Inga Ruginienė
Lietuvos socialdemokratų partijos frakcija
Oficialus Seimo profilis ↗Inga Ruginienė yra Lietuvos politikė ir visuomenės veikėja, gimusi 1981 m. gegužės 24 d., Trakuose. Ji turi magistro laipsnį visuomenės sveikatos srityje, bakalauro laipsnį miškininkystės valdyme ir darbo teisės magistrą. Ruginienė turi daugiametę patirtį profesinių sąjungų srityje, yra buvusi įvairių profesinių sąjungų vadovė, nuo 2024 m. lapkričio narė Seime, 2024–2025 m. Socialinės apsaugos ir darbo ministrė, o nuo 2025 m. rugpjūčio – Lietuvos Ministrė Pirmininkė.
Inga Ruginienė is married.
She is proficient in English and Russian.
Ruginienė’s husband, Vismantas Ruginis, is an entrepreneur in the printing and packaging industry – he owns the plastic film company “Ekonota” and half of the printing plate company “Magnio forma,” and he serves as the director of an equipment trading firm “Poligrafa.”
At the LPSK congress on 11 May 2018, Ruginienė was elected Chair of the Lithuanian Trade Union Confederation, defeating incumbent Artūras Černiauskas by 77 votes to 75.
On 26 August 2025, the Seimas approved Inga Ruginienė as Prime Minister of Lithuania with 78 votes in favor, 35 against, and 14 abstentions.
On 6 August 2025, the Social Democratic Party’s presidium nominated Ruginienė as its candidate for Prime Minister following the resignation of Gintautas Paluckas.
She assumed the Prime Minister’s office in 2025 after the resignation of her predecessor Gintautas Paluckas, who stepped down amid a corruption scandal.
Inga Ruginienė became a member of the Seimas (Lithuanian Parliament) on 14 November 2024, representing the Social Democratic Party via its electoral list.
In 2024, Ruginienė entered politics by joining the Social Democratic Party and standing as a candidate in that year’s parliamentary elections.
She was a member of the Seimas Committee on Human Rights from 19 November 2024 until 26 September 2025.
On 19 December 2024, she joined the Seