The leader of the Social Democrats of Lithuania, Mindaugas \u0160inkevi\u010dius, announced that he is taking office as prime minister, while a new government coalition is being formed following the expulsion of the Nemunas Dawn party.<\/p>\n
The leader of the ruling Social Democratic Party<\/strong> of Lithuania, Mindaugas \u0160inkevi\u010dius<\/strong>, announced that he will succeed the current prime minister Inga Ruginien\u0117<\/strong>, who, as he noted, will remain \u201can important member of the team.\u201d<\/p>\n The announcement was made on Tuesday, June 16, with \u0160inkevi\u010dius confirming via a post on Facebook<\/strong> that he is taking on the responsibility of forming the new government and serving as prime minister<\/strong>.<\/p>\n This development comes at a time of significant upheaval in the country\u2019s political landscape. Earlier this month, the ruling Social Democrats<\/strong> decided to expel the Dawn of the Nemunas<\/strong> party from the coalition, led by Remigijus Zemaitis<\/strong>, who was convicted last December of anti-Semitic crimes of hate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Following these developments, the Social Democrats<\/strong>, the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union<\/strong>, and the Union of Democrats<\/strong> are moving to form a new governing coalition called \u201cFor Lithuania\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The three parties are expected to sign on Thursday governance agreement and present the new cabinet<\/strong>, marking a new political phase for the country.<\/p>\n Referring to the recent violations of Lithuanian airspace by unmanned aerial vehicles<\/strong>, Sinkevi\u010dius emphasized the need to further strengthen defense<\/strong>, while stressing that the country\u2019s foreign policy<\/strong> must remain active, consistent, and focused on achieving tangible results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The leader of the Lithuanian Social Democrats, Mindaugas \u0160inkevi\u010dius, announced that he is taking office as prime minister, while a new government is being formed …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u201cFor Lithuania\u201d Coalition, with defense as a priority<\/strong><\/h3>\n