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The bill on the legal status of the president of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania was registered by the president of the Seimas, the leader of the Liberal Movement Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, the member of the conservative faction Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė, the Freedom Member Elder of the Seimas Ieva Pakarklytė faction
The bill proposes to establish that “the President of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania since 1990. March 11 the head of the independent state of Lithuania was restored.
The law would establish that according to the Provisional Basic Law of March 11, 1990, the President of the Supreme Council was the highest official in Lithuania and “from 1990. March 11 to 1992 November 25 had and exercised the constitutional powers of the head of state “.
The initiators claim that the project was developed “after evaluating the political, historical and legal circumstances and the work carried out, which determined the exceptional constitutional, political and legal status of the President of the Supreme Council of Lithuania to carry out the work for him. it was commissioned by the representatives of the people. “
The explanatory note notes that the head of the Supreme Council had the authority to represent Lithuania in international relations, sign laws, negotiate and sign international agreements, accept credentials and revocations from foreign diplomatic representatives, etc.
“Thus, the powers and the work carried out in the Provisional Basic Law assigned to the President of the Supreme Council as the highest official of Lithuania demonstrate that he exercised the powers and carried out the work that the Heads of State have and are carrying out,” explains the explanation states of note.
Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė and the eldest of the Liberal Movement faction, Eugenijus Gentvilas, are also among the initiators of the bill.
The Seimas had already tried to grant the status of head of state to V. Landsbergis during the last term, but at the initiative of the then president of the Seimas, Viktoras Pranckietis, he did not receive the political support of the former rulers.
R. Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė: V. Landsbergis was the head of the state
Recognizing the president of the Supreme-Restorative Council of Seimas of Lithuania, Vytautas Landsbergis, as head of the country is a matter of honor, because he was the leader of the state, says the elder of the conservative faction in the Seimas Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė.
“I think it is a matter of honor that the state recognizes things as they are. We probably cannot ignore that the man who had the assigned functions, who usually has the head of state, was the leader of the state at that time,” said MP to BNS this Monday.
He also said that the bill, which aims to give Landsberg head of state status, had been discussed with coalition partners who had no doubts.
“We talked and, as far as I was concerned, people had no doubt whether the state had a leader in 1990-1992. I think this is an eloquent assessment, ”said R. Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė.
According to the curator, there was no “special opportunity” to register this project at this time, but they wanted to start the process before the end of the spring session of the Seimas.
He added that the project had not been coordinated with the opposition, only that “it was mentioned in one place or another,” so the Seimas member awaits a discussion in the parliament hall.
“I understand that good humor and I know that not everyone sees this problem as well, I think we will inevitably have a discussion in the room,” said R. Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė.
V. Landsbergis: Recognizing the president of the TA as head of the country is a matter of state prestige
Vytautas Landsbergis, chairman of the Lithuanian Supreme Council, the Restorative Seimas, says that recognizing a person who has held this position as head of the country is a matter of state prestige.
“It is a matter of state prestige, that there are no speeches, that the state appeared on March 11, 1990 in an unknown manner and did not even have a leader,” Landsberg told BNS on Monday.
He said this after the governors of the Seimas registered a bill proposing that the president of the Supreme Council be granted the status of head of state.
“Everyone knows and remembers the current situation, but formally it is not said in those words, and then there are tricks that the highest state official at that time was not the leader,” Landsbergis said.
The bill proposes to establish that “the President of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania since 1990. March 11 the head of the independent state of Lithuania was restored.
The draft law on the legal status of the President of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania was registered by the President of the Seimas Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, the Elder of the Conservative Group Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė, the Elder of the Freedom Faction the Member of the Seimas Ieva Pakarklytė, member of the Seimas Paulė Kuzmickienė.
Landsberg said Arnold Ruutel, the former chairman of the Estonian Supreme Council, had been recognized as head of state in his country for some time.
He argued that granting him head of state status would not be important to him personally.
“It is personally important to my late wife, she felt that injustice,” Landsberg said.
