Constitutional Court

The Lithuanian Constitutional Court decided on Thursday to open MP Kęstutis Pūkas' sexual harassment impeachment case in his absence.

The majority of Lithuania's residents are unhappy with the parliament's performance over the first year after the 2016 parliamentary elections, shows a survey conducted by RAIT pollster for BNS news agency.

The ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union has initiated impeachment against conservative MP Vytautas Juozapaitis over activities incompatible with an MP mandate.

The Lithuanian Constitutional Court has removed doubts that referendum is the only way of allowing dual citizenship, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said in comment of the Friday's ruling.

The dual citizenship referendum will probably be held in conjunction with the presidential elections in 18 months, says Lithuanian Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis' representative.

Granting dual Lithuanian citizenship to a broader circle of individual sis only possible after changing the Constitution by way of a referendum, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday.

The existing provisions on dual citizenship limit the free movement of Lithuanian citizens in European Union (EU) countries, which bars full exercise of trans-Atlantic integration, conservative MP Žygimantas Pavilionis told the Constitutional Court on Tuesday.

If the Constitutional Court does not pave way for dual citizenship for Lithuanians who have left for other countries of the European Union (EU) and NATO, politicians will have the duty of holding a referendum on amendments to the country's main law, says Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis.

Monday marks a year since the first round of Lithuania's parliamentary elections. BNS provides an overview of the key decisions taken by the new parliament, as well as the scandals it faced and the challenges it will still have to cope with.

Lithuania's Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas has instructed the ministry's Corruption Prevention and Internal Investigations Division to scrutinize the circumstances of a possible leak of information from the Migration Department to third parties.

The Lithuanian parliament's fall session may initiate more impeachment proceedings, in addition to the ones already launched against Mindaugas Bastys and Kęstutis Pūkas, says Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis.

Lithuania has been reproached for not inviting representatives of the Russian Constitutional Court to a global constitutional justice congress that got underway in Vilnius on Tuesday.

Constitutional court presidents from around the world are taking part in the 4th Congress of the World Conference on Constitutional Justice (WCCJ) that is opening in Vilnius on Tuesday.

The Lithuanian parliament has opened its autumn session. Here is a look at the session's potentially most-contentious bills:

Government chancellor Milda Dargužaitė, central bank governor Vitas Vasiliauskas and public procurement chief Diana Vilytė are ranked as Lithuania's most influential civil servants, Delfi.lt reported on Monday.

Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), says that he doubts that the majority of the ruling party's lawmakers would support Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis' initiative to grant the status of a former head of state and associated guarantees to Vytautas Landsbergis...

Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has given a skeptical view of the initiative registered at the parliament to establish the institute of Passport of Lithuanian, saying the problem should be solved by finally allowing dual citizenship.

Clergymen of the Roman Catholic Church of Lithuania have expressed indignation of the Tuesday's ruling by the Constitutional Court, which said that the clergy of traditional religious communities had been dismissed from military or alternative defense service without due grounds.