{"id":20954,"date":"2025-11-21T12:35:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teise.org\/?p=20954"},"modified":"2025-11-21T12:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:36:13","slug":"20251121-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/20251121-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The article examines the compatibility between the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Constitution in the context of the legal capacity requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The journal \u201cAccess to Justice in Eastern Europe\u201d has published an article by Dr Dovil\u0117 P\u016brait\u0117-Andrikien\u0117, a researcher at the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, titled \u201cLegal Capacity and Electoral Rights in Lithuania: The Issue of Compatibility between the Constitution and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.\u201d<\/p>

In her publication, the author draws attention to a persistent problem in Lithuania: persons with disabilities who have been declared legally incapacitated by a court cannot exercise their political rights\u2013namely, the right to vote and to stand for election. In 2010, Lithuania ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (hereinafter \u2013 the Convention), whose Article 29 clearly states that all persons with disabilities have the right not only to vote but also to be elected. However, the implementation of this provision has been challenged by constitutional restrictions: the Lithuanian Constitution explicitly prohibits persons declared legally incapacitated from exercising electoral rights. Thus, it is evident that in order for Lithuania to meet international human rights standards and ensure equality for all persons, adjustments to the legal capacity requirement are necessary. According to Dr D. P\u016brait\u0117-Andrikien\u0117, legislative reforms alone are insufficient to resolve this issue\u2013constitutional amendments would be required.<\/p>

The experience of other EU Member States that have successfully reformed their legal systems to align them with the Convention could serve as further encouragement for Lithuania to initiate discussions on amending the Constitution with regard to the legal capacity requirement.<\/p>

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\u017durnale \u201eAccess to Justice in Eastern Europe\u201c publikuotas Lietuvos socialini\u0173 moksl\u0173 centro Teis\u0117s instituto mokslinink\u0117s dr.\u00a0Dovil\u0117s P\u016brait\u0117s-Andrikien\u0117s parengtas straipsnis \u201eLegal Capacity and Electoral Rights in Lithuania: The Issue of Compatibility between the Constitution and the UN Convention on the Rights Persons with Disabilities\u201c. Autor\u0117 savo publikacijoje atkreipia d\u0117mes\u012f \u012f iki \u0161iol Lietuvoje opi\u0105 problem\u0105\u00a0\u2013 asmenys su negalia, kuriems teismo sprendimu nustatytas neveiksnumas, negali naudotis savo politin\u0117mis teis\u0117mis\u00a0\u2013 balsuoti ir kandidatuoti. 2010\u00a0metais Lietuva ratifikavo Jungtini\u0173 Taut\u0173 ne\u012fgali\u0173j\u0173 teisi\u0173 konvencij\u0105 (toliau ir\u00a0\u2013 Konvencija), kurios 29\u00a0straipsnis ai\u0161kiai \u012ftvirtina, jog visi asmenys su negalia turi teis\u0119 ne tik balsuoti, bet ir b\u016bti renkami. Vis d\u0117lto \u0161ios nuostatos \u012fgyvendinimas susid\u016br\u0117 su konstituciniais apribojimais\u00a0\u2013 Lietuvos Konstitucija numato, kad rinkimuose nedalyvauja pilie\u010diai, kurie teismo pripa\u017einti neveiksniais. Taigi, Lietuva, siekdama \u012fgyvendinti tarptautinius \u017emogaus teisi\u0173 standartus ir u\u017etikrinti lygyb\u0119 visiems pilie\u010diams, tur\u0117t\u0173 atlikti veiksnumo cenzo korekcijas. Ir, anot dr.\u00a0D.\u00a0P\u016brait\u0117s-Andrikien\u0117s, vien \u012fstatym\u0173 pakeitimai \u0161ios problemos nei\u0161spr\u0119st\u0173\u00a0\u2013 tam reikalingos Konstitucijos pataisos. Paskata Lietuvoje diskutuoti d\u0117l Konstitucijos keitimo veiksnumo cenzo aspektu gal\u0117t\u0173 b\u016bti ir kit\u0173 ES valstybi\u0173, s\u0117kmingai reformavusi\u0173 savo teisines sistemas ir suderinusi\u0173 jas su Konvencija, pavyzdys. \u00a0 Su atviros prieigos straipsniu angl\u0173 kalba galima susipa\u017einti \u010dia.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-naujienos","category-268"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20954"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20959,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20954\/revisions\/20959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}