VILNIUS — Acting Prosecutor General Raimondas Petrauskas will be wondering what he did wrong after the permanent prosecutor’s job was offered to someone else.

Petrauskas has been in charge of the country’s Prosecutor General’s Office since February when Algimantas Valantinas resigned from the post after public uproar over the handling of the cases that allegedly led to Drąsius Kedys to kill two people in Kaunas last year.

Though she is yet to comment on the offer, Nijolė Požarskienė has been put forward by [private_supervisor]President Dalia Grybauskaitė as a candidate to take over the post permanently for a seven-year term.

Požarskienė, who currently heads the prosecution in the Palanga district, will need to be approved by the parliament before getting the keys to the office.

Grybauskaitė told local media that Petrauskas had been overlooked because of his performance while in the temporary role.

Most recenly Petrauskas upset the president by trying to use his inside knowledge of the legal system to serupticiously cancel the country’s first gay pride parade, which was held on May 8. He was said to have done so to please conservative politicians in the Seimas who would have held the power to elect him.

Just days before the parade was supposed to go ahead he used his position citing unnamed sources that said that the gay parade would be attacked and that there was the possibility of a riot.

Under normal circumstances, there would not have been enough time for the court to rule, but after the organizers appealed, political will pushed through the decision to allow the parade. The parade went off successfully without any safety breaches.

During the parade, Social Democrat parliamentarian Marija Aušrinė Pavilionienė told Baltic Reports that the failed attempt to cancel the parade had cost him dearly.

“I pity him. I just pity him. He does not understand and maybe he had a hope that after this he would get the permanent place in the prosecutor’s position, but his hopes were ruined by the court’s decision to uphold the permit [to hold the parade],” Pavilionienė said.

Prosecutor generals in Lithuania serve for seven years and can only be taken down by the president at the behest of the Seimas. [/private_supervisor] [private_subscription 1 month]President Dalia Grybauskaitė as a candidate to take over the post permanently for a seven-year term.

Požarskienė, who currently heads the prosecution in the Palanga district, will need to be approved by the parliament before getting the keys to the office.

Grybauskaitė told local media that Petrauskas had been overlooked because of his performance while in the temporary role.

Most recenly Petrauskas upset the president by trying to use his inside knowledge of the legal system to serupticiously cancel the country’s first gay pride parade, which was held on May 8. He was said to have done so to please conservative politicians in the Seimas who would have held the power to elect him.

Just days before the parade was supposed to go ahead he used his position citing unnamed sources that said that the gay parade would be attacked and that there was the possibility of a riot.

Under normal circumstances, there would not have been enough time for the court to rule, but after the organizers appealed, political will pushed through the decision to allow the parade. The parade went off successfully without any safety breaches.

During the parade, Social Democrat parliamentarian Marija Aušrinė Pavilionienė told Baltic Reports that the failed attempt to cancel the parade had cost him dearly.

“I pity him. I just pity him. He does not understand and maybe he had a hope that after this he would get the permanent place in the prosecutor’s position, but his hopes were ruined by the court’s decision to uphold the permit [to hold the parade],” Pavilionienė said.

Prosecutor generals in Lithuania serve for seven years and can only be taken down by the president at the behest of the Seimas. [/private_subscription 1 month] [private_subscription 4 months]President Dalia Grybauskaitė as a candidate to take over the post permanently for a seven-year term.

Požarskienė, who currently heads the prosecution in the Palanga district, will need to be approved by the parliament before getting the keys to the office.

Grybauskaitė told local media that Petrauskas had been overlooked because of his performance while in the temporary role.

Most recenly Petrauskas upset the president by trying to use his inside knowledge of the legal system to serupticiously cancel the country’s first gay pride parade, which was held on May 8. He was said to have done so to please conservative politicians in the Seimas who would have held the power to elect him.

Just days before the parade was supposed to go ahead he used his position citing unnamed sources that said that the gay parade would be attacked and that there was the possibility of a riot.

Under normal circumstances, there would not have been enough time for the court to rule, but after the organizers appealed, political will pushed through the decision to allow the parade. The parade went off successfully without any safety breaches.

During the parade, Social Democrat parliamentarian Marija Aušrinė Pavilionienė told Baltic Reports that the failed attempt to cancel the parade had cost him dearly.

“I pity him. I just pity him. He does not understand and maybe he had a hope that after this he would get the permanent place in the prosecutor’s position, but his hopes were ruined by the court’s decision to uphold the permit [to hold the parade],” Pavilionienė said.

Prosecutor generals in Lithuania serve for seven years and can only be taken down by the president at the behest of the Seimas. [/private_subscription 4 months] [private_subscription 1 year]President Dalia Grybauskaitė as a candidate to take over the post permanently for a seven-year term.

Požarskienė, who currently heads the prosecution in the Palanga district, will need to be approved by the parliament before getting the keys to the office.

Grybauskaitė told local media that Petrauskas had been overlooked because of his performance while in the temporary role.

Most recenly Petrauskas upset the president by trying to use his inside knowledge of the legal system to serupticiously cancel the country’s first gay pride parade, which was held on May 8. He was said to have done so to please conservative politicians in the Seimas who would have held the power to elect him.

Just days before the parade was supposed to go ahead he used his position citing unnamed sources that said that the gay parade would be attacked and that there was the possibility of a riot.

Under normal circumstances, there would not have been enough time for the court to rule, but after the organizers appealed, political will pushed through the decision to allow the parade. The parade went off successfully without any safety breaches.

During the parade, Social Democrat parliamentarian Marija Aušrinė Pavilionienė told Baltic Reports that the failed attempt to cancel the parade had cost him dearly.

“I pity him. I just pity him. He does not understand and maybe he had a hope that after this he would get the permanent place in the prosecutor’s position, but his hopes were ruined by the court’s decision to uphold the permit [to hold the parade],” Pavilionienė said.

Prosecutor generals in Lithuania serve for seven years and can only be taken down by the president at the behest of the Seimas. [/private_subscription 1 year]

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