Albertas Å imÄ—nas
Alberta Šimėnas ( born February 17, 1950 in anykščiai ) is a Lithuanian politician of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party ( Lietuvos Krikščionių Demokratų Partija ) and former Prime Minister.
Life
Study and career
After school he started in 1967 to study economics at the University of Vilnius, which he completed in 1972. At the same time he completed the meantime, additional studies in business mathematics. Subsequently, he was assistant at the Institute for Economic Planning of the Lithuanian SSR. 1984 he was appointed to the faculty at the Institute of Civil Engineering of the Technical University Vilnius Gediminas where he worked until 1989.
Šimėnas since 2000 Member of the Board and Deputy General Director of the Lithuanian railway company (AB " Lietuvos Geležinkeliai " ) and is specifically responsible as such for company expansion.
Prime Minister and Vilnius Bloody Sunday
After the independence of Lithuania on 11 March 1990, he was first elected Members of Parliament ( Seimas ), where he served until 1992.
On 10 January 1991 he was appointed as the successor of Casimire PRUNSKIENE for three days prime minister of a transitional cabinet. In the days that followed the occupation of public facilities by army units of the Soviet Union. His office lost Šimėnas after the events at the Vilnius Bloody Sunday on 13 January 1991, when in the demonstrations for freedom and independence of Lithuania by the Soviet Union Fourteen people were killed and more than 1000 people were injured. They were partially crushed by Soviet tanks, partially shot. When he vanished without a trace during these events for some time, it was initially thought that he was kidnapped by the Red Army. He himself admitted after his appearance, however, that he had merely hidden. Successor as Prime Minister, during his absence Gediminas Vagnorius.
On 21 July 1992 Prime Minister Aleksandra him Abišala appointed Minister for Economic Affairs in the Cabinet. This office he held until 2 December 1992.
MP and election defeats
After that he took for a few years his high school career as director of the Institute for Economy and Privatization again, before he again in 1996 elected as deputies of the Seimas, which he to 2000 as the representative of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party ( Lietuvos Krikščionių Demokratų Partija ) belonged to this time. During this time he was a recognized expert in economics Chairman of the Economic Committee. He was also from 1998 to 2000 Deputy Chairman of the European Affairs Committee. In the parliamentary elections on October 8, 2000, he ran again for the constituency Naujamiesčio, but reached 16.0 percent, only the third of nine candidates.
After Lithuania's accession to the European Union on 1 May 2004, he ran unsuccessfully for the Christian Democratic Party for the European Parliament.
In October 2004, he finally ran also unsuccessfully for re- entry into the Seimas, which he only reached this time in the constituency Justiniškių with 7.7 percent of the vote to seventh place among 15 nominees.
Publications
- Economic Criteria For Lithuanian 's Membership In The European Union And The Outlook Of Their Fulfillment. In: EKONOMIKA, No. 44, 1998
- Development of Stock Companies. In: EKONOMIKA, No. 46, 1999
- UKIO reforma Lietuvoje 1990-1994 metais. 1999