Živilė Pinskuvienė (

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Gudonytė) (born 21 February 1975) is a Lithuanian engineer, politician and Mayor of

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since 2015. She was the chairwoman of the Labour Party from 2016 to 2017.

Biography

Pinskuvienė graduated from Širvintos 1st Secondary School, and from

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VILNIUS TECH) is a public university located in Vilnius, Lithuania. There are 10 faculties including Antanas Gustaitis Aviation Institute, Architecture, Business Management, Civil Engineering, Creative ...

as a Master of Environmental Engineering in 2003. She was the

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of Danielita from 2004 to 2005 and later worked in other roles in the company. From 2003 to 2017, she was a member of the Labour Party and chaired the party's

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branch. From 2005 to 2006, she was an advisor to

Minister of Economy A ministry of finance is a ministry or other government agency in charge of government finance, fiscal policy, and financial regulation. It is headed by a finance minister, an executive or cabinet position . A ministry of finance's portfolio ...

Kęstutis Daukšys and director of Širvintos District Municipality administration from 2006 to 2007, dismissed following a vote of no confidence by the municipal council. Since 2011, she is a member of the municipal council of Širvintos District Municipality. Pinskuvienė was elected as a

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in 2012, but was expelled by the Constitutional Court on allegations of electoral bribery. Afterwards, she was appointed as Vice-

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to Minister Vigilijus Jukna, after the

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ministers in the

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refused to accept her in their ministries. In the first direct mayoral elections in Lithuania in 2015, Pinskuvienė won the mayoral election in Širvintos against Social Democrat candidate Andrius Jozonis with 55% of the vote. The results of the election were annulled by the Ukmergė district court after allegations that Pinskuvienė's team attempted to use electoral bribery during the vote. Pinskuvienė won the repeat elections in the first round with 68% of the vote. After leaving the Labour Party in 2017, Pinskuvienė formed an electoral committee, named "Živilė Pinskuvienė's team – for a successful Širvintos region" (). She won the 2019 mayoral election with 72% of the vote and her committee acquired a supermajority in the Širvintos municipal council. In 2023, she won 80% of the vote and was elected for a third term. In 2022, Pinskuvienė and her committee joined her husband Jonas Pinskus's

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