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I. Šimonytė was born in 1974. November 15 In Vilnius in the family of civil servants. Part of the woman’s childhood was spent with her parents in the Žirmūnai district of the capital.
At age 10 he moved with his family to Antakalnis, where he still lives. I. Šimonytė often names this neighborhood as his favorite.
When I was little “The technique was more interesting to him”
As a child, as she has said, I. Šimonytė preferred to exchange dolls for constructors, because “the technique was more interesting for her”. Therefore, it is not surprising that a woman in her childhood unknowingly rebelled against her mother’s attempt to turn her into a “feminine” child.
“Mom, I think, I really wanted me to be a real girl, with clean braids, dolls and shoes. And I needed something more. I enjoyed riding my bike, playing busy games, writing very ugly and lacking diligence in crafts,” recalled the childhood politician in an interview with Moteris magazine.
The irony is that later, as a teenager, a woman voluntarily learns to learn “more feminine” activities – knitting, sewing, embroidery – because she “wanted to dress better.”
The attitude that I. Šimonytė is not a woman accompanies her in her life, but politics itself is surprised by such comments from people. In 2013, he received the Man of the Year award at the Golden Onion Awards. Such “evaluation” puzzled I. Šimonytė.
“I wouldn’t say it was very fun to get an evaluation like that. I don’t know what they meant. Does the mere fact that you confirm with your qualities some clichés that someone once built to describe gender, does it already mean that you are male or female? ”- I. Šimonytė was surprised in the same interview.
If it weren’t for Sąjūdis, I wouldn’t be an economist
After graduating from the Vilnius University Faculty of Economics, I. Šimonytė went to the Ministry of Finance, where he began working as an economist. And the economic studies, according to the politicians, were “provoked by the times.”
“Sąjūdis. It was all very interesting. It was 1987-1988, there was a discussion about how we would live here as fast as we did in Sweden. I didn’t understand anything so many people were talking about, but I was very curious. And I decided to go into the economy, ”I. Šimonytė told the portal in 15 minutes.
True, not all relatives supported the woman’s desire to become an economist: her mother offered her daughter to choose the path of medicine.
“The relatives were discouraged, they were offered to study better English or medicine. Mom especially wanted me to be a doctor, but she was afraid of blood. It is true, now I am no longer afraid, life has gotten used to it, but then I was afraid, ”I. Šimonyt” told the magazine “Žmonės”.
She later became a secretary in the Ministry of Finance, responsible not only for taxes but also for auditing, accounting and reporting matters. in summer, and for the Fiscal Policy Department.
2009-2012 I. Šimonytė was the Minister of Finance in the Government of Andrius Kubilius. And you match me in such a way that I. Šimonytė opened him to power during the economic crisis. It is true that she herself does not regret it.
“It just came to our attention then. It is even easier to work during a crisis. Difficulties bring everyone together, everyone agrees to take on a certain part of the burden, because they see that it is happening all over the world and that Kubilius is not to blame for it. ”I. Šimonytė told“ Moteris ”magazine.
2013 He started teaching at Vilnius University and then became a member of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania.
2016 I. Šimonytė, together with the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party-National Union, joined the Seimas and became the Chairman of the Audit Committee. I. Šimonytė was not and is not a member of the TS-LKD party.
2019 I. Šimonytė, with the support of TS-LKD, ran for the presidency of the Republic of Lithuania, where in the second round he obtained 32.86 percent. votes, they descended on Gitan Nausėda.
This year, she was re-elected to the Seimas for a second term and nominated by President Gitanas Nausėda as prime minister.
No one has conquered the heart yet
46-year-old I. Šimonytė has yet to start a family, but he doesn’t make it a tragedy and looks at this issue with slight irony.
“I will never get married, I will not have children and I myself will be a wonderful lady,” I. Šimonytė joked about the KK2 program.
It is true, he added there that he does not rule out meeting someone with whom he can share his life.
“I just didn’t have a person with whom I could share the joys and sorrows of my life. I have not yet been able to accept such a person, but I do not rule out that I still can. There is still a lot of time, ”said the Seimas member.
However, I. Šimonytė once received an offer from a man to marry, but he refused.
“The fact that those decisions are taken seriously, because it is not just his life, but the lives of two people,” said KK2, a member of Seimas.
