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Vilnius University.
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Irena Degutiene
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Career
She was twice the acting Prime Minister of Lithuania, first from 4 May 1999 to 18 May 1999 and then from 27 October 1999 to 3 November 1999. She has also been the Minister for Social Security and Labour from 1996 to 2000. In 1978, she graduated from Vilnius University with a degree in medicine.
Foreign almost twenty years, she worked in Vilnius Red Cross Hospital before becoming a secretary in the Ministry of Health in 1994.
In 1996, she was elected to Seimas and re-elected in 2000. On 15 September 2009 Irena Degutienė became Speaker of Seimas, a position she held until 14 September 2012.
She is the first woman to hold such position in Lithuania"s history.
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Political Party
Homeland Union