Lietuviškai
THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF
THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
R U L I N G
On the compliance of the 6 October 1998 Seimas of
the Republic of Lithuania decision to reject a
draft resolution of the Seimas "On Forming a
Special Investigatory Commission" and the 6
October 1998 Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania
Resolution "On the Proposal of a Group of Seimas
Members of 28 September 1998 'On the Initiation of
Impeachment Proceedings Against the Member of the
Seimas Audrius Butkevičius'" with the Constitution
of the Republic of Lithuania, Part 1 of Article
24, Article 238, Parts 1 and 3 of Article 239 and
Articles 241 and 243 of the Statute of the Seimas
of the Republic of Lithuania
Vilnius, 30 March 2000
The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania,
composed of the Judges of the Constitutional Court Egidijus
Jarašiūnas, Egidijus Kūris, Zigmas Levickis, Augustinas
Normantas, Vladas Pavilonis, Jonas Prapiestis, Vytautas
Sinkevičius, Stasys Stačiokas, and Teodora Staugaitienė,
with the secretary of the hearing-Daiva Pitrėnaitė,
in the presence of:
the representative of the petitioner-a group of Seimas
members-Juozas Bernatonis, a Seimas member,
the representative of the party concerned-the Seimas of
the Republic of Lithuania-Audronė Ožiūnienė, a consultant to
the Law Department of the Office of the Seimas,
pursuant to Part 1 of Article 102 of the Constitution of
the Republic of Lithuania and Part 1 of Article 1 of the
Republic of Lithuania Law on the Constitutional Court, on 16
March 2000 in its public hearing conducted the investigation of
Case No. 26/98 subsequent to the petition submitted to the
Court by the petitioner-a group of Seimas of the Republic of
Lithuania members-requesting to investigate if the 6 October
1998 Seimas decision to reject a draft resolution of the Seimas
"On Forming a Special Investigatory Commission" and the 6
October 1998 Seimas Resolution "On the Initiation of
Impeachment Proceedings Against the Member of the Seimas
Audrius Butkevičius" were in compliance with the Constitution
of the Republic of Lithuania and Part VIII of the Statute of
the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania.
The Constitutional Court
has established:
I
On 6 October 1998, the Seimas adopted a decision to reject
a draft resolution of the Seimas "On Forming a Special
Investigatory Commission" (protocol No. 11(237) of the 6
October 1998 Seimas morning plenary meeting; hereinafter also
referred to as the Seimas decision).
On 6 October 1998, the Seimas adopted the Resolution "On
the Proposal of a Group of Seimas Members of 28 September 1998
'On the Initiation of Impeachment Proceedings Against the
Member of the Seimas Audrius Butkevičius'" (Official Gazette
Valstybės žinios, 1998, No. 89-2450; hereinafter also referred
to as the Seimas Resolution) wherein it is provided:
"Taking account of the fact that
in cases when a Seimas member is suspected of commission
of crime, the Seimas must, conforming to Article 24 of the
Statute of the Seimas, choose only one of the following
decisions: to begin preparatory actions for impeachment
proceedings under the procedure established in Part VIII of the
Statute of the Seimas, or to give its consent to bring the
Seimas member to criminal responsibility;
having passed the 19 August 1997 Resolution "On the
Consent to Bring the Member of the Seimas Audrius Butkevičius
to Criminal Responsibility", the Seimas opted for one of the
procedures pointed out in the Statute of the Seimas, i.e. it
consented that the question of culpability of the Seimas member
Audrius Butkevičius be decided in court;
at present the criminal case of the Seimas member is under
investigation in court and that the impeachment proceedings, in
case of their institution, would mean that two state
institutions (i.e. the court and the Seimas) would be deciding
the question of culpability of the Seimas member Audrius
Butkevičius concerning the same accusation;
the question of the mandate of the Seimas member Audrius
Butkevičius may be decided under impeachment proceedings only
after the court has investigated this criminal case and adopted
a decision,
the Seimas has decided:
Article 1.
Not to consider the proposal of a group of Seimas members
of 28 September 1998 "On the Initiation of Impeachment
Proceedings Against the Member of the Seimas Audrius
Butkevičius" wherein the said group of Seimas members did not
charge A. Butkevičius with anything.
Article 2.
This resolution shall go into effect as of its adoption."
