The Seimas:
1) shall consider and adopt amendments to the Constitution;
2) shall pass laws;
3) shall adopt resolutions on referendums;
4) shall call elections for the President of the Republic of Lithuania;
5) shall establish state institutions provided for by law, and appoint and release their heads;
6) shall or shall not give its assent to the candidate proposed by the President of the Republic for the post of the Prime Minister;
7) shall consider the programme of the Government, presented by the Prime Minister, and decide whether to give its assent to it;
8) shall, upon the proposal of the Government, establish and abolish the ministries of the Republic of Lithuania;
9) shall supervise the activities of the Government and may express no confidence in the Prime Minister or a Minister;
10) shall appoint the justices and Presidents of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court;
11) shall appoint and release the Auditor General and the Chairperson of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania;
12) shall call elections to municipal councils and elections of municipal mayors;
13) shall form the Central Electoral Commission and alter its composition;
14) shall approve the State Budget and supervise its execution;
15) shall establish state taxes and other compulsory payments;
16) shall ratify and denounce international treaties of the Republic of Lithuania and consider other issues of foreign policy;
17) shall establish the administrative division of the Republic;
18) shall establish the state awards of the Republic of Lithuania;
19) shall issue acts of amnesty;
20) shall impose direct rule and martial law, declare states of emergency, announce mobilisation, and adopt a decision to use the armed forces.