A group of Lithuanian opposition MPs have unsuccessfully appealed to the Constitutional Court against the government’s decision to include China in the list of unreliable suppliers of software and computer systems.
In their appeal filed in July, the 35 MPs challenged certain provisions of the Law on Public Procurement and the respective government resolution.
In September, the Constitutional Court in September returned the appeal to the signees, stating that they failed to provide legal arguments to support their position.
This was not reported by the media at the time, but on Wednesday the court’s decision was made public by Mindaugas Lingė, chairman of the parliamentary Committee on Budget and Finance.
In their appeal, the opposition MPs said the contested legislation is flawed because it grants the government the right to “exclude a particular market entity from the market without examining its legal situation”, as well as “take decisions on key foreign policy issues (and) determine which countries pose a threat to national security”.
In its resolution adopted on March 30, 2022, the government added China to the list of unreliable countries producing, supplying, and maintaining software and computer systems. It made the decision based on the Public Procurement Law and the National Security Strategy approved by the parliament.
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