The petitioner requests to investigate whether the
decision and the Resolution of the Seimas is in compliance
with the Constitution and Part VIII of the Statute of the
Seimas.
II
The request of the petitioner is based on these arguments.
On 28 September 1998, 44 Seimas members submitted a
proposal to the Seimas "On the Initiation of Impeachment
Proceedings Against the Member of the Seimas Audrius
Butkevičius". Under Article 242 of the Statute of the Seimas
the Chairman or Deputy Chairman of the Seimas shall immediately
present such a proposal to Seimas members and shall, no later
than within one week during the session, submit a proposal to
the Seimas to consider the issue.
Under Article 243 of the Statute of the Seimas, upon
hearing a proposal made by the initiators or their
representative concerning the initiation of impeachment
proceedings against a concrete individual, the Seimas shall
form a commission to investigate the validity and seriousness
of the submitted charges and to prepare the finding concerning
the proposal to initiate impeachment proceedings. In the
opinion of the petitioner, in such a case the Seimas may not
decide independently or choose an alternative but must form
such a commission.
Article 74 of the Constitution provides that impeachment
proceedings shall be established by the Statute of the Seimas,
while Article 76 of the Constitution stipulates that the
structure and procedure of activities of the Seimas shall be
determined by the Statute of the Seimas which shall have the
power of law. The petitioner is of the opinion that the 6
October 1998 Seimas decision to reject a draft resolution of
the Seimas "On Forming a Special Investigatory Commission"
conflicts with Articles 74 and 76 of the Constitution and Part
VIII of the Statute of the Seimas.
On 6 October 1998, the Seimas adopted the decision "On the
Proposal of a Group of Seimas Members of 28 September 1998 'On
the Initiation of Impeachment Proceedings Against the Member of
the Seimas Audrius Butkevičius'" which, according to the
petitioner, is also in conflict with Articles 74 and 76 of the
Constitution.
The petitioner notes that in the disputed legal act the
Seimas was conforming to the provision that under Article 24 of
the Statute of the Seimas, the Seimas has to choose only
between one of the following decisions in cases when a Seimas
member is suspected of commission of crime: to begin
preliminary actions of impeachment proceedings, or to give its
consent to bring the Seimas members to criminal responsibility.
However, Article 24 of the Statute of the Seimas provides for
the procedure for deprivation of the inviolability of the
person of a Seimas member under Article 62 of the Constitution,
while the procedure for impeachment proceedings under Article
74 of the Constitution is regulated by Part VIII Impeachment
Proceedings of the Statute of the Seimas. The analogous legal
norms to Article 24 of the Statute of the Seimas are repeated
in its Article 239, however, Part 2 of Article 238 thereof
provides that the proposal to the Seimas to initiate
impeachment proceedings against a concrete person shall not be
related to the norms of Article 239 of this Statute.
In the opinion of the petitioner, the motive of the
decision of the Seimas that the Seimas already opted for one of
the possible procedures, i.e. it consented to bring the Seimas
member A. Butkevičius to criminal responsibility and,
therefore, it might not consider the issue of the initiation of
impeachment proceedings, conflicts with Articles 74 and 76 of
the Constitution and those articles of the Statute of the
Seimas which provide for the procedure for impeachment
proceedings.
III
In the course of the preparation of the case for the
Constitutional Court hearing, a written explanation of the
representative of the Seimas A. Ožiūnienė, a consultant to the
Law Department of the Office of the Seimas, was received. It is
maintained therein that Article 74 of the Constitution provides
that the procedure for impeachment proceedings shall be
established by the Statute of the Seimas. Article 237 of the
Statute of the Seimas stipulates that there shall be grounds
for initiating impeachment proceedings in the event that an
individual specified in Article 236 of this Statute has: 1)
grossly violated the Constitution; 2) breached an oath; or 3)
is suspected of commission of crime.
The representative of the party concerned maintained that
in cases when a Seimas member is suspected of commission of
crime, Part 1 of Article 24 and Part 3 of Article 239 of the
Statute of the Seimas provide that after the Seimas has heard
the report of the Prosecutor General concerning the crime
committed by a Seimas member, it shall decide whether to form
an investigatory commission for the consent to take criminal
action against a Seimas member, or to initiate preliminary
actions of the impeachment proceedings according to the
procedure established in Part VIII of this Statute. Thus, in
case there is a report of the Prosecutor General concerning the
crime committed by a Seimas member, the Seimas is obligated to
choose between one of these procedures: to begin preliminary
actions for impeachment proceedings under the procedure
established in Part VIII of the Statute of the Seimas, or to
give its consent to bring the Seimas member to criminal
responsibility.
