of a judge of the Biržai District Local Court as well as from the office of the President of the same court subsequent to Item 5 of Article 115 of the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania is not in conflict, as to its content and the procedure of the adoption established in the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania, with the principles of a just civil society and state under the rule of law which are entrenched in the Preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania, Paragraph 1 of Article 29 of the Constitution, consolidating the principle of equality of all persons before the law, Paragraph 1 of Article 31 of the Constitution and Paragraph 2 of Article 6 of the Convention for the Protectionthe Preamble to the Constitution”.

The Constitutional Court

has established:

The Vilnius Regional Court, the petitioner, considered a civil case. By its ruling of 9 March 2004, it suspended the consideration of the case and applied to the Constitutional Court with the petition requesting an investigation into “whether the Decree of the President of the Republic of Lithuania (No. 164) “On Releasing Judges of Local Courts and Presidents of Courts from Office” of 22 July 2003 to the extent that it provides that Palmira Linkevičienė is released from the office of a judge of the Biržai District Local Court as well as from the office of the President of the same court subsequent to Item 5 of Article 115 of the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania is not in conflict,