World Lithuanian Community Proposes Recognizing the Preservation of Citizenship as a Matter of National Security

“The Seimas and World Lithuanian Community Commission has prepared a resolution proposing recognizing the preservation of Lithuanian citizenship acquired at birth as a matter of national security.

 

“It (Lithuania – ELTA) especially needs as many civic, patriotic and active citizens as possible, whose voice would be heard in the states that are Lithuania’s strategic partners, because only those who have the citizenship of those states are heard in them. More than a thousand Lithuanian citizens continue to lose their Lithuanian citizenship every year after acquiring the citizenship of another republic,” – commission member Tomas Girnius presented the resolution at a press conference.

 

“Only citizenship is a full-fledged, constitutionally established connection of a citizen with the state, encompassing not only rights but also duties: to defend Lithuania, to perform compulsory military service. It is important to recognize the preservation of Lithuanian citizenship acquired at birth as a matter of Lithuanian national security,” he emphasized.

 

As announced, this week the Seimas and World Lithuanian Community Commission examined Lithuanian diaspora policy issues in parliament. Members of the Seimas, the World Lithuanian Community, representatives of various institutions and organizations, experts and the public were invited to the meetings.

 

ELTA reminds that the referendum held in early May 2024 on the amendment to the Constitution, which sought to expand the possibility of dual citizenship, was not successful.

 

According to the CEC, 1 million 413 thousand 288 voters or 58.96 percent participated in the referendum. The amendment to the Constitution on the preservation of citizenship was approved by 1 million 26 thousand 408 voters (74.13 percent), but this number of votes was not enough to adopt the amendment.

 

In order for the amendment to the Constitution to be adopted, at least half of the population with the right to vote must vote for it.

 

The referendum held in Lithuania in 2019 on the preservation of citizenship also suffered a fiasco.”

 

This is a strange fiasco: the majority votes for dual citizenship, but there is no communist unanimity of the nation. So many years have passed since the times of communism in Lithuania, but we still cannot get rid of communist methods of governance and the elite does not stop stealing. The elite that creates such an order simply openly mocks, but asks us to defend their stolen wealth.