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The Lithuanian Prime Minister, Gintautas Paluckas, resigned on Thursday after protests in the country's capital about research on their alleged businesses.
“Gintautas Paluckas called me this morning and informed me of his resignation,” said Lithuanian President Nausėda, journalists, according to Lithuanian national radio and television (LRT). Nausėda also said that Paluckas made the right decision and welcomed the decision.
Nausėda recently gave Paluckas two weeks to decide whether or not to remain in position.
The Lithuanian President, Gitanas Nausėda, on July 24, 2025, gave Prime Minister Gintayas Paluckas two weeks to decide if he would resign. (Ints Kalnins/Mike Segar/Reuters)
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“The president has asked the Prime Minister to give a reasoned answer to the questions raised by the public in the next two weeks, or to seriously consider his additional options as a prime minister,” presidential advisor Frederikas Jansonas said to journalists on July 24, according to LRT.
Prime Minister's resignation also occurs after a smaller party threatened to leave the country's ruling coalition unless Paluckas resigned from his position.
After the media began publishing research on the commercial and financial treatment of Paluckas, the anti -corruption agencies and application of the Lithuanian law launched their own probes, according to The Associated Press. One of the cases against him has more than a decade.
The newly elected Prime Minister of Lithuania, Gintautas Paluckas, speaks to the media in Parliament in Vilnius, Lithuania, November 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Kulbis Mindaugas, Archive)
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In 2012, Paluckas was condemned by evil managing the bidding process for the extermination of rats in Vilnius, where he served as director of the municipal administration of the city, said Associated Press. However, it has been revealed that it did not pay a part of the fine of almost $ 20,000.
A more recent scandal involved a subsidized loan of € 200,000 ($ 228,777) that Garnis, a company that co -founded, received after Paluckas was already serving as prime minister, according to LRT. The media added that the main official Lithuania ethics commission is investigating the loan.
Garnis was also linked to a more recent scandal that involved the prime minister in which Dankora, the Paluckas sister -in -law company, received EU funds and used it to buy garnis products. However, according to LRT, the public protest pushed Dankora to return the funds.
The new Lithuanian Prime Minister, Gintautas Paluckas, attends a session of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, in Vilna on December 12, 2024. (Petras Malukas/AFP through Getty Images)
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Paluckas denies any irregularity and states that criticism is part of a “coordinated attack” by its political opponents, according to Associated Press.
The renunciation of the prime minister puts Lithuania in a precarious position, since it occurs just before Russia and Belarus perform joint military exercises. The entire Paluckas cabinet is expected to also resign, possibly abandoning the Baltic country without a government that works only weeks before Russian Bellarus exercises, according to Associated Press. However, this may not affect the foreign policy of Lithuania, since Nausėda, which represents the country at a global scale, has been a burning defender of Ukraine during his war of years with Russia.
