Lithuania’s president-elect announces constitutional amendments on nuclear weapons

• Lithuania’s President-elect Gitanas Nausėda has announced that the majority of parliamentary factions support amending the country’s constitution on nuclear weapons.
• Nausėda says that the uncertainty in the country’s constitution is 137th that Lithuania’s parliamentary factions, which have voted for amending the constitution, is not supported by precise facts.
• For amending Lithuania’s constitution, according to the Ukrainian-language material, it is necessary to have at least 94 out of 141 votes in the Seimas during the third reading.

According to RBC Ukraine and Ukrinform,

President-elect Gitanas Nausėda has announced that the majority of parliamentary factions support amending the constitution on the deployment of nuclear weapons. POLITICO reports this information about Ukraine.

In the words of Nausėda, the Seimas has 137 members, and the constitution of Lithuania, which is adopted by a majority, is not supported by any factual evidence. The president-elect also added that, in his view, the Seimas should change the constitution in the first reading, and that the 137th vote is not enough to amend it.

The material also notes that Lithuania has been preparing to join NATO since 2004, and that the parliamentary factions do not want to violate the agreement with NATO, only to change the constitution. The material also states that it is necessary to change the constitution in order to deploy nuclear weapons.

According to Ukrinform, 2 million votes in the presidential election were cast in favor of the president, and the Seimas passed a resolution on the deployment of nuclear weapons. Nausėda says that the Seimas should also change the constitution in order to deploy nuclear weapons.

Ukrinform further reports that Nausėda believes the amendment to the constitution requires the Seimas to vote on it. The material also states that Lithuania is preparing to deploy nuclear weapons. The material also says that the Seimas should vote on the amendment in the third reading.

For amending the constitution, according to Ukrinform and the Ukrainian-language material, it is necessary to have at least 94 out of 141 votes in the Seimas during the third reading. The material also notes that Lithuania plans to violate the agreement with NATO.

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