Lithuania Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas Resigns

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) – Lithuanian Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas resigned on Thursday after investigations in business relations. Baltic countryCapital calls for resignation.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda On Thursday morning, he announced the resignation of Paluckas to the media. Paluckas spokesman did not respond immediately to the request for comments.

Paluckas, a newly established leader of the left -wing social democrats, rose to its role in late last year after a three -party coalition established after the parliamentary elections in October. It is expected that the entire cabinet will resign by leaving the country without an effective government without Russia’s common military exercises. Neighbor Belarus.

Paluckas has recently been supported by media investigations on business and financial agreements. In July, several media organizations issued investigations into Paluckas’s past and current initiatives and Mishandlings, including those who were more than ten years ago. Baltic Country ‘S’s fight against corruption and law enforcement officers later started their own probes.

With a destructive blow to its reputation, the Media announced that Paluckas has never paid a significant portion of the 16,500 euro fine ($ 19.039) in connection with the 2012 criminal case called “Rat Poison Scandal”.

Paluckas was convicted of using the process of providing bidding for Vilnius’s proposal for rating destruction services while serving as the Başkent Municipal Administration Director. In 2012, the top court judges of the country decided that the company exploited its official position by giving it illegal privileges to the company, which offers the highest price in the proposal.

He was also sentenced to two years in prison behind the bars, but the penalty was suspended for a year and was never imprisoned.

The leader of the Social Democratic Party refused to do any wrong about the business by tagging criticism as part of a “coordinated attack ın of political opponents.

He resigned to officially initiate the opposition. The new coalition talks are expected to start to create a new cabinet soon.