“The powers of a Member of the Seimas shall cease: 1) upon the expiry of the term of powers, or when the Seimas elected in an early election convenes for the first sitting; 2) upon his death; 3) upon his resignation; 4) when he is declared by a court to be legally incapacitated; 5) when the Seimas revokes his mandate according to the procedure for impeachment proceedings; 6) when the election is declared invalid, or the law on election is grossly violated; 7) when he takes up or does not give up employment that is incompatible with the duties of a Member of the Seimas; 8) when he loses his citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania.”
The article lists eight grounds on which the powers of a Member of the Seimas cease: expiry of the term or the first sitting of a Seimas elected early, death, resignation, being declared legally incapacitated, revocation of the mandate by impeachment, invalid elections, incompatible employment and loss of citizenship.
A Member of the Seimas appointed Minister or elected to another post incompatible with the mandate must choose: if he does not give up the new job, his powers in the Seimas cease. Likewise the mandate is lost if the Member resigns or loses Lithuanian citizenship.
Questions usually ask you to identify which ground terminates a Member's powers, so learn all eight. Note that the mandate is revoked by impeachment by the Seimas itself, whereas legal incapacity is declared by a court.
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