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He did so on his Twitter account, at the same time that he praised I. Šimonytė for forming the government.
“Congratulations, Ingrida Šimonyte. I wish you the greatest possible success as Prime Minister of Lithuania. I can only commend your efforts to form a gender balanced government; I hope you inspire many other leaders. I look forward to working with you,” wrote Ursula von der They read in your congratulatory message.
15min recalls that on Tuesday the parliamentarians supported the candidacy of Ingrida Šimonytė for the post of Prime Minister.
62 of the 113 members of the Seimas present at the session voted in favor of his candidacy. There were 10 votes against and 41 abstentions.
1 representative from the Freedom Group and 3 from the Conservative Group did not participate in the vote.
The entire Liberal Movement of 11 people could not vote either.
8 “peasants” voted against the candidate, the rest abstained. The majority of the Labor Party also abstained.
“I thank those who supported my candidacy, I also thank those who did not. To all those whom I did not convince, but who would like to talk to me, whether to have some kind of discussion, solve problems or make reproaches, I will always be open to those people, but I cannot promise P. Gražulis that I will call the dictator Belarusian with nice words. “, – said I. Šimonytė after the vote.
Once the Seimas approves the candidacy of the Prime Minister and the President appoints him, the Prime Minister, no later than within 15 days after his appointment, will present to the Seimas the Government formed by him and approved by the President, submit to consideration of the program of this Government.
Born in Vilnius, I. Šimonytė has an education in economics, has worked in the Ministry of Finance from economist to secretary, deputy minister and finally minister of Finance. He held the last post in the government of conservative Andrius Kubilius in 2009-2012. After that, I. Šimonytė worked at the Bank of Lithuania for three years, taught at Vilnius University, until in 2016 he entered parliament with the Christian Democrats of the Lithuanian National Union.
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