It will be examined in the oral procedure at a public hearing.
“(The hearing is scheduled – BNS) first of all, statements, the questioning of witnesses, and then the discussions of the parties”, the press representative of the Constitutional Court, Giedrė Maksimaitytė, told BNS.
On November 21 last year, the Seimas decided to start impeachment once morest R. Žemaitaičis, a member of the Mixed Seimas Group, for his anti-Semitic statements and asked the Constitutional Court to assess whether the parliamentarian’s statements contradict the Constitution.
The CT should prepare the final conclusion within a month.
R. Žemaitaitis, as well as the chairman of the Seimas impeachment commission conservative Arūnas Valinskas, advisers of the Seimas Chancellery Vita Vaitekūnė, Indrė Žukauskaitė, senior advisor of the Legal Department of the Seimas Chancellery Viktorija Staugaitytė, senior advisor of the Public Law Department of the Legal Department Ona Buišienė are invited to the CT meeting.
Specialists are also invited to the meeting: Laimutis Laužikas, lecturer at the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University, Jūratė Ruzaitė, professor at the Faculty of Humanities at Vytautas the Great University, Monika Frėjutė-Rakauskienė, head of the Ethnic Research Department of the Institute of Sociology of the Lithuanian Social Sciences Center.
Dr. Nerijus Šepetys, associate professor of the Faculty of History of Vilnius University, Linas Venclauskas, lecturer of the Faculty of Humanities of Vytautas Magnus University, Greta Baltikauskaitė, coordinator of the legal programs of the Human Rights Monitoring Institute, should also participate in the meeting.
In the opinion of the Seimas, on May 8, May 9, June 13 and June 14 of last year, R. Žemaitaitis published anti-Semitic, national discord-inciting posts on the social network Facebook and public information tools, and with such actions, he possibly broke the oath of a member of the Seimas and grossly violated the Constitution.
The conclusion of the special commission approved by the Seimas states that R. Žemaitaitis disregarded the requirements of the Seimas member’s oath, its constitutional status, the principle of responsible governance, the requirements arising from the Constitution, that inciting national, racial, religious or social hatred, coercion and discrimination, defamation and misinformation are incompatible. with freedom of expression.
R. Žemaitaitis calls the impeachment commission of the Seimas illegal and the accusations once morest him absurd.
If the Constitutional Court finds that the member of the Seimas grossly violated the Constitution and broke the oath, the parliament should vote on the cancellation of the mandate of R. Žemaitaitis.
The Attorney General’s Office, in turn, conducts a pre-trial investigation into public contempt and incitement to hatred once morest any nation, race, ethnic, religious or other group of people. In February, the Parliament revoked R. Žemaitaitis’ legal immunity so that prosecutors might file charges once morest him.
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2024-03-31 12:59:35
