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Lithuania

Lithuania

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Agency responsible for the administration of direct democracy mechanisms
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REFERENDUMLAW

(Adopted 2002; lastamended 2012)

http://www3.lrs.lt/pls/inter3/dokpaieska.showdoc_e?p_id=437744

 

Article 13. Preliminary Examination ofCitizens’ Petition to Call Referendum

1. The Central Electoral Committee shall verify within 15 days thereceived documents on calling the referendum…

 

2. The Central Electoral Committee, having established that thedocuments contain non-essential deficiencies or that very few (up to 0.5 percent) of the citizens’ signatures are missing, shall inform the group thereofand set a 15-day time limit to eliminate these deficiencies. Having eliminatedthese deficiencies over the prescribed period of time, the petition to call areferendum shall be examined further according to general procedure.

 

3. Should the time limit for the implementation ofthe citizens’ right of initiative to call a referendum be violated, therequired number of citizens’ signatures fail to be collected or should it bedetermined that gross violations of the law (falsified citizens’ signatures or a violation of theprinciple of voluntariness in collecting signatures) exist in thesubmitted documents, the CentralElectoral Committee shall refuse the petition to call a referendum,based upon a reasoned decision and inform the group and the Seimas thereof. Thegroup shall have the right to appeal this decision to the SuperiorAdministrative Court of Lithuania within the period of one month.

 

 

LAW ON CITIZENS’ LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVE

(Adopted1998; last amended 2000)

http://www3.lrs.lt/pls/inter3/dokpaieska.showdoc_e?p_id=111993

 

Article12: Vyriausioji rinkimų komisija, gavusi parašų rinkimo lapus su piliečiųparašais, per penkiolika dienų patikrina jų autentiškumą ir pateikia išvadą, arper nustatytą terminą yra surinktas reikiamas parašų skaičius.
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