Gintautas Paluckas

Gintautas Paluckas
Paluckas in 2025
18th Prime Minister of Lithuania
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 December 2024
President	Gitanas Nausėda
Preceded by	Ingrida Šimonytė
Chairman of the Social Democratic Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 May 2025
Preceded by	Vilija Blinkevičiūtė
In office 6 May 2017 – 22 January 2021
Preceded by	Algirdas Butkevičius
Succeeded by	Vilija Blinkevičiūtė
Member of the Seimas
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 November 2020
Constituency	Multi-member
Deputy Mayor of Vilnius
In office 22 April 2015 – 24 April 2019
Mayor	Remigijus Šimašius
Preceded by	Jonas Pinskus
Succeeded by	Vytautas Mitalas
Personal details
Born	(1979-08-19) 19 August 1979 (age 45) Panevėžys, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	Social Democratic (2003–present)
Spouse	Ilma Paluckė
Children	2
Education	Juozas Balčikonis Gymnasium
Alma mater	Vilnius University

Gintautas Paluckas (Lithuanian: [ˈɡʲɪntˠɐʊtˠɐs pˠɐˈlˠʊtskɐs]; born 19 August 1979) is a Lithuanian politician who has served as the 18th prime minister of Lithuania since December 2024. He was previously Deputy Mayor of Vilnius from 2015 to 2019, led the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) between 2017 and 2021, and has been a member of the Seimas since the 2020 election. In 2025, Paluckas returned as LSDP leader after Vilija Blinkevičiūtė decided not to run for another term.

In the 2024 Lithuanian parliamentary election, Paluckas ran in the single-member constituency of Utena but finished third. Despite this, the LSDP won the overall election, and Paluckas secured a seat in the Seimas via the party's proportional representation list. Subsequently, he was nominated and confirmed as Prime Minister of Lithuania.^[1] The inclusion of the Dawn of Nemunas in the ruling coalition sparked controversy and condemnation from human rights organizations and Lithuania's Jewish community.^[2][3]