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“I really want to believe that this is the first and last such case in the history of Lithuania.” All authorities must act in a focused and responsible manner, leading by example in the implementation of the provisions of the Constitution, “wrote the Thursday the head of state on the Facebook account of the social network.
However, G. Nausėda called the Seimas decision to appoint two of the three candidates for Constitutional Court judges as an important step, “which we all expected.”
“The change of judges of the Constitutional Court is a significant event not only for the lawyers, but also for the entire Lithuanian people. I respectfully thank the outgoing magistrates of the Constitutional Court Gediminas Mesonis and Vytas Milius for their tireless work and dedication to constitutional justice, ”said G. Nausėda.
“I want to sincerely congratulate the new judges of the Constitutional Court who have been sworn in today,” he added.
On Thursday, the Seimas appointed two new CC judges: lawyer Giedrė Lastauskienė and judge of the Supreme Court of Lithuania (SCL) Algis Norkūnas.
However, the parliament rejected the candidacy of Andrius Kabišaitis, director of the Legal Department of the Seimas.
A. Kabišaitis was nominated for the CC by the president of the Seimas Viktorija Čmilytė-Nieslen, G. Lastauskienė – president Gitanas Nausėda, SCL Judge A. Norkūnas – interim president of the SCL Sigita Rudėnaitė.
The non-appointment of A. Kabišaitis means that Dainius Žalimas, the outgoing president of the CC, remains in office.
For the first time due to the vote of the candidates to the CC Seimas last April. The three proposed attorneys did not receive approval. In addition to G. Lastauskienė and A. Norkūnas, the candidacy of former CC Chancellor Ingrida Danielienė was also rejected.
The Constitution provides that the Constitutional Court is renewed every three years for one third. The court consists of nine judges appointed for nine years and for one term only.
The mandate of the president of the Constitutional Court D. Žalimas and of judges G. Mesonis and V. Milius ended on March 19 of last year. They will remain in office until new judges are appointed.
The judges of the CC are appointed and dismissed by the Seimas.
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