Lithuania has a new head of government. President Gitanas Nausėda appointed the Social Democrat Gintautas Paluckas as the new Prime Minister of the Baltic country. The 45-year-old deputy party leader of the former opposition force had previously been confirmed by the parliament in Vilnius. Paluckas, who was nominated by the head of state on Tuesday as a candidate to head the government, was voted in by 88 MPs with 36 votes against and 6 abstentions. The previous head of government was Ingrida Šimonytė from the conservative Fatherland Union.