| Irena Degutienė | |
| Office1: | Deputy Speaker of the Seimas |
| Term Start1: | 16 November 2012 |
| Term End1: | 13 November 2020 |
| Office4: | Prime Minister of Lithuania |
| President4: | Valdas Adamkus |
| Term Start4: | 27 October 1999 |
| Term End4: | 3 November 1999 |
| Predecessor4: | Rolandas Paksas |
| Successor4: | Andrius Kubilius |
| President5: | Valdas Adamkus |
| Term Start5: | 4 May 1999 |
| Term End5: | 18 May 1999 |
| Predecessor5: | Gediminas Vagnorius |
| Successor5: | Rolandas Paksas |
| Office2: | Speaker of the Seimas |
| Term Start2: | 17 September 2009 |
| Term End2: | 14 September 2012 |
| Predecessor2: | Arūnas Valinskas |
| Successor2: | Vydas Gedvilas |
| Office3: | First Deputy Speaker of the Seimas |
| Term Start3: | 20 November 2008 |
| Term End3: | 16 September 2009 |
| Predecessor3: | Algis Čaplikas |
| Successor3: | Raimondas Šukys |
| Office6: | Minister for Social Security and Labour |
| Primeminister6: | Gediminas Vagnorius |
| Term Start6: | 4 December 1996 |
| Term End6: | 27 October 2000 |
| Predecessor6: | Mindaugas Mikaila |
| Successor6: | Vilija Blinkevičiūtė |
| Office7: | Member of Seimas |
| Constituency9: | Multi-member |
| Term Start9: | 25 November 1996 |
| Term End9: | 14 November 2004 |
| Constituency8: | Naujamiestis |
| Term Start8: | 15 November 2004 |
| Term End8: | 14 November 2016 |
| Predecessor8: | Vytautas Kvietkauskas |
| Successor8: | Žygimantas Pavilionis |
| Constituency7: | Multi-member |
| Term Start7: | 14 November 2016 |
| Term End7: | 13 November 2020 |
| Birth Date: | 1 June 1949 |
| Birth Place: | Šiauliai, Lithuania |
| Party: | Homeland Union |
| Spouse: | Gediminas Degutis |
| Alma Mater: | Vilnius University |
Irena Degutienė (born 1 June 1949) is a Lithuanian politician and member of the conservative Homeland Union. She is currently the Deputy Speaker of Seimas, and 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 Speaker of Seimas from 15 September 2009 to 14 September 2012, as well as Minister for Social Security and Labour from 1996 to 2000. In 1978, she graduated from Vilnius University with a degree in medicine. For almost twenty years, she worked in Vilnius Red Cross Hospital before becoming a secretary in the Ministry of Health in 1994. She was initially elected to Seimas in 1996. Degutienė is the first woman to be Speaker of Seimas in Lithuania's history.[1]
In 2017, Eligijus Masiulis 250-thousand-euro bribery scandal[2] sparked one of the largest corruption investigations in Lithuania's history.[3] Secret surveillance by VSD revealed that MG Baltic, a Lithuanian conglomerate,[4] has been exerting influence and systematically bribing prosecutors, politicians and government bureaucrats.[5] [6] [7] Irena Degutienė is implicated in the corruption scandal – MG Baltic preferred and favoured her nomination as head of her political party.[8]
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