Several Causes of the Presidential Crisis in Lithuania
Several Causes of the Presidential Crisis in Lithuania

Summary/Abstract: The impeachment proceedings against President Rolandas Paksas have been widely discussed by political analysts and political scientists in Lithuania and abroad. All of them have been primarily interested in the underlying causes of this crisis. Below are insights identifying the causes of this crisis. We can once again emphasise the trends which were obvious even without a special knowledge of politics. In fact, no artistic-scientific speculation is necessary to see that, in terms of duration, the crisis lasted longer than any other previous jolts in internal politics. Moreover, it broke out in an institution which, by its nature and experience of more than a decade, should have been the most stable pillar of the political system.

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