{"id":551028,"date":"2026-06-15T13:42:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=551028"},"modified":"2026-06-15T15:16:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:16:44","slug":"lithuania-may-get-a-new-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuania-may-get-a-new-prime-minister","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania May Get a New Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A new governing coalition has been formed in Lithuania. The updated government will be made up of the Social Democratic Party, the Democratic Union &#8220;For Lithuania&#8221;, and the Lithuanian Farmers, Greens and Christian Families Union.<\/p>\n<p>The Social Democrats had previously ruled out a coalition with the Dawn of Nemunas party.<\/p>\n<p>A new coalition agreement has been drafted. The Social Democrats will retain the positions of prime minister and speaker of the Seimas.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrytas.lt\/lietuvosdiena\/aktualijos\/2026\/06\/15\/news\/m-sinkevicius-apsisprende-del-premjero-posto-i-ruginiene-sieks-grizti-i-ministres-42822045\">Lrytas<\/a>, Social Democratic Party leader <b>Mindaugas Sinkevi\u010dius<\/b> has decided after all to take up the post of prime minister. No official announcement has yet been made. Sinkevi\u010dius is expected to inform party colleagues at a meeting scheduled in the coming days. Lithuania&#8217;s government is currently headed by <b>Inga Ruginien\u0117<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, since the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party won the 2024 election, its leader has not served as prime minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new governing coalition has been formed in Lithuania. The updated government will be made up of the Social Democratic Party, the Democratic Union &#8220;For Lithuania&#8221;, and the Lithuanian Farmers, Greens and Christian Families Union. The Social Democrats had previously ruled out a coalition with the Dawn of Nemunas party. A new coalition agreement has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":516021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a2fed2faeb76.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuania May Get a New Prime Minister"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-politics"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}