Kubilius Cabinet II

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Kubilius Cabinet II
2008–2012
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Date formed9 December 2008 (2008-12-09)
Date dissolved13 December 2012 (2012-12-13)
People and organisations
Head of state Valdas Adamkus (2008–2009)
Dalia Grybauskaitė (2009–2012)
Head of government Andrius Kubilius
Member parties
Status in legislature
Majority (2008–2010 and 2010–2012)

Minority (2010) and (2012) supported by Lithuanian Peasants Popular Union (2010)
[2] [3]
Opposition parties
Opposition leader Gediminas Kirkilas (2008–2009), Valentinas Mazuronis (2009–2010; 2011–2012), Vytautas Gapšys (2010, 2011, 2012), Algirdas Butkevičius (2010–2011; 2012) [5]
History
Election 2008
Legislature term Tenth Seimas
Predecessor Kirkilas Cabinet
Successor Butkevičius Cabinet

The Second Kubilius Cabinet was the 15th cabinet of Lithuania since 1990. It consisted of the Prime Minister and 13 government ministers (14 after the Ministry of Energy was re-established in 2009). The coalition consisted of the Homeland Union, National Resurrection Party (which suffered a split with both factions leaving the coalition by 2010), Liberal Movement, and the Liberal and Centre Union (which was later joined by a faction of the National Resurrection Party).

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History

After the parliamentary elections in October, President Valdas Adamkus appointed Andrius Kubilius, the leader of the Homeland Union, as the Prime Minister on 28 November 2008. Kubilius had previously headed the 10th cabinet between 1999 and 2000. The 15th cabinet received its mandate and started its work on 9 December 2008, after the Seimas gave assent to its program. [6]

The coalition, which formed on 17 November 2008 and supported the government named itself the "Coalition of Change". [7]

In first two months of 2010 National Resurrection Party dissenters formed the new Christian Party. By this time, the government lost its majority and had to rely on support from the Lithuanian Peasants Popular Union, which lasted up until October of the same year, when the coalition once again got a majority. [2] [8] In September 2011 the National Resurrection Party merged with the Liberal and Centre Union, which reduced the number of parties in the coalition from four to three. By April 2012 the government once again lost its majority in the Seimas.

Despite an economic crisis and the unpopular austerity measures that the government implemented to face it, the cabinet became the first government of Lithuania since independence to serve the full four-year term of the Tenth Seimas, [9] returning its mandate on 16 November 2012 [10] after the elections to the Seimas in October. The government continued to serve in an acting capacity until the Butkevičius Cabinet started its work on 13 December 2012. [11]

Cabinet

The following ministers served on Kubilius Cabinet. [6]

PositionNamePartyFromTo
Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius Homeland Union 9 December 200813 December 2012
Ministry of Agriculture Kazimieras Starkevičius Homeland Union 9 December 200813 December 2012
Ministry of Culture Remigijus Vilkaitis National Resurrection Party 9 December 20081 July 2010 [12]
Arūnas Gelūnas Independent 2 July 201013 December 2012
Ministry of Economy Dainius Kreivys Homeland Union 9 December 200817 March 2011 [13]
Rimantas Žylius Independent 17 March 201113 December 2012
Ministry of Education and Science Gintaras Steponavičius Liberal Movement 9 December 200813 December 2012
Ministry of Energy Arvydas Sekmokas Independent 10 February 2009 [14] 13 December 2012
Ministry of Environment Gediminas Kazlauskas Independent 9 December 200813 December 2012
Ministry of Finance Algirdas Šemeta Independent 9 December 200830 June 2009
Ingrida Šimonytė Independent 3 July 200913 December 2012
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vygaudas Ušackas Independent 9 December 200826 January 2010
Audronius Ažubalis Homeland Union 29 January 201013 December 2012
Ministry of Health Algis Čaplikas Liberal and Centre Union 9 December 200822 February 2010 [15]
Raimondas Šukys 1 March 201013 December 2012
Ministry of the Interior Raimundas Palaitis Liberal and Centre Union 9 December 200826 March 2012 [16]
Artūras Melianas 16 April 201213 December 2012
Ministry of Justice Remigijus Šimašius Liberal Movement 9 December 200813 December 2012
Ministry of Defence Rasa Juknevičienė Homeland Union 9 December 200813 December 2012
Ministry of Social Security and Labour Rimantas Dagys Homeland Union 9 December 200822 July 2009 [17]
Donatas Jankauskas 22 July 200913 December 2012
Ministry of Transport and Communications Eligijus Masiulis Liberal Movement 9 December 200813 December 2012

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