Former police chief approved as prime minister in Lithuania

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Members of Lithuania\'s parliament applaud Lithuania\'s Peasant and Green\'s Union (LPGU) party leader Salius Skvernelis in Vilnius, Lithuania, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016. Lithuania\'s parliament approved Skvernelis as the new prime minister on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

VILNIUS, Lithuania – Lithuania’s parliament has approved former interior minister and police chief Saulius Skvernelis as the Baltic country’s new prime minister.

Ninety lawmakers voted in favour, four against while the rest either abstained or were absent during the vote Tuesday in the 141-member assembly.

Skvernelis, 46, was proposed as prime minister by the agrarian Peasants and Greens Union, which won national elections last month and agreed to form a coalition government with the Social Democrats.

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