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“Now signatures are being collected to hold an extraordinary session on Wednesday, to appeal to the Constitutional Court for a Seimas resolution,” Ramūnas Karbauskis, president of the Lithuanian Union of Peasants and Greens, told BNS on Tuesday.
According to the Statute of the Seimas, an unscheduled session of the Seimas must be held if at least one third of the members of the Seimas request it in writing, that is, no fewer than 47 parliamentarians.
According to the “Peasants”, the president of the Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis could not make a unilateral decision to reject the LLRA-KŠS request to address the CC on the violations of the Seimas elections and their possible significant impact on the results.
According to Agnė Širinskienė, chair of the Seimas Law and Order Committee, only the Seimas can make that decision.
“The president of the Seimas really cannot, because (in the law – BNS) it is written that the decision is made by the president and the Seimas. The president is a one-man body, but the president of the Seimas is certainly not equal to the Seimas. Seimas is a collegiate body that makes decisions in the form of resolution and takes collegial decisions, ”A. Širinskienė told BNS.
“The Speaker of the Seimas, good or bad as he is, cannot really usurp the powers of the Seimas,” he added.
The chairwoman of the commission was also surprised that the parliamentarians were not even informed about the LLRA-KŠS application received.
“In this case, the members of the Seimas, if not the media, wouldn’t even know about it. But I cannot get acquainted with the text itself, “said A. Širinskienė.
According to her, the mechanism for appealing the results of the elections to the Seimas established by law raises doubts about the 48 hours provided. the deadline for the Seimas and the president to make a decision on assigning the role of mediator to these institutions.
“I think the safest way would have been for the president or now the Seimas to run and leave the opportunity to the Constitutional Court for evaluation,” A. Širinskienė told BNS.
“What LLRA-KŠS writes about their fears and the possible falsification of results in the Paneriai-Grigiškės district, the fact that the CEC has requested a pre-trial investigation, and for various members, we will find out what it is like with that announcement. I think that for the sake of clarity and practice, during the next elections, the best option would be to let the judges of the CC make a decision, ”he said.
On Tuesday, the president of Seimas V. Pranckietis announced that he did not intend to initiate an appeal to the Constitutional Court, as he did not see a violation of the Seimas Elections Law.
Previously, President Gitanas Nausėda also rejected the request of the party led by Valdemaras Tomaševskis to appear before the Constitutional Court.
The law stipulates that participants in the Seimas elections may appeal to the Seimas or the President within 24 hours of the decisions of the Central Election Commission, and the Seimas or the President will address the Constitutional Court within 48 hours. with a question related to the violation of the Electoral Law of the Seimas.
LLRA-KŠS claims that the law on the Seimas elections was seriously violated by a campaign launched by the publicist, host of the Andrius Tapinas program, with the aim of preventing the party from entering parliament.
The Central Election Commission stated that the “Todo Bien, Voldemortai” campaign and the “Todo Bien, Valdemarai” publication were negative LLRA-KŠS advertisements, but did not violate the electoral campaign law, since neither A. Tapinas nor “Laisvės TV “They participated in the political campaign.
Tapin says he has not violated any legislation and that the action cannot be equated with a political campaign.
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