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Revision as of 13:59, 8 December 2016

Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė
Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė in 2011
Member of the Seimas
Assumed office
17 November 2012
Minister of Health of Lithuania
In office
17 July 2014 – 17 February 2016
PresidentDalia Grybauskaitė
Preceded byVytenis Andriukaitis
Succeeded byJuras Požela
Personal details
Born (1954-02-25) 25 February 1954 (age 70)
Varniai, Lithuania
Political partyCommunist Party of Lithuania (1986-1990)
Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania (1990-2001)
Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (2012-)
Alma materVilnius University

Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė (born 25 February 1954, Varniai, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian lawyer, ombudsman, and political and public figure.

Biography

From 1971 to 1976, Šalaševičiūtė studied at the Vilnius University Faculty of Law. She taught at many different universities before becoming a politician.

From 1990 to 1995, she was the Vilnius City Council Secretariat Secretary-consultant. From 1995 to 2003, she was a Seimas ombudsman advisor, and from 2003 to 2005, she was a Seimas Ombudsman herself.[1][2] She was also a Lithuanian national UNICEF board member. She was a member of the Seimas from 2012 to 2016, and, from 2014 to 2016, in the government of Algirdas Butkevičius, the Minister of Health of Lithuania.[3][4] From 2001 onward, she is a member of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party.[5] In February 2016, however, she stepped down from both the Seimas and as the Minister of Health after she publicly admitted giving a bribe to a doctor.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas - Dokumento tekstas". Lrs.lt. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Trumpa įstaigos istorija - Lietuvos Seimo kontrolierių įstaiga". Lrski.lt. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Rimantė ŠALAŠEVIČIŪTĖ". Lrs.lt. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  4. ^ "Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas - Dokumento tekstas". Lrs.lt. 16 July 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  5. ^ "2014 m. gegužės 25 d. rinkimai į Europos Parlamentą - Lietuvos Respublikos vyriausioji rinkimų komisija". 2013.vrk.lt. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  6. ^ "Sveikatos apsaugos ministrę klampina kyšiai". Skrastas.lt. Retrieved 3 March 2016.