Constitutional Court

MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis broke his oath with antisemitic statements and seriously violated the Constitution, the Constitutional Court ruled Thursday.

The Constitutional Court judged Thursday that the Istanbul Convention does not contradict provisions of the Constitution of Lithuania.

The Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that the pension accumulation law restricted the ability to withdraw money from pension funds and thus violated the Constitution.

Petras Gražulis, who has just lost his parliamentary mandate, says the Seimas’ decision has not come as a surprise to him. The politician now plans to focus on elections to the European Parliament due in May next year.

The Seimas on Monday voted to impeach MP Petras Gražulis after the Constitutional Court ruled he violated the Constitution and breached his oath. This means Gražulis has been banned from running for an MP for ten years.

Latvia ratified the Istanbul Convention in November 2023, while Estonia did so in 2017, leaving Lithuania the last of the Baltic countries to approve the document adopted by the Council of Europe in 2011. Parliament Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen says the Seimas will resume deliberations on the i...

President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda vows to reveal next week if he is going to run for president in May 2024. He told the media earlier that there was just one unknown before he would finally make up his mind.

The Seimas on Tuesday decided to launch impeachment proceedings against MP Petras Gražulis convicted for abuse of office.

The Parliament on Thursday voted to support a recommendation for impeachment of MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis accused of antisemitism.

MP Mindaugas Lingė, chairman of the Seimas Committee on Budget and Finance, has revealed that some time ago a group of legislators addressed the Constitutional Court to contest the Government’s 2022 resolution whereby China was listed as an unreliable supplier of software.

Lithuania’s Constitutional Court (KT) has judged that forcible accommodation of migrants in foreigners’ registration centres after they had illegally crossed the state border was unconstitutional. Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė says authorities started lifting restrictions on the movement of migra...

On Thursday, parliament voted in favour of launching the impeachment procedure of MP Petras Gražulis and decided to address the Constitutional Court, which would ascertain if the MP breached the Constitution and violated his oath.

The Seimas approved on Tuesday a motion to start impeachment proceedings against MP Petras Gražulis, which now moves to the Constitutional Court.

BNS – The Commission of the Seimas and the Lithuanian World Community on Friday will start preparations for a new referendum on preservation of Lithuanian citizenship.

Candidates for judges of the Constitutional Court will be proposed to the Seimas of Lithuania next week and they will include lawyer Giedre Lastauskiene, Algis Norkunas, a judge of the Supreme Court of Lithuania, and Andrius Kabisaitis, head of the Legal Department of the Office of the Seimas.

Lithuania's 2020-2024 parliament has on Friday started working after convening for its first sitting.

Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on Friday expanded sanctions against Belarusian regime officials responsible for vote-rigging and violence against peaceful protesters.

The new wording of Lithuania's Law on Referendum was adopted in 2018 through a procedure that violated the Constitution, the Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday.

The 2018 amendments to Lithuania's Law on Waste Management that imposed a ban on building waste-to-energy facilities within 20 kilometers from residential areas are unconstitutional, the Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday.

Lithuania's Constitutional Case on Thursday accepted the first individual constitutional complaint after a person sentenced to prison used the possibility, created in September, to directly turn to the court.