The person of the President of the Republic shall be inviolable: while in office, he may be neither detained nor held criminally or administratively liable.
The President of the Republic may be removed from office only for a gross violation of the Constitution or a breach of the oath, or when he is found to have committed a crime. The issue of the removal of the President of the Republic from office shall be decided by the Seimas according to the procedure for impeachment proceedings.