Overview

• Gintautas Paluckas’s resignation automatically led to the entire cabinet’s resignation under Lithuania’s constitution and the government now serves in a caretaker capacity.
• President Gitanas Nauseda must propose a new prime minister to parliament within 15 days.
• The Social Democratic Party plans to select its nominee on Wednesday, but interim leader Mindaugas Sinkevicius is barred from holding public office for three years under a court ruling.
• Key coalition partners have withdrawn support and parliamentary speaker Saulius Skvernelis has declared the three-party alliance dissolved.
• Investigators from the Financial Crime Investigation Service have searched a firm owned by Paluckas’s sister-in-law over its €173,000 in EU grants and purchases linked to a company half-owned by the former prime minister.