Interpellation against Semeta fails
May 21, 2009
By Adam Mullett

SAVING SKINS: The Seimas (Lithuanian parliament) voted to allow the finance minister to keep his post after the committee that had been set up to rule on the matter came to a hung vote.
VILNIUS - Algirdas Semeta will remain in the finance minister’s post following a failed interpellation vote against him on May 19 that ended with only 56 votes out of a possible 141 in favor of removing him from office.
Kubilius praised the minister, whose name has also been mentioned for the European budget commissioner’s post which is soon to be vacated by President-elect Dalia Grybauskaite.
“The first thing [is that] he is really professional and highly skilled – something that hasn’t bee ...
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