MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis of the Order and Justice Party told BNS that the task group was now working on the text of a respective parliamentary resolution.
“The government was in charge of the facility’s project hence it shall specify the legislative acts that should be suspended so as to avoid claims from investors pertaining to legal expectations, loss of some revenues,” he said.
Liberal MP Petras Auštrevičius told BNS that the government should submit its opinion to parliament by May at the earliest.
Some 52.58 percent of eligible Lithuania‘s voters cast ballots in the 14 October referendum on building a new nuclear facility in Lithuania. Almost two-thirds, or 62.68 percent, of people who cast ballots said "no" to the nuclear project. The referendum was advisory rather than binding.
The outgoing coalition government, made up of the Conservatives and the Liberals, planned to build the new nuclear facility in Visaginas by around 2020. A draft of the facility’s concession agreement was approved in May and the agreement was planned to be signed by the end of this year.
PM-designate and Social Democratic leader, Algirdas Butkevičius, said early in November that a legislative act stating that the nuclear power plant should not be built would have to be worked out in the Seimas (parliament) as a follow-up to the people’s will expressed in the referendum.
