2024-04-20 13:22:47
“Gediminas Kirkilas was a wise, respectable, western-minded politician who worked tirelessly on behalf of Lithuania. His period as prime minister in the first years of EU and NATO membership was an important test of the western direction, which we passed,” the president’s condolences read.
The head of the country expresses his condolences to the family, relatives, friends and associates of G. Kirkilos.
Former Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas died on Saturday at the age of 72. About this portal lrytas.lt confirmed the police representative Ramūnas Matonis on Saturday morning.
G. Kirkilas was born in 1951. in the capital. 1978-1989 belonged to the USSR, later to the Lithuanian Communist Party. 1990 G. Kirkilas was elected as the first deputy of the Lithuanian Democratic Labor Party (LDDP) and belonged to this political force for several years. Since 2001 became a member of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), 2007-2009. chaired the Social Democrats.
The politician has been elected to the Seimas since 1992. and worked in the parliament for several terms – until 2020. in 2017 retired from the ranks of the Social Democrats in November.
G. Kirkilas served as Minister of National Defense in 2004-2006, headed the Government in 2006-2008.
G. Kirkilas in 2003 was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great, and a year later – the Commander’s Cross of the Order of the Vytis Cross.
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