V. Sinkevičius will lead the Democrats for the next four years.
The new party leader competed in the elections with Minister of Health, MP Linas Kukuraitis.
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The branches also nominated Minister of Energy, MP Lukas Savickas, and MP, former Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, but they refused to participate in the elections.
BNS wrote that Saulius Skvernelis, who had served as the leader of the Democrats until then, resigned in the spring. The politician did so after it became clear that the prosecutor’s office would request to lift his legal immunity while investigating a case of corruption in the State Plant Service.
The Democratic Union “For Lithuania” recently joined the ruling coalition, which also consists of social democrats and “peasants”.
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