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N.Venckienė and “Drąsos kelias” filed complaints with a request to overturn the CEC’s decision with the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania on Monday, the party reported.
According to the party, the CEC’s decision should be annulled because the country’s laws “do not prohibit participation in the elections six years after the indictment, which is in line with the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights.”
Last week, the CEC did not register N.Venckienė as a candidate for the Seimas on the basis of the Constitutional Court’s interpretation that a person removed by impeachment cannot hold a position that requires a constitutional oath. According to the court, this provision can only be modified by amending the Constitution.
Ms Venckienė takes the position that her case should be subject to the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the case of the ousted President Rolandas Paksas that Lithuania has violated the European Convention on Human Rights by prohibiting him from being elected to Parliament . In 2011, a court in Strasbourg ruled that a lifetime ban on elections was disproportionate.
The CEC members who adopted the decision emphasized that the ECHR interpretations only oblige legislators to clarify the regulations, which may not be in line with the Human Rights Convention and are not directly applicable.
In 2014, the Seimas revoked the mandate of N. Venckienė, a representative of the “Path of Courage”. The Constitutional Court held that N. Venckien<2FEMININE> had broken her oath and had seriously violated the Constitution by not attending parliamentary sessions for more than half a year.
N.Venckienė fled to the United States due to accusations by prosecutors for the non-execution of the court decision to transfer the daughter to the mother and the abuse of the rights of the girl’s representative.
She was returned to Lithuania last year and the Panevėžys Regional Court is currently examining a case involving four criminal offenses.
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