Birutė Vėsaitė returns to active politics



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The council politician will replace the resigned executive secretary of the LSDP, Justas Pankauskas, who is being delegated to the new Central Electoral Commission of this party.

True, the politician will officially take office only after taking the oath at the Lazdijai District Municipal Council meeting, which is scheduled for the end of May.

A former member of the Seimas, who has been a minister for a short time, B. V forsaitė has recently disappeared from active politics after the unsuccessful elections to the Seimas.

B. Vėsaitė, who lives in Kaunas, has officially declared his place of residence in Lazdijai District Municipality, where he has a farm.

He ran on the local Social Democratic electoral roll, but did not join the council in 2019.

B. Vėsaitė had the opportunity to return to active politics after Joalita Lynikienė, a teacher at the Lazdijai Motiejus Gustaitis Gymnasium, who was on the post-election list one place above her, refused to hold the presidency of a member of the Municipal District of Lazdijai Council for personal reasons.

B. Vėsaitė was elected a member of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania according to the list of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party for four terms, from 2000 to 2016.

Politician 2007 was mentioned in the scandal of the construction of the second hospital in Kaunas, she also spoke out against the construction of the Žalgiris Arena on the island of Nemunas.

The amendments to the Alcohol Control Law put forward by B. Vėsaitė together with his colleagues were also controversial. This amendment prevented live television broadcasts of alcohol-sponsored sports.

2012 December 7 Birutė Vėsaitė was appointed Minister of Economy of the 16th Government of the Republic of Lithuania by Decree of the President of the Republic of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaitė.

However, already at the beginning of the work, the woman faced communication problems. interview in 2013 January 8 in a television program, the minister was confused about the ministry he headed: Economy or Energy.

2013 In May, B. Vėsaitė used the services of the private company Arvi took a business trip to Kazakhstan in a business class aircraft leased by the company, which raised suspicions of a conflict of interest, since at the same time the Ministry of Economy was preparing a decision on the conditions of participation of the same company in one of the free economic zones.

After the Main Ethics Commission ended the investigation into political actions, the Ethics and Procedures Commission of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania was tasked with investigating the former minister’s conduct.

The Seimas Ethics and Procedures Commission, after examining the material presented, established that Birutė Vėsaitė did not violate the law, but the ministers did not save it. 2013 May 29 The President of the Republic of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaitė, signed a decree taking into account the proposal of Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and removed Birutė Vėsaitė from the post of Minister of Economy.

A politician with engineering studies on the Lazdijai District City Council is likely to serve on the Budget, Property and Investment Committee, which was headed by J. Pankauskas until his resignation.

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