Andrius Kubilius

Andrius Kubilius ( born December 8, 1956 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian politician, leader of the opposition of the Seimas. He was from November 1999 to October 2000 and from 2008 to 2012 Prime Minister of the country. He leads the party Homeland Union ( Conservatives) ( Tėvynės Sąjunga ).

Life

Study, career

After school he graduated from 1974 to 1979 to study physics at the University of Vilnius. Following this he worked until 1990 as a university lecturer.

Member of Parliament

During this time he joined in 1988 the Lithuanian reform movement Sąjūdis whose Executive Secretary, he was finally between 1990 and 1992. He was first elected Members of Parliament ( Seimas ) in 1992, of which he is a member since then. In May 1993 he moved from the right wing of the Sąjūdis the newly founded party Homeland Union ( Tėvynės Sąjunga ), which he is chairman since May 2003. First, he was Chairman of the Group of the Homeland Union in the Seimas, before 1996 First Deputy Chairman of Parliament, after the electoral success of conservative parties (until 1999).

Prime Minister and opposition leader

On 3 November 1999, he was elected following the resignation of Rolandas Paksas and a brief transitional government of Irena Degutienė prime minister. On 26 October 2000 he resigned from this office after his party a bitter defeat and the loss of 61 of its previous 70 seats suffered in the parliamentary elections of 8 October 2000. The new prime minister was his predecessor Paksas.

From 2005 to 2006 he was leader of the opposition in the Seimas. After Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas resignation of Prime Minister on 31 May 2006 he was regarded as a promising candidate for the succession, but the premiership then fell to Gediminas Kirkilas. He was elected again in 2006 as one of the Deputy Speaker of Parliament and Chairman of the Committee on Relations with the European Union.

In the parliamentary elections in Lithuania in 2008 Kubilius joined again as the top candidate of the Tėvynės Sąjunga. After the election victory of his party (44 of the 141 seats) made ​​his party a four-party coalition. On 27 November 2008, he was elected with the votes of the coalition as well as other MPs with 89 of 141 (with 27 abstentions ) by the Parliament for the second time as Prime Minister of Lithuania.

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