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Lithuanian PM reportedly resigns

The Associated Press Translate This Article
1 June 2006

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas told the president he was resigning Wednesday after his coalition government was left in tatters by the withdrawal of a key partner, the defense minister said.

Defense Minister Gediminas Kirkilas told The Associated Press that Brazauskas informed President Valdas Adamkus of his resignation in a meeting Wednesday. The move came after the Labor Party dropped out of the coalition government amid allegations of corruption.

An official announcement was expected later Wednesday after an emergency Cabinet meeting, Kirkilas said.

Brazauskas, a former Lithuanian communist party leader, was the ex-Soviet republic's first president after regaining independence in 1991. He was appointed prime minister in July 2001 and has led two governments since.

His current Cabinet—the Baltic country's 13th government since independence—was already rickety after another coalition member, New Union, withdrew in April to protest that its leader, Arturas Paulauskas, was ousted from the post of Parliament speaker.

On Wednesday, the Labor Party said it, too, would withdraw its five Cabinet ministers after two of them were accused of misusing public and party funds.

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