On 19 August 1997, conforming to Part 2 of Article 62 of
the Constitution, taking account of the 14 August 1997 proposal
of the Prosecutor General concerning the consent of the Seimas
to bring the Seimas member A. Butkevičius to criminal
responsibility and the 18 August 1997 reference of the Seimas
Provisional Investigatory Commission, the Seimas adopted the
Resolution "On the Consent to Bring the Seimas Member Audrius
Butkevičius to Criminal Responsibility", i.e. it opted for one
of the alternative procedures provided for in the Statute of
the Seimas: it decided that the question whether the Seimas
member A. Butkevičius has committed a crime would be
investigated by investigatory bodies and the court.
The representative of the party concerned noted that the
Statute of the Seimas does not provide that after the Seimas
has adopted a decision to allow to bring a Seimas member to
criminal responsibility (especially as the criminal case is
already investigated in court), at the same time preparatory
actions for impeachment proceedings might be performed or the
impeachment proceedings be conducted in the Seimas. In the
opinion of the representative of the party concerned, the
provisions of the Statute of the Seimas are worded in
accordance with the principle that two state institutions, i.e.
the Seimas and bodies of law and order (courts) may not
investigate the actions performed by a Seimas member
simultaneously, as this would be incompatible with the Code of
Criminal Proceedings, the Law on Courts and other laws, and
this would also impede the investigation.
According to the representative of the party concerned,
the statement of the petitioner that the motive presented in
the resolution part of the Seimas decision whereby the group of
Seimas members did not charge the Seimas member A. Butkevičius
with anything is in conflict with Article 74 of the
Constitution and the Statute of the Seimas is legally
unmotivated. Article 74 of the Constitution names various
subjects that may be removed from office or the Seimas member
mandate of whom be revoked under the procedure for impeachment
proceedings, and also provides as to what majority of votes is
required in order to perform this (by three-fifths majority
vote of all the Seimas members). Article 74 of the Constitution
does not provide for any particular procedure for impeachment
proceedings, therefore this article says nothing about
presenting accusations against a Seimas member, either. Article
74 of the Constitution provides that the procedure for
impeachment proceedings shall be established by the Statute of
the Seimas. Thus, the comparison of the provisions of the
Seimas decision with Article 74 of the Constitution by the
petitioner is legally groundless.
The representative of the party concerned noted that under
Article 241 of the Statute of the Seimas, the initiators'
proposal to initiate impeachment proceedings must indicate the
concrete person, the charge formulated against the said person,
arguments, major facts, and evidence or sources thereof. An
analysis of Articles 235, 237, 239 and 240 permits to assert
that a group of Seimas members initiating impeachment
proceedings must charge the Seimas member with commission of
one of the actions at the presence of which there occurs the
basis for impeachment proceedings. The group of Seimas members
must also formulate the charge. The references alone that the
Seimas member was charged by institutions of law and order are
not sufficient. The specific character of impeachment
proceedings as a special procedure is determined by the fact
that no one else but Seimas members assess the actions of the
Seimas member, qualify them as grossly violating the
Constitution, breaching the oath or as permitting to assert
that there are suspicions that he has committed a crime, and
charge the Seimas member with commission of the said concrete
actions (it goes without saying, the formulation of the charges
presented by the group of Seimas members may or may not
coincide with those presented by institutions of law and
order).
In the opinion of the representative of the party
concerned, the 6 October 1998 Seimas decision to reject a draft
resolution of the Seimas "On Forming a Special Investigatory
Commission" and the 6 October 1998 Seimas Resolution "On the
Initiation of Impeachment Proceedings Against the Member of the
Seimas Audrius Butkevičius" are in compliance with the
Constitution and Part VIII of the Statute of the Seimas.
IV
In the Constitutional Court hearing the representative of
the petitioner virtually reiterated the arguments set down in
the request of the petitioner.
In the Constitutional Court hearing the representative of
the party concerned virtually reiterated the arguments set down
in her written explanations.
