A no-confidence was short of votes, as a draft resolution requires at least 71 votes in support of removing Šimašius from the post. Meanwhile, merely 64 of Lithuania's 141 parliamentarians were present at the Tuesday's ballot.
The interpellation against the justice minister was filed in mid-April by 29 MPs who submitted five questions. These focused on the judicial reform, situation in imprisonment institutions, performance of the State Forensic Service, handover of data of political activist Ales Belyatsky to Belarus, and the situation in Garliava.
2012 05 08
Lithuania's justice minister keeps post after failed no-confidence vote
Lithuania's Justice Minister Remigijus Šimašius keeps his post after Tusday's vote in the parliament that failed to muster enough support in a secret interpellation ballot.
Remigijus Šimašius / Juliaus Kalinsko / 15min nuotr.
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