Amnesty bill to go to Seimas despite criticism from legal experts

Praveniškės prison in Vilnius
DELFI / Valdas Kopūstas

The committee’s votes were tied and its chairwoman, Agnė Širinskienė of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), used her casting vote to support the bill proposed by Ramūnas Karbauskis, the ruling party’s leader.

The parliament’s Law Department has said that the draft law may be discriminatory in that it gives preference to older people and mothers with children.

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