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The amendment proposes that a citizen of the Republic of Lithuania who is not bound by an oath or promise to a foreign state and who is at least 21 years old on Election Day and permanently resides in Lithuania could be elected a member of the Seimas.
People over 25 can now apply for the Seimas.
It is proposed that this provision take effect from next year.
After the amendment was tabled, 63 deputies voted in favor, 45 abstained, and there were no objectors. The amendment will now be considered by the Seimas committees.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Victoria Čmilytė-Nielsen
Liberal Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen introduced the project and said the idea was born after consultation with youth organizations.
“There are 3 different age clauses in Lithuania for candidates for local government, the European Parliament and the Seimas,” he emphasized.
According to her, the average age of parliamentarians fluctuates around 50 years, so young people are isolated.
“No one is interested in such noise in the Seimas that I can’t hear much of myself,” said Aušrinė Armonaitė, the president of the Freedom Party, who wondered why she didn’t set out to reduce the age to 18, because people of this age can vote but do not apply.
However, V.Čmilytė-Nielsen said that at this stage it would be reasonable to compare the age limit with the EP nomination, and setting a lower age limit would run the risk of not gaining widespread support.
Conservative Mykolas Majauskas noted that a person over the age of 18 could be the prime minister or a minister; There are no restrictions for this position. Another conservative, Kęstutis Masiulis, equated this issue with empty tremors and asked if V. Čmilytė-Nielsen knew of countries where eighteen-year-olds had political weight. He stated that such examples exist and noted that the vibration of empty air on the agenda of Monday’s Seimas session is abundant, and this topic is one of the most important.
The amendment to the Constitution regarding R. Paksas was returned to the committee
Another amendment to the Constitution was proposed to create conditions for a person to be elected to the Seimas who had been removed from office by impeachment.
It is proposed to allow this to be done ten years after removal.
“A person who has been removed from office or revoked the mandate of a member of the Seimas by the Seimas in accordance with the impeachment procedure for serious violation of the Constitution or breach of the oath may be elected a member of the Seimas not earlier than ten years after the removal of said person from office or the revocation. Such person cannot be elected President of the Republic, nor can he occupy any other position specified in the Constitution, whose beginning is related to the oath provided for in the Constitution, ” He proposed such a provision to complement the country’s Basic Law.
Photo by Josvydas Elinskas / 15min / Rolandas Paksas
The European Court of Human Rights declared almost a decade ago that Lithuania’s current ban on participation in Seimas elections for life is disproportionate for Rolandas Paksas, who has been removed from office.
Agnė Širinskienė, the chair of the Law and Order Committee, said Monday that the committee did not support the amendment.
The representative of the Liberal Movement Eugenijus Gentvilas said that the decisions of the ECHR are binding on Lithuania. “I suggest not rejecting the project,” he said.
The Seimas decided not to reject the proposal; it was returned to the committee.
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