Government ‘of lesser evil’ sworn in

Jul 19, 2006
Staff and wire reports

VILNIUS - Parliament approved the program of Lithuania’s new center-left minority coalition on July 18, after which the 14th government was sworn in, giving the scandal-plagued country a new political start. The center-left bloc that has formed the new minority government – the Social Democrats, the National Farmers’ Union, the Civil Democracy party and the Liberal Centrists – will have 53 members in the 141-seat legislature.Social Democrat Gemdiminas Kirkilas will lead the government, in which ...

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