Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė

Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė
MP

Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė in 2011
Minister of Health of Lithuania
In office
17 July 2014  February 2016
Preceded by Vytenis Andriukaitis
Succeeded by Juras Požela
Personal details
Born (1954-02-25) 25 February 1954
Varniai, Lithuania
Political party SSKP (1986-1990), LDDP (1990-2001), LSDP (2001-)
Occupation Politician

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]

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