I. Šimonytė also opens up and loves the company of children and feels good with each other.
“Only once did I think I would have about six children, I really like them. I usually end the party with the children because the parents have something to do. And I feel very comfortable with them “, said the politician in the program” Uncomfortable Questions “.
Full attention to the mother
In open interviews, I. Šimonytė never concealed that much of his life revolves around his seriously ill mother Danute, with whom he lived together. I. Šimonytė’s mother had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for just over 30 years.
“It is a nasty autoimmune disease that eats away all human joints. Now there are a lot of drugs, biotherapy – it slows down the development of the disease. However, the mother got sick during the changes, when there was not much medicine or knowledge about it. Her hands , wrists, fingers are kind of crooked, “I. Šimonytė told” Žmonės “magazine.
The disease, according to the politician, took away all the independence of the mother, she could not dress, comb her hair or contain the cry. The woman also suffered constant pain for many years.
“Initially, the trauma surgeons saved a little: they replaced another joint. However, this disease goes through the whole organism, it makes a person completely disabled,” I. Šimonytė told the magazine.
She remembers that while Dad was alive, they both shared the burden of caring for their mother. However, after the loss of her father, I. Šimonyte had to take care of her mother alone, because her younger sister, a biosciences doctor, works in Sweden.
Therefore, every day I. Šimonytė went to take care of her mother at least several times a day, no matter how busy she was at work.
“In recent years, there have been side effects that come with the disease,” the heart and kidneys have stopped working and various bacteria have attacked. She can no longer stand or walk alone. Everything hurts, so you constantly massage, rub, give medicine … Nursing has become difficult, you have to spend most of the time in hospitals and nursing homes, ”I. Šimonytė told” People “.
Painful loss
I. Šimonytė’s mother, Danutė Šimonienė, died in the summer of 2019 after a long and serious illness. The news of the mother’s death was confirmed to the media by the politician only a month later. This time, she said, she always avoided talking too much and openly about her mother’s illness and therefore about grieving people.
“It is definitely not a topic that I would like to exploit, it is not that I am going to start whining at people here in some way right now, because I think there are many people who have different, complex problems in life and even more complex than that. Own”. Delfi has said I. Šimonytė.
Even before his mother’s death, I. Šimonytė said that he had come to terms with that his loss was inevitable.
“And how will I feel then? … Does it matter?” It is equally useless to ask yourself or God: “Why me ?!” My insistent care and nurturing may continue with my mother’s suffering, but there is nothing else I can do, “I. Šimonytė told People magazine at the time.
Unexpected hobbies
It’s quite ironic that I. Šimonytė, who is striving to become one of the top three heads of state, says he doesn’t like the attention, but understands that that’s the price of his duties.
“I’m not the one who loves attention very much. But I understand that that is the price, because I am a famous person and I will not get any of that, unless I re-dye my hair black, take off my glasses or do something else, ”said I. Šimonytė for 15 minutes.
It is interesting that I. Šimonytė mentions the Antakalnis cemetery as his favorite place in Vilnius, and in an interview he mentioned that he likes cemeteries in general.
It is no secret to anyone that I. Šimonytė’s favorite book is “The Adventures of the Great Soldier Šveikas”, which, according to politics, he has read so many times that he can quote entire passages.
“I have not read that book many times. I read it only once to prove to myself that it does not contain a sentence about the fact that the Government, which made beer more expensive, is doomed to failure, as they say in public space” said I. Šimonytė for 15 minutes.
It is true that books have played an important role in I. Šimonytė’s life since childhood. He laughs that myopia also subsided due to the fondness of hiding under the blanket at night to read books until dawn.
“It’s not easy for me to say what it would be like if it hadn’t counted. However, I think it would be a person who is busy with the news of my parish and is convinced of my true truth, who is afraid of others and change in general “, considered I. Šimonytė” Literature and Art “.
Another unusual political pastime is puzzles.
“I really like puzzles. If something like that can be called a hobby, then when I find a bigger puzzle, I lean on the ground and scream around until I put it all together,” KK2 said.
2015 I. Šimonyte was awarded the state award – the Officer Cross of Vytautas the Grand Order. At that time, she was the vice president of the board of the Bank of Lithuania.
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