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Kazimira Prunskienė
Kazimira Danutė Prunskienė (; born 26 February 1943) is a Lithuanian politician who was the first prime minister of Lithuania after the declaration of independence on 11 March 1990, and then Minister of Agriculture in the government of Gediminas Kirkilas. She was the leader of the Peasants and New Democratic Party Union and the Lithuanian People's Party. From 1981 to 1986 she worked in West Germany. She ran in the 2004 Lithuanian presidential election against Valdas Adamkus, hoping to receive votes from supporters of impeached president Rolandas Paksas, but finished in second place in the first round and was defeated in the runoff. Prunskienė is also a member of the Council of Women World Leaders, an international network of current and former women presidents and prime ministers whose mission is to mobilize the highest-level women leaders globally for collective action on issues of critical importance to women and equitable development. Early life and education Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister Of Agriculture (Lithuania)
The Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Lithuania () is a government department of the Republic of Lithuania. Its operations are authorized by the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania, decrees issued by the President and Prime Minister, and laws passed by the Seimas (Parliament). Its mission is to prosecute state policy realization and coordination in ranges of land, food, fishery, village development, agriculture. The current head of the Ministry is Kęstutis Navickas. History The ministry was first established on 11 November 1918, as the Ministry of Agriculture and State Assets () of the Republic of Lithuania. Its first minister was Juozas Tūbelis. It was renamed to the Ministry of Agriculture on 21 June 1924. Ministers References {{authority control Agriculture Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuanian People's Party
The Lithuanian People's Party () is a minor pro-Russian political party in Lithuania. It describes itself as left-of-centre. It was founded in 2010 as a split from the Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union, and was led by the party's former chairman and the first prime minister of independent Lithuania, Kazimira Prunskienė. It has no representatives on the European, national or municipal level. History After having left the party to run in the 2009 presidential election, Kazimira Prunskienė announced her intention to create a new political party in 2009. Its initiative group was made up of former members of the Peasant Popular Union. Prunskienė cited her conflict with Ramūnas Karbauskis, the party's new chairman, and its narrow focus on farmers as her reasons to establish a new party. The party was founded as the Lithuanian People's Movement () on 5 December 2009. The party's founding conference was attended by Konstantin Kosachev, member of the State Duma of the Russian Federat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |