“I have left voluntarily. I do not want to make any trouble to either the ministry or the coalition, particularly as the passions run so high. So much has to be discussed because of me hence I’d better let everyone calm down,” Zaremba, who was delegated to this position by the Labor Party, told BNS.
Daiva Rimašauskaitė, an adviser to the energy minister, confirmed to BNS on Tuesday that Zaremba had been dismissed as deputy minister.
“We do confirm that he has submitted a letter of resignation and the minister has accepted it. His dismissal comes into effect today,” Rimašauskaitė told BNS.
Sources told BNS that the order, under which Zaremba was dismissed on Tuesday, was signed by Energy Minister Jaroslav Neverovič last week.
Labor Party leader, Viktor Uspaskich, told BNS on Tuesday that Zaremba might be nominated to this position once again after mid-March, i.e. after the expiry of the term, established by the Chief Official Ethics Commission, during which he could not be admitted to public service.
The commission stated in mid-January that Zaremba could not have been appointed as Lithuania’s deputy energy minister. According to the watchdog, Zaremba was appointed as deputy minister less than a year after the ethics guards found last March that his failure to opt out of discussions of the issues related with his then employer Vilniaus Energija (Vilnius Energy) at the Vilnius municipality confused public and private interests.
