Albertas Šimėnas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Albertas Šimėnas

Prime Minister of Linthuania

Date of Birth: 17-Feb-1950

Place of Birth: Anykščiai, Utena County, Lithuania

Profession: politician, economist, university teacher

Nationality: Lithuania

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Albertas Šimėnas

  • Albertas Šimenas (born February 17, 1950) was Prime Minister of Lithuania for 3 days, from January 10 to January 13, 1991.
  • He disappeared during the January Events and was replaced by Gediminas Vagnorius. Šimenas graduated from the Vilnius University in 1972 with a degree in economics.
  • He lectured at the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University from 1984 to 1989.
  • He joined activities of Sajudis movement and was elected to the Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas.
  • On March 11, 1990, he signed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, declaring Lithuania's independence from the Soviet Union.
  • In January 1991, when the first government led by Kazimira Prunskiene resigned due to rising prices, Šimenas became the Prime Minister of a largely unchanged government.
  • However, as the Soviet Army entered Vilnius and surrounded key buildings, Šimenas disappeared.
  • In an emergency session, Gediminas Vagnorius took over his cabinet and became the Prime Minister.
  • Šimenas suddenly reappeared on January 14.
  • He joined Vagnorius' government as the Minister of Economy on May 30, 1991, and served until the government resigned on July 21, 1992.
  • In 1994, he joined the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party and was elected to the Seventh Seimas in 1996.
  • He ran unsuccessfully in the 2004 Seimas and European Parliament elections, after which he joined the private sector. Šimenas published several academic papers on economy and a monograph about economic reforms in Lithuania from 1990 to 1994.

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