The Constitutional Court
holds that:
1. The petitioner-a group of Seimas members-requests to
investigate whether the 6 October 1998 Seimas decision to
reject a draft resolution of the Seimas "On Forming a Special
Investigatory Commission" and the 6 October 1998 Seimas
Resolution "On the Initiation of Impeachment Proceedings
Against the Member of the Seimas Audrius Butkevičius" are in
compliance with the Constitution and Part VIII of the Statute
of the Seimas.
In the argumentative part of the petition, the petitioner
points out that, in his opinion, the Seimas decision and the
Seimas Resolution conflict with Articles 74 and 76 of the
Constitution, Part 1 of Article 24, Article 238, Parts 1 and 3
of Article 239 and Articles 241 and 243 of the Statute of the
Seimas which regulate the preparatory actions for impeachment
proceedings.
It needs to be noted that the Seimas amended the Statute
of the Seimas by the 22 December 1998 Statute of the Seimas "On
Amendment of the Statute" and set it forth in a new wording.
Taking account of the motives set down in the request of the
petitioner, the Constitutional Court will investigate whether
the Seimas decision and Seimas Resolution are in compliance
with Articles 74 and 76 of the Constitution and Part 1 of
Article 24, Article 238, Parts 1 and 3 of Article 239 and
Articles 241 and 243 of the Statute of the Seimas which were in
effect at the moment of the adoption of the said decision and
resolution.
2. The constitutional bases for impeachment proceedings
are established in Article 74 of the Constitution. It is
established in this article that "for gross violation of the
Constitution, breach of oath, or upon the disclosure of the
commission of crime, the Seimas may, by three-fifths majority
vote of all the Seimas members, remove from office the
President of the Republic, the Chairperson and judges of the
Constitutional Court, the Chairperson and judges of the Supreme
Court, the Chairperson and judges of the Court of Appeal, as
well as Seimas members, or may revoke their mandate of Seimas
member. Such actions shall be carried out in accordance with
the procedure for impeachment proceedings which shall be
established by the Statute of the Seimas".
The provision of Article 74 of the Constitution "the
procedure for impeachment proceedings which shall be
established by the Statute of the Seimas" establishes the
discretion of the Seimas in this area. Article 74 of the
Constitution provides for several bases for impeachment. In its
11 May 1999 ruling, interpreting the said article of the
Constitution, the Constitutional Court noted that the Statute
of the Seimas may establish such a procedure for impeachment so
that it would take into consideration the differences of the
constitutional bases for impeachment.
3. Deciding whether the Seimas decision or the Seimas
Resolution was in conformity with the Statute of the Seimas, it
is important to determine the content of Articles 24, 238 and
239 of the Statute of the Seimas and the interrelation of the
contents of these articles. It is possible to do so by applying
various methods of construction of legal norms, and, first of
all, the systematic method.
Part 1 of Article 24 of the Statute of the Seimas then
provided that "after the Seimas has heard the report of the
Prosecutor General concerning the crime committed by a Seimas
member, it shall decide whether to form an investigatory
commission for the consent to take criminal action against a
Seimas member, or to initiate preliminary actions of the
impeachment proceedings according to the procedure established
in Part VIII of this Statute".
Under then in effect Part 1 of Article 238 of the Statute
of the Seimas, the right to request the initiation of
impeachment proceedings against a concrete individual was
granted to a group of Seimas members consisting of at least 1/4
of all of the Seimas members, the President of the Republic,
and, if the case concerned the Chairperson or judges of the
Constitutional Court and the Chairperson or judges of the Court
of Appeal, this right was granted to the Court of Honour of
Judges.
Part 2 of Article 238 of the Statute of the Seimas then
contained the provision that "the proposal to the Seimas to
initiate impeachment proceedings against a concrete person
shall not be related to the norms of Article 239 of this
Statute".
Part 1 of Article 239 of the Statute of the Seimas then
contained the provision that "upon establishing that persons
referred to in Article 236 of this Statute are suspected of
having committed a crime, the Prosecutor General of the
Republic of Lithuania shall immediately inform the Seimas
thereon and submit appropriate material thereto". Part 3 of
Article 239 of the Statute of the Seimas then contained the
provision that "upon hearing the Prosecutor General's report on
a crime committed by other persons, the Seimas shall decide
whether to give its approval to institute legal action against
the concrete person (according to the procedure provided for in
this Statute) or to initiate preliminary actions for
impeachment proceedings".
