Butkevičius Cabinet was the 16th cabinet of
Lithuania
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since 1990. It consisted of the Prime Minister, who was the Head of Government, and 14 government ministers from the
Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, the
Labour Party, the
Order and Justice, and the
Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania
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History
After the
parliamentary elections in 2012, President
Dalia Grybauskaitė appointed Algirdas Butkevičius, leader of the
Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, as the Prime Minister on 26 November 2012. The cabinet received its mandate on 13 December 2012. At that time, the ministers in the Butkevičius Cabinet had the highest average age of all the cabinets in the independent Lithuanian history, with the average age of its members exceeding 54 years.
It initially consisted of four parties (
Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, the
Labour Party, the
Order and Justice, and the
Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania
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), but latter party left the government in August 2014.
Butkevičius cabinet became the second successive government of Lithuania to serve the full
four-year term of the Seimas, returning its mandate on 14 November 2016, after the elections to the Seimas that October. Also this government was first one to retain its majority in Seimas throughout latter's full term. The government continued to serve in an acting capacity until the
Skvernelis Cabinet started its work on 13 December 2016.
Cabinet
References
External links
*http://www.lrv.lt/
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Cabinet of Lithuania
2012 establishments in Lithuania
Cabinets established in 2012
2016 disestablishments in Lithuania
Cabinets disestablished in 2016