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2013 10 02

Lithuanian parliament rejects prosecutor general's report

Lithuanian parliamentarians on Tuesday voted against the report of operations of the prosecution system. The parliamentary Committee for Legal Affairs has been authorized to draft a resolution, suggesting to sack Prosecutor General Darius Valys from office.
Darius Valys
Darius Valys / Juliaus Kalinsko / 15min nuotr.

The draft resolution, which proposed rejecting the report, was supported by 72 parliamentarians, 18 were against and 12 abstained.

Some 60 MPs were in support of the parliamentary committee preparing a draft resolution to fire the prosecutor general, while six were against and another six abstained.

During the spring session, the parliament adopted amendments to the Seimas Statute, allowing to sack the head of the institutions whose reports of operations are rejected.

"Serious signal"

Lithuania's Prosecutor General Darius Valys says he sees the parliament's disapproval of prosecution operations as a "serious signal," but says he hasn't heard any specific reproaches for making a "drastic decision."

"As a specialist, I have not heard a single figure from my report, a doubt in the figure or any questions in connection to the report. I only heard about specific cases and the decisions in the cases that some find unacceptable," Valys told journalists after parliament voted down the report of prosecution operations.

Asked whether he plans to step down, the prosecutor general said: "There is an appointment procedure, there is a discharge procedure." Asked whether he still enjoys the president's support, he gave a brief reply: "Let's wait and see."

"I view it as a serious signal about the operations of the prosecution system, but to make a drastic decision I need more data," said Valys in comment of his work after parliament gave a negative opinion about the operations of the institution under his command.

No new prosecutors

Meanwhile the Lithuanian parliamentary Committee for Legal Affairs is alarmed by the fact that not a single new prosecutor came to the system of the Prosecutor General's Office over the past year, says the committee's chairman Julius Sabatauskas.

Sabatauskas spoke during a parliamentary discussion of the report of system's 2012 operations, which was rejected.

"Over the past year, no new prosecutors came to the Prosecutor General's Office, a fact the committee finds alarming. Some 51 prosecutors left the prosecution system over the period, including 11 who did not want to take new posts after restructuring," said the head of the committee.

In his words, 36 prosecutors retired due to old age over the period.

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