Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė
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Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė MP |
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Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė in 2011
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| Member of the Seimas | |
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In office 17 November 2012 – 17 February 2016 |
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| Minister of Health of Lithuania | |
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In office 17 July 2014 – 17 February 2016 |
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| President | Dalia Grybauskaitė |
| Preceded by | Vytenis Andriukaitis |
| Succeeded by | Juras Požela |
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25 February 1954 Varniai, Lithuania |
| Political party |
Communist Party of Lithuania (1986-1990) Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania (1990-2001) Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (2012-) |
| Alma mater | Vilnius University |
Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė (born 25 February 1954, Varniai, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian lawyer, ombudsman, and political and public figure.
From 1971 to 1976, Šalaševičiūtė studied at the Vilnius University Faculty of Law. She taught at many different universities before becoming a politician.
From 1990 to 1995, she was the Vilnius City Council Secretariat Secretary-consultant. From 1995 to 2003, she was a Seimas ombudsman advisor, and from 2003 to 2005, she was a Seimas Ombudsman herself. She was also a Lithuanian national UNICEF board member. She was a member of the Seimas from 2012 to 2016, and, from 2014 to 2016, in the government of Algirdas Butkevičius, the Minister of Health of Lithuania. From 2001 onward, she is a member of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party. In February 2016, however, she stepped down from both the Seimas and as the Minister of Health after she publicly admitted to giving a bribe to a doctor.
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