Lithuania's prime minister resigns


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  • Thursday, 31 Jul 2025

FILE PHOTO: Lithuanian Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas speaks during press conference in Riga, Latvia May 30, 2025. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/File Photo

VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania's Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas has decided to resign from his post, he said in a statement sent by his Social Democrat Party on Thursday.

A junior party in Lithuania's government on Wednesday threatened to quit the ruling coalition unless Paluckas resigned over business ties to a company owned by his sister-in-law.

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