Thus Article 239 of the Statute provided as to what
actions the Prosecutor General had to perform when he
established that the persons referred to in Article 236 of this
Statute were suspected of having committed a crime: he had to
immediately inform the Seimas thereon and submit appropriate
material thereto. In addition, Article 239 established as to
what decisions the Seimas had to adopt, upon hearing the
Prosecutor General's report, i.e. the Seimas had to choose
between two possibilities: either to give its consent to bring
the concrete person to criminal responsibility or to begin
preparatory actions for impeachment proceedings.
4. In the context of the case at issue it is important to
determine the content of the wording "shall not be related to
the norms of Article 239 of this Statute" set down in then in
effect Part 2 of Article 238 of the Statute of the Seimas.
Article 239 of the Statute of the Seimas regulated such a
legal situation when about a crime committed by a Seimas member
the Seimas was informed by the Prosecutor General. In such a
case the Seimas had to decide whether to give its consent to
bring the Seimas member to criminal responsibility or to begin
preparatory actions for impeachment proceedings.
The wording "shall not be related to the norms of Article
239 of this Statute" then employed in Part 2 of Article 238 of
the Statute of the Seimas is to be interpreted as establishing
at that time the right of the indicated subjects to initiate
impeachment proceedings against the Seimas member who was
suspected of having committed a crime in case of the absence of
the Prosecutor General's report on a crime committed by the
Seimas member.
5. On 6 October 1998 the Seimas adopted a decision to
reject a draft resolution of the Seimas "On Forming a Special
Investigatory Commission".
In accordance with then in effect Part 1 of Article 24 and
Part 3 of Article 239 of the Statute of the Seimas, upon
hearing the Prosecutor General's report on a crime committed by
a Seimas member, the Seimas had to adopt one of these
decisions: either to give its consent to bring the Seimas
member to criminal responsibility or to begin preliminary
actions for impeachment proceedings. Then in effect Article 243
of the Statute of the Seimas provided that a special
investigatory commission was to be formed only in case the
Seimas decides to begin preparatory actions for impeachment
proceedings.
When it is decided whether the Seimas decision was in
conformity with the Statute of the Seimas, the fact is of
essential importance that the Seimas, adopting its 19 August
1997 Resolution "On the Consent to Bring the Member of the
Seimas Audrius Butkevičius to Criminal Responsibility", opted
for one of the procedures pointed out in the Statute of the
Seimas, i.e. it gave its consent to bring the Seimas member A.
Butkevičius to criminal responsibility. Alongside, the Seimas
decided that the actual circumstances of commission of crime
would be investigated by law institutions-the investigatory
bodies and the court-but not a special commission formed by the
Seimas.
As mentioned, the provisions of then in effect Part 1 of
Article 24 and Part 3 of Article 239 of the Statute of the
Seimas pre-supposed the fact that in case the Seimas adopts a
decision to allow to bring a Seimas member to criminal
responsibility because of the commission of crime, then the
impeachment proceedings against the said person were not to be
instituted until the question of his criminal liability was
decided, i.e. after the court has adopted a judgement of
acquittal, or an effective judgement of conviction or when has
dismissed the case.
It is evident that in case it was impossible to begin
impeachment proceedings under the Statute of the Seimas, then
it was impossible to form a special investigatory commission,
as under then in effect Article 243 of the Statute of the
Seimas such a commission might be formed only in case the
Seimas decided to begin preparatory actions for impeachment
proceedings.
Taking account of the aforesaid motives, one is to
conclude that the 6 October 1998 Seimas decision to reject a
draft resolution of the Seimas "On Forming a Special
Investigatory Commission" was in compliance with Part 1 of
Article 24 and Part 3 of Article 239 of the Statute of the
Seimas.
Under Article 74 of the Constitution, the procedure for
impeachment proceedings shall be established by the Statute of
the Seimas. The Seimas decision to reject a draft resolution of
the Seimas "On Forming a Special Investigatory Commission" was
in compliance with the Statute of the Seimas which was then in
effect. When these circumstances are taken account of, there
are not any grounds to assert that the Seimas decision is in
conflict with Article 74 of the Constitution.
6. On 6 October 1998, the Seimas adopted Resolution "On
the Initiation of Impeachment Proceedings Against the Member of
the Seimas Audrius Butkevičius".
