The Seimas on December 21 failed to strip MP Gapšys of his mandate despite his jail sentence for corruption.
The member of the Labour Party in November was found guilty of bribery and influence peddling in the so-called MG Baltic political corruption case and sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison.
“There has to be some basis for such a claim. Agree on what? Simple logic, why did the Conservatives have to agree on something with the Labour Party?” Šimonytė said on Thursday on TV broadcast “Info komentarai su Arnu Mazėčiu.”
President Nausėda on Wednesday told Delfi TV he suspected that the ruling parties and the Labour Party may have acted in collusion in the impeachment vote.
The prime minister stated it was clear that the opposition’s support was needed for the motion to succeed.
“Eighty-five votes are needed for impeachment. Even if you take the entire ruling coalition, if you count in the people who were sick on Thursday, who gave birth to children and so on, we have 73 votes. This means that, even in theory, the removal of an MP by coalition votes is impossible. I wonder why the president does not question some of the opposition parties, which said that we would vote unanimously in favour of the impeachment of Mr Gapšys, but a large number of them did not cast ballots,” Šimonytė said.
