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The chairman of the Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defence says that he will support the opposition's proposal to hold early elections in June.

Laisvės TV, an online television station set up by journalist Andrius Tapinas, is organizing a protest outside the parliament building in Vilnius on Thursday after the Seimas failed to impeach MP Mindaugas Bastys.

Broader application of secret voting facilitates non-transparent deals, says Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė.

After MP Mindaugas Bastys said he would leave the parliament, new elections in single-mandate district in Zanavykų constituency will take place before this fall.

Mindaugas Bastys on Wednesday announced plans of giving up his MP mandate after surviving an impeachment on Tuesday.

Four opposition groups of the Lithuanian parliament have suggested holding premature parliamentary elections.

Participation of MP Mindaugas Bastys who survived an impeachment vote on Tuesday in the ruling coalition is out of the question, says Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, urging the MP to give up his mandate.

Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has pledged to seek ways to repeat the vote in the impeachment of MP Mindaugas Bastys that came a few votes short on Tuesday.

Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, has accused the opposition conservatives for the parliament's decision to keep the MP mandate for Mindaugas Bastys.

The largest opposition groups of the Lithuanian parliament have dismissed the parliamentary vote, which failed to strip MP Mindaugas Bastys of his mandate amid impeachment, as an slap on the face for the State Security Department and the Constitutional Court.

Officers of the Lithuanian State Security Department were satisfied with a verbal answer from impeached MP Mindaugas Bastys about his acquaintance with Piotr Voyeiko, a former KGB agent, therefore, no further probe was conducted, says the MP's lawyer.

Lithuanian MP Mindaugas Bastys who survived an impeachment on Tuesday has not yet said whether he would join the ruling majority.

The Lithuanian parliament shamefully discredited itself by keeping the MP mandate for the impeached MP Mindaugas Bastys, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė.

Lithuania's parliament Tuesday came a few votes short of revoking the mandate of MP Mindaugas Bastys for gross violation of the Constitution and his oath of office.

Ukraine and other countries in Eastern Europe inquire about the standards in connection to MP liability formed by the Lithuanian Constitutional Court in the case of Mindaugas Bastys, says the court's president Dainius Žalimas.

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.

Lithuanian MP Mindaugas Bastys has no plans of giving up his mandate after the Constitutional Court ruled he had violated his oath of office.

Lithuanian MP Mindaugas Bastys breached his oath of office and committed a gross violation of the Constitution by concealing his ties with former KGB agent Piotr Voyeiko, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday.