RESOLUTION

RESOLUTION RESOLUTION ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LAW ON ELECTIONS TO THE SEIMAS OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA The Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania resolves:

1. Earlier registered political parties shall register for elections to the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania by presenting to the Ministry of Justice a party's application to register for elections approved by the supreme body of the party according to its regulations. The Ministry of Justice must within 3 days verify whether the number of members and documents of the party correspond to the requirements of the Law on Political Parties, and register the party for elections, or demand to present documents which are missing or which have been changed from the day of the registration. After receiving the requisite documents, the Ministry of Justice must no later than within 3 days adopt a decision on the registration of the political party. The refusal to register the political party for elections may be appealed to the Supreme Court of the Republic of Lithuania. The Supreme Court shall consider the complain according to an extraordinary legal procedure within 3 days.
2. To obligate the Legal System Committee of the Supreme Council to prepare amendments to and supplements of laws of the Republic of Lithuania which provide for stricter penalties imposed for the violations of the Law on Elections to the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania.
3. A candidate for the Seimas deputy shall have the right of access to the material which concerns him and which was formerly disposed of by the KGB if the fact of existence of such material is announced publicly.
4. Any information about a candidate for the Seimas deputy available to the Ad Hos Committee for the Investigation of the USSR KGB Activities in Lithuania may be announced publicly from the day of the adoption of this resolution until elections to the Seimas only when the decision is adopted by two-thirds majority vote of all members of the Committee. Such a candidate must be provided with the possibility to be allotted 5 minutes of the state television time for an explanatory statement. An individual member of the Committee shall have no right to announce any information about candidates to the Seimas deputies which is known to him.
5. To explain that the activities specified in Article 5 of the Law "On the Examination of Mandates of the Deputies Suspected of Conscious Cooperation with Special Services of Other States" shall be considered as conscious cooperation of a candidate with the KGB or other foreign special services. VYTAUTAS LANDSBERGIS President Supreme Council Republic of Lithuania Vilnius 4 August 1992 No. I-2820