Gintautas Paluckas (born 19 August 1979) is a Lithuanian politician.

Biography

In 1997 graduated from Panevėžys J. Balčikonis Gymnasium, from 2000 to 2001 he studied English at Charles Dickens College in London. In 2003 he graduated from the

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Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, in 2004 from International Business School. Since 2004 studies at VU Faculty of Law. From 2003 to 2005 he served as the Chief Specialist at Lithuanian Social insurance institution (Sodra). Since 2005 he served as the Assistant to

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member

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. From 2007 to 2009 he was Director of Administration of the

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city municipality. In 2012 The final and unappealable decision of the Supreme Court of Lithuania found the service guilty of abusing the service in a non-transparent public procurement tender. Since 2013 Paluckas was Executive Secretary of the

Lithuanian Social Democratic Party The Social Democratic Party of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos socialdemokratų partija, LSDP) is a centre-left and social democratic political party in Lithuania. Founded as an underground Marxist organization in 1896, it is the oldest extant part ...

, Member of the LSDP Council and Board. From 2015 to 2019 Paluckas served as Deputy Mayor of

. He is an author of several articles and political reviews in the national press. In 2017 Paluckas won leadership election of the

Social Democratic Party of Lithuania The Social Democratic Party of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos socialdemokratų partija, LSDP) is a centre-left and social democratic political party in Lithuania. Founded as an underground Marxist organization in 1896, it is the oldest extant par ...

after defeating then-Minister of Economy Mindaugas Sinkevičius in a run-off. After leadership election, the party decided to leave a ruling coalition via survey of all its members. As a result of a decision, majority of its members of the

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left the party to form a new one,

Social Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania The Lithuanian Regions Party ( lt, Lietuvos regionų partija, LRP), also translated as the Lithuanian Party of Regions, is a social-democratic political party in Lithuania. It was founded in 2018 as the Social Democratic Labour Party of Lithuan ...

, and remain in the ruling coalition. Paluckas was reelected as a leader of the party in 2019. After poor results in the parliamentary elections of 2020, Paluckas faced criticism over his decision to support the

Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union The Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union ( lt, Lietuvos valstiečių ir žaliųjų sąjunga, LVŽS)The party is also known as Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union. is a green-conservative and agrarian political party in Lithuania led by Ram ...

candidates in the second round of elections. Initially, he stated his willingness to take part in the leadership elections of 2021, but after negative assessment in the party's board, Paluckas resigned on January 22, 2021.

References

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