RESOLUTION
ON THE IMPLEMENTATION
OF THE LAW ON ELECTIONS TO THE SEIMAS
OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
The Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania resolves:
1. Earlier registered political parties shall register for
elections to the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania by
presenting to the Ministry of Justice a party's application to
register for elections approved by the supreme body of the party
according to its regulations. The Ministry of Justice must within
3 days verify whether the number of members and documents of the
party correspond to the requirements of the Law on Political
Parties, and register the party for elections, or demand to
present documents which are missing or which have been changed
from the day of the registration. After receiving the requisite
documents, the Ministry of Justice must no later than within 3
days adopt a decision on the registration of the political party.
The refusal to register the political party for elections
may be appealed to the Supreme Court of the Republic of
Lithuania. The Supreme Court shall consider the complain
according to an extraordinary legal procedure within 3 days.
2. To obligate the Legal System Committee of the Supreme
Council to prepare amendments to and supplements of laws of the
Republic of Lithuania which provide for stricter penalties
imposed for the violations of the Law on Elections to the Seimas
of the Republic of Lithuania.
3. A candidate for the Seimas deputy shall have the right of
access to the material which concerns him and which was formerly
disposed of by the KGB if the fact of existence of such material
is announced publicly.
4. Any information about a candidate for the Seimas deputy
available to the Ad Hos Committee for the Investigation of the
USSR KGB Activities in Lithuania may be announced publicly from
the day of the adoption of this resolution until elections to the
Seimas only when the decision is adopted by two-thirds majority
vote of all members of the Committee. Such a candidate must be
provided with the possibility to be allotted 5 minutes of the
state television time for an explanatory statement. An individual
member of the Committee shall have no right to announce any
information about candidates to the Seimas deputies which is
known to him.
5. To explain that the activities specified in Article 5 of
the Law "On the Examination of Mandates of the Deputies Suspected
of Conscious Cooperation with Special Services of Other States"
shall be considered as conscious cooperation of a candidate with
the KGB or other foreign special services.
VYTAUTAS LANDSBERGIS
President
Supreme Council
Republic of Lithuania
Vilnius
4 August 1992
No. I-2820