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Lithuania's new PM Ingrida Simonyte unveils Cabinet candidates, six of 13 are women

2020-11-26
TBT staff

Lithuania’s next prime minister Ingrida Simonyte, representing the conservative Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian De-mocrats (HU-LCD), announced on November 18 the names of ministerial candidates whom she would like to see in her cabinet. She presented the list to Pres...

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