Lithuanian president to turn to Constitutional Court over election results

The announcement was made after the president's meeting with Algirdas Butkevičius, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania and a potential prime minister.

Meanwhile Butkevičius said a coalition agreement with the Labor Party and the Order and Justice Party would be signed without an annex on specific ministries.

The president's spokeswoman Daiva Ulbinaitė told journalists after the meeting that "following the announcement of the final Seimas election results, a number of complaints over their legitimacy and alleged violation of the Law on Elections to the Seimas were received."

"The president will tomorrow turn to the Constitutional Court and until the Constitutional Court's final evaluation of the Seimas elections is received, the head of state will not evaluate any chances of forming coalitions," Daiva Ulbinaitė said.

Butkevičius hopes the Constitutional Court will issue its ruling on Saturday.

"The Constitutional Court will most probably issue its ruling on Saturday and further political work in the Seimas will be clearer," he said after an almost hour-long meeting with the president.

"I rate it very positively. The Constitutional Court, I believe, will clear all doubts," Butkevičius said.

He said he had not submitted a preliminary list of ministerial candidates to the president and an agreement on the center-left coalition would be signed later in the day without an annex on the distribution of specific ministries.

Butkevičius noted that the decision had nothing to do with the meeting with the president as it had been made at an earlier meeting of the social democratic political group.

"We'll sign a coalition agreement but I can say that there will be no annex on the distribution of ministries," Butkevičius said.

"That's a political decision we have made that we'll still be able to hold some discussions on certain issues. But it has nothing to do with the Presidential Office. We had a meeting of the political group today and during the meeting we expressed certain thoughts about yesterday's talks, and I believe that we’ll still be able to hold discussions looking into the future," he said.

Asked whether there were issues regarding the Ministry of the Interior which is set to be controlled by the Labor Party, Butkevičius said that "discussions are being held on that as well."