Press release, 9 July 2024
On Friday, 12 July 2024, a sitting of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania will be held at the Seimas building for President Gitanas Nausėda to take the oath of office. The inauguration ceremony will begin in the Hall of the Act of 11 March at 12 noon.
Gintaras Goda, President of the Constitutional Court, will administer the oath of office to the President of the Republic. Following the oath, Gitanas Nausėda will assume all presidential powers for a new five-year term.
Archbishop Metropolitan of Vilnius, Gintaras Grušas, will deliver the invocation. Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, Speaker of the Seimas, will give a congratulatory speech. The event will conclude with an inaugural address by President Gitanas Nausėda.
Former heads of state, Speakers of Parliament, Members of the Supreme Council – the Reconstituent Seimas, who signed the 11 March Act of Independence of Lithuania, Members of the Government, Members of the European Parliament, municipal mayors, Lithuanian and foreign diplomats, hierarchs of traditional and other state-recognised religious communities and associations, and other distinguished guests have also been invited to attend the inauguration ceremony.
Live streaming of the Seimas sitting with interpretation into English will be available on the Seimas YouTube channel.
Events scheduled to follow the inauguration of President Gitanas Nausėda at the Seimas:
1 pm. – Holy Mass at the Vilnius Cathedral Basilica;
2 pm. – formation of flags and squads of the Lithuanian Armed Forces dedicated to the inauguration ceremony at the Vilnius Cathedral Square;
3 pm. – solemn ceremony for changing the Presidential Flag at Simono Daukanto Square;
4 pm. – ceremony of reinstatement of the powers of the Government at the Presidential Palace;
7 pm. – reception to celebrate the inauguration for the second term in the courtyard of the Presidential Palace.
Rimas Rudaitis, Adviser, Press Office, Information and Communication Department, tel. +370 5 209 6132, e-mail: [email protected]