Bilingual voting cards. Inconsistent with Constitution?

EAPL proposed to print voting cards for presidential, parliamentary and local elections in national miniorities’ languages – portal delfi.lt informed.

Starost of EAPL Rita Tamašunienė suggested that voting cards should be bilingual in electoral districts, where national minorities represent 10% of population.

„Current electroal acts binding on Lithuania state, that electoral information can be distributed only in official national language. It has an impact on electoral activity and voter turnout” –  R. Tamašunienė wrote in argumentation. As an example she instanced that during the European Union membership referendum electoral information was also available in languages of national minorities.

 Parliamentary Department of Law and Department of European Law accented, that this initiative can be inconsistent with Constitution.

Source: http://zw.lt/litwa/dwujezyczne-karty-glosowania-niezgodne-z-konstytucja/

Tłumaczenie by Aleksandra Szcześniak w ramach praktyk w Europejskiej Fundacji Praw Człowieka, www.efhr.eu. Translated by Aleksandra Szcześniak within the framework of a traineeship programme of the European Foundation of Human Rights, www.efhr.eu.