{"id":1274235,"date":"2025-07-31T14:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/lithuanian-prime-minister-resigns\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:05:10","slug":"lithuanian-prime-minister-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/lithuanian-prime-minister-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Prime Minister Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lithuanian Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas has announced his resignation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This was announced by the President of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrt.lt\/en\/news-in-english\/19\/2629127\/lithuanian-pm-paluckas-to-resign-amid-allegations-of-shady-business-dealings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LRT<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Gintautas Paluckas called me on the phone this morning and informed me of his resignation,&#8221; Nauseda told reporters.<\/p>\n<p> The President added that the head of government made &#8220;the only right choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I welcome his decision,&#8221; Nauseda added.<\/p>\n<p> According to the Constitution, the Prime Minister of Lithuania is appointed and dismissed by the President with the consent of the Parliament.<\/p>\n<p> Paluckas is known to have found himself in a number of scandals after a journalistic investigation revealed that the company Garnis, which he co-founded, received a subsidized loan of 200,000 euros from the National Development Bank when Paluckas was prime minister. <\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas has announced his resignation. This was announced by the President of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda, LRT reports. &#8220;Gintautas Paluckas called me on the phone this morning and informed me of his resignation,&#8221; Nauseda told reporters. The President added that the head of government made &#8220;the only right choice.&#8221; &#8220;I welcome his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1217912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1274235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1217912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}