimed at drastically strengthening the legal status of illegal immigrants and restricting their free movement after the period of isolation.
Conservatives have suggested that during illegal asylum procedures, pending the examination of an application, it should be kept illegally in closed protected areas, the deadlines and procedures for appealing its applications should be stricter, and the decisions of the Migration Service on the expulsion of illegal migrants should be applied sooner than now.
However, after S. Šedbaras drafted this bill in the Law and Order Committee, taking into account the suggestions of Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius, the representative of the Freedom Party, it was difficult even for the organizers to recognize the bill. law, which will give such an illegal migrant all the freedoms and rights to move around the country during his six months of illegal stay in Lithuania.
Not only the opposition, but also the conservative parliamentarians of the Seimas were outraged by such uncoordinated amendments, and the liberal version of the law was approved only thanks to the vote of the opposition representative, Valdemaras Valkiūnas, a member of the Regions faction, when the opposition boycotted and voted.
It is true that sources in the Presidency say that the country’s president, Gitan Nauseda, is likely to veto this law, which was amended by S. Shedbar and later adopted.
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