As mentioned, in accordance with then in effect Part 1 of
Article 24 and Part 3 of Article 239 of the Statute of the
Seimas, upon hearing the Prosecutor General's report on a crime
committed by a Seimas member, the Seimas had to adopt one of
these decisions: either to give its consent to bring the Seimas
member to criminal responsibility or to begin preliminary
actions for impeachment proceedings. Such legal regulation
pre-supposed the fact that the Seimas could not begin
preparatory actions for impeachment proceedings until the
question of his criminal liability was decided, i.e. after the
court has adopted a judgement of acquittal, or an effective
judgement of conviction or when has dismissed the case. On 19
August 1997, the Seimas adopted Resolution "On the Consent to
Bring the Member of the Seimas Audrius Butkevičius to Criminal
Responsibility". Thus, having adopted the resolution permitting
to bring the Seimas member to criminal responsibility, the
Seimas could not begin preparatory actions for impeachment
proceedings until the question of his criminal liability was
decided by law institutions-investigatory bodies and the court.
Therefore the 6 October 1998 Seimas Resolution "On the Proposal
of a Group of Seimas Members of 28 September 1998 'On the
Initiation of Impeachment Proceedings Against the Member of the
Seimas Audrius Butkevičius'" was in compliance with then in
effect Part 1 of Article 24, Article 238 and Part 3 of Article
239 of the Statute of the Seimas.
Under Article 74 of the Constitution, the procedure for
impeachment proceedings shall be established by the Statute of
the Seimas. The 6 October 1998 Seimas Resolution "On the
Proposal of a Group of Seimas Members of 28 September 1998 'On
the Initiation of Impeachment Proceedings Against the Member of
the Seimas Audrius Butkevičius'" was in compliance with the
Statute of the Seimas which was then in effect. When the
aforesaid circumstances are taken into consideration, there is
not any ground to assert that the said Seimas resolution
conflicts with Article 74 of the Constitution.
7. It is maintained in the petition of Seimas members that
the 6 October 1998 Seimas decision to reject a draft resolution
of the Seimas "On Forming a Special Investigatory Commission"
and the 6 October 1998 Seimas Resolution "On the Proposal of a
Group of Seimas Members of 28 September 1998 'On the Initiation
of Impeachment Proceedings Against the Member of the Seimas
Audrius Butkevičius'" are in conflict with Article 76 of the
Constitution.
Article 76 of the Constitution provides that "the
structure and procedure of activities of the Seimas shall be
determined by the Statute of the Seimas. The Statute of the
Seimas shall have the power of law".
A blanket norm is set down in this article of the
Constitution which permits the Seimas to establish its
structure, procedure of its activities, procedures for
presentation of draft laws and other draft legal acts, their
deliberation and adoption, the competence of other structural
sub-units of the Seimas and to regulate the other issues of
functioning of the Seimas. Under Article 76 of the
Constitution, this must be established in the Statute of the
Seimas which shall have the power of law.
Taking account of the fact that Article 76 of the
Constitution does not provide for the procedure for initiation
of impeachment, one is to conclude that the 6 October 1998
Seimas decision to reject a draft resolution of the Seimas "On
Forming a Special Investigatory Commission" and the 6 October
1998 Seimas Resolution "On the Proposal of a Group of Seimas
Members of 28 September 1998 'On the Initiation of Impeachment
Proceedings Against the Member of the Seimas Audrius
Butkevičius'" are in compliance with Article 76 of the
Constitution.
Conforming to Article 102 of the Constitution of the
Republic of Lithuania and Articles 53, 54, 55 and 56 of the
Republic of Lithuania Law on the Constitutional Court, the
Constitutional Court has passed the following
ruling:
To recognise that the 6 October 1998 Seimas of the
Republic of Lithuania decision to reject a draft resolution of
the Seimas "On Forming a Special Investigatory Commission" and
the 6 October 1998 Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania
Resolution "On the Proposal of a Group of Seimas Members of 28
September 1998 'On the Initiation of Impeachment Proceedings
Against the Member of the Seimas Audrius Butkevičius'" are in
compliance with Part 1 of Article 24, Article 238, Parts 1 and
3 of Article 239 and Articles 241 and 243 of the Statute of the
Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania which were in effect at the
time of the adoption of the said decision and resolution, as
well as in conformity with the Constitution of the Republic of
Lithuania.
This Constitutional Court ruling is final and not subject
to appeal.
The ruling is promulgated on behalf of the Republic of
Lithuania.