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Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is robbing time with her veto of amendments to the Referendum Law, lowering the threshold for such a dual citizenship referendum, Ramūnas Karbauskis, leader of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS), says.
Ramūnas Karbauskis
Ramūnas Karbauskis
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"We’ll either reject the veto or adopt a similar law. The president is robbing our time as we will have to do the same thing," he told BNS Lithuania on Wednesday.

He reiterated that he would propose to the parliament to reject the presidential veto and later turn to the Constitutional Cou

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