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With 49 votes in favor, 28 against and 26 abstentions, the Seimas did not have enough votes to form a special commission of inquiry to prepare a conclusion on the basis of initiating an impeachment process.
The parliamentarians who collected 44 signatures sought to charge I. Rozova with accusation of covert contacts with Russian diplomats. The initiators argued that for their actions I. Rozova “possibly seriously violated the Constitution and broke the oath of a member of the Seimas.”
Not less than a quarter of the right to present impeachment proceedings to the Seimas, i. and. 36 Group of Seimas Members. According to the Seimas Statute, in such a case, the Seimas will form a special commission of inquiry, which will prepare a conclusion on whether there are reasons to initiate an impeachment process.
If the Seimas did not approve said proposal, the vice president of the Seimas, Irena Degutienė, who chaired the session, declared that the project should be returned to the initiators for improvement, since the formation of the commission is essential.
“Since Seimas voted against this Seimas resolution, we must compel ourselves to return this draft resolution to the initiators for improvement. It cannot be rejected because it is an imperative, and we must establish a special commission of inquiry,” said the vice president.
In the event of a dispute in the Seimas, the Seimas Ethics and Procedures Commission requested clarification.
In the impeachment statement, Seimas members state that “there are sufficient grounds to conclude that Seimas member I. Rozova, in order to obtain permission to work with classified information, (…) deliberately attempted to conceal officials from the SSD their contacts with the Russian diplomatic corps and their nature. “
Ms. Rozova did not mention those contacts in her application for a work permit for classified information. The Department of State Security (SSD), which carried out the inspection, recommended that the President of Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis not grant permission.
The SSD document writes about consultations with Russian diplomats on financial support for the Russian Alliance, the communication from the Seimas member to Russian Consul General Vladimir Malygin, who was sent from Lithuania in 2014.
Ms. Rozova says that her contacts with Russian diplomats were not personal, so she did not have to declare them on the SSD questionnaire.
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