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The Court of Appeal of Lithuania found former MP Kestutis Pukas guilty of sexual harassment and a gun possession violation. Pukas plans to appeal.

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Lithuanian prosecutors have handed to court a criminal case where ex-MP Kęstutis Pūkas is charged with sexual harassment and violation of firearm storage rules.

Viktoras Pranckietis says that he has support in the parliament and is not considering stepping down as the speaker of the Seimas, playing down the ruling party leader's hint that he should do so as emotion-driven.

Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), has said that Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, may step down if he is ashamed of some members of the parliament.

Lithuania's parliament is starting the spring session on Saturday – the political season is expected to be hot from the very start, with the parliament scheduled to vote next week on the impeachment of Mindaugas Bastys of the group of non-attached members.

Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has pledged to form an ad hoc commission at the parliament to scrutinize the sexual misconduct allegations against MP Mykolas Majauskas.

Vilnius prosecutors will look into the public reports about possible sexual harassment after instructions from Prosecutor General Evaldas Pašilis to scrutinize all legal circumstances of the events.

Kęstutis Pūkas, who resigned as a member of the Lithuanian parliament just before a vote on his impeachment earlier this month, will be replaced by Ona Valiukevičiūtė, the next-in-line candidate on the Order and Justice party's list in the 2016 Seimas elections.

Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission is handing down the mandate of Kęstutis Pūkas, the embattled MP who stepped down just before the impeachment vote, to former MP Ona Valiukevičiūtė.

Lithuanian MP Kęstutis Pūkas who has recently been charged with sexual harassment gave up his MP mandate on Friday after the start of parliamentary discussion to revoke his mandate.

The Lithuanian parliament's meeting of elders decided to remove the bid to revoke the mandate of MP Kęstutis Pūkas from the plenary agenda.

Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis and leaders of many parliamentary groups say they believe the mandate of MP Kęstutis Pūkas will be revoked after the Constitutional Court ruled he violated his oath by sexually harassing women during job interviews.

Kęstutis Pūkas, a member of the Lithuanian parliament, calls the Constitutional Court's decision that he breached oath "unjust" and plans to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says he will vote in favour of stripping Kęstutis Pūkas of his mandate on sexual harassment allegations and expects other members of the Seimas to do the same.

Kęstutis Pūkas, a member of the Lithuanian parliament, violated the Constitution and breached oath when he allegedly sexually harassed his female assistant and young women who sought the job, the Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday.

The Lithuanian Constitutional Court is to issue on Tuesday its opinion on whether MP Kęstutis Pūkas breached oath and violated the Constitution when he allegedly sexually harassed his female assistant and young women who sought the job.

Lithuania's parliament on Tuesday lifted the legal immunity of MP Kęstutis Pūkas who faces suspicions of sexual harassment and violation of gun possession rules.