Prime Minister of Lithuania

The **prime minister of Lithuania** (, literally translated as **Minister-Chairman**) is the head of the Government of Lithuania. The prime minister is Lithuania's head of government and is appointed by the President.

## List

**Political parties and affiliations**:

|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Portrait|rowspan=2|Name <small>(born–died)</small>|colspan=3|Term of office|colspan=2 rowspan=2|Political party|rowspan=2|Government|rowspan=2|Seimas|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||**Kazimira Danutė Prunskienė**|17 March 1990|10 January 1991||||||||||
|Independent|Prunskienė|rowspan=4|_Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas_|||||||||||
|2|||**Albertas Šimėnas**|10 January 1991|13 January 1991|||||||||
|Independent|Šimėnas|||||||||||||
|3||**Gediminas Vagnorius**|13 January 1991|21 July 1992||||||||||
|Independent|Vagnorius I|||||||||||||
|4||**Aleksandras Abišala**|21 July 1992|26 November 1992||||||||||
|Independent|Abišala|||||||||||||
|5||**Bronislovas Lubys**|12 December 1992|10 March 1993||||||||||
|Independent|Lubys|rowspan=3|_6_|||||||||||
|6||**Adolfas Šleževičius**|10 March 1993|8 February 1996||||||||||
|Democratic Labour Party|Šleževičius|||||||||||||
|7||**Laurynas Mindaugas Stankevičius**|23 February 1996|19 November 1996||||||||||
|Democratic Labour Party|Stankevičius|||||||||||||
|||**Gediminas Vagnorius**|4 December 1996|3 May 1999||||||||||
|Homeland Union|Vagnorius II|rowspan=4|_7_|||||||||||
|8||**Rolandas Paksas**|1 June 1999|27 October 1999||||||||||
|Homeland Union|Paksas I|||||||||||||
|–||**Irena Degutienė**|27 October 1999|3 November 1999||||||||||
|Homeland Union|Paksas I|||||||||||||
|9||**Andrius Kubilius**|3 November 1999|19 October 2000||||||||||
|Homeland Union|Kubilius I|||||||||||||
|||**Rolandas Paksas**|27 October 2000|20 June 2001||||||||||
|Liberal Union|Paksas II|rowspan=3|_8_|||||||||||
|–||**Eugenijus Gentvilas**|20 June 2001|4 July 2001||||||||||
|Liberal Union|Paksas II|||||||||||||
|rowspan=2|10|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|**Algirdas Brazauskas**|rowspan=2|4 July 2001|rowspan=2|1 June 2006|rowspan=2||||
|rowspan=2|Social Democrats|rowspan=1|Brazauskas I|||||||||||
|rowspan=1|Brazauskas II|rowspan=3|_9_|||||||||||
|–||**Zigmantas Balčytis**|1 June 2006|18 July 2006||||||||||
|Social Democrats|Brazauskas II|||||||||||||
|11||**Gediminas Kirkilas**|6 July 2006|17 November 2008||||||||||
|Social Democrats|Kirkilas|||||||||||||
|||**Andrius Kubilius**|9 December 2008|13 December 2012||||||||||
|Homeland Union|Kubilius II|_10_||||||||||||
|12||**Algirdas Butkevičius**|13 December 2012|13 December 2016||||||||||
|Social Democrats|Butkevičius|_11_||||||||||||
|13||**Saulius Skvernelis**|13 December 2016|11 December 2020||||||||||
|Independent|Skvernelis|_12_||||||||||||
|14||**Ingrida Šimonytė**|11 December 2020|12 December 2024||||||||||
|Homeland Union|Šimonytė|_13_||||||||||||
|15||**Gintautas Paluckas**|12 December 2024|4 August 2025||||||||||
|Social Democrats|Paluckas|rowspan=3|_14_|||||||||||
|–||**Rimantas Šadžius**|4 August 2025|25 September 2025||||||||||
|Social Democrats|Paluckas|||||||||||||
|16||**Inga Ruginienė**|25 September 2025|_Incumbent_||||||||||
|Social Democrats|Ruginienė|||||||||||||

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Prime Minister
- **body**: Lithuania
- **native name**: Lietuvos Respublikos Ministras Pirmininkas
- **insignia**: Coat of arms of Lithuania.svg
- **insigniacaption**: Coat of arms of Lithuania
- **image**: Inga Ruginiene, Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk. Informal meeting of Social affairs Ministers (cropped).jpg
- **incumbent**: Inga Ruginienė
- **incumbentsince**: 25 September 2025
- **department**: Government of Lithuania
- **style**: Mister/Madam Prime Minister
Excellency, His/Her Excellency
- **type**: Head of government
Executive branch
- **appointer**: President of Lithuania, President with the assent of the Seimas
- **termlength**: 4 years
- **termlength qualified**: No term limit
- **first**: Augustinas Voldemaras
- **abolished**: Occupation of the Baltic states, 1940–1991
- **deputy**: Minister of Finance
- **salary**: €6,000 per month