2012-12-11 13:36

Lithuanian Labor Party's chooses two new candidates for cabinet

Dainius Pavalkis, 52, professor of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences and chairman of the Labor Party's Committee on Health, confirmed to BNS on Tuesday that he is among the party's candidates for minister of education and science. Sources say economist Svetlana Kauzonienė, 42, might be nominated as minister of social security and labor.
Svetlana Kauzonienė
Svetlana Kauzonienė / Andriaus Ufarto/BFL nuotr.

"It's too early to say yet," Kauzonienė told BNS when asked if she was among candidates for minister of social security and labor.

Kauzonienė is currently heading the Public Procurement Unit of the Ministry of Health. She previously worked at various financial and insurance companies. She was adviser to Labor Party leader Viktor Uspaskich in 2004-2005. She has worked at the Ministry of Health since 2005.

Last Friday, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė approved 12 out of 14 members of the new Cabinet after having rejected the Labor Party's Loreta Graužinienė and Virginija Baltraitienė.

On Monday, the Presidium of the Labor Party proposed three candidates for each of the two ministerial positions.

Lithuania's new Cabinet will start functioning after the Seimas approves its program and ministers are sworn in. It is expected to do so on Thursday.

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