Commission for Ethics and Procedures

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S. Jakeliūnas advised to speak to speak more reservedly by Seimas ethics watchdog

In response to an LRT complaint regarding harm to the public broadcaster’s reputation, the Seimas Ethics and Procedures Commission has…

6 years ago
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Seimas breached statute in passing bill on LSDDP funding, ethics watchdog says

The Seimas violated its Statute when it adopted an amendment to the budget bill that allows the state to borrow…

6 years ago
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Lithuanian parlt commission decides not to open probe on MP Mackevič

The Lithuanian parliament's Commission for Ethics and Procedures decided on Wednesday not to open a probe regarding MP Michal Mackevič…

6 years ago
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Seimas commission decides not to open probe on MP Majauskas

The Lithuanian parliament's Commission for Ethics and Procedures decided on Wednesday not to look at whether there are grounds for…

7 years ago
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Kęstutis Girnius. Did the Seimas cast a challenge to the rule of law?

With the impeachment of M. Bastys failing in Seimas, a wave of outrage rippled forward, part earnest, part based on…

7 years ago
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Clear signs of parliamentary crisis, but snap elections are unlikely

After the Seimas vote to impeach Mindaugas Bastys floundered due to a lack of votes despite the Constitutional Court ruling…

7 years ago
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Social Democrat rebels are not yielding

The Social Democrat rebels, whom the party ethics commission has proposed to remove from the party, are not yielding and…

7 years ago
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Ruling party’s leader, 2 other MPs breached statute

The Lithuanian parliament's Commission for Ethics and Procedures found on Wednesday that three parliamentarians of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and…

7 years ago
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Female MPs call for considering impeachment against MP Pūkas

The Group of Women at the Seimas has asked the Lithuanian parliament's Ethics and Procedures Commission to look into the…

8 years ago
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Extraordinary Seimas session was not ended properly, commission rules

Parliamentary procedures were violated when an extraordinary plenary session, initiated by the opposition, was ended abruptly last week, the Seimas…

9 years ago
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Ethics commission to investigate early end to Seimas extraordinary session

The Seimas Commission for Ethics and Procedures will convene to investigate the disputes surrounding the abrupt ending of the extraordinary…

9 years ago
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Conservatives call for impeachment of Labour MP Gapšys

The opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives) intend to call an extraordinary session of the Seimas (parliament) on…

9 years ago
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Public figures call for Landsbergis to be granted Freedom Prize despite Seimas rejection

The Lithuanian Seimas snubbed Vytautas Landsbergis, chairman of the Supreme Council of Lithuania (the reconstituent Seimas) and signatory of the…

9 years ago
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MP Kubilius says Ukrainian president’s advisory council he is on works ‘theoretically’ only

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's advisory council works only theoretically, Lithuanian opposition leader Andrius Kubilius of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian…

9 years ago
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Seimas votes for lifting MP Ručys’ legal immunity

The Seimas of Lithuania on Tuesday lifted the legal immunity of Order and Justice MP Rimas Antanas Ručys, paving the…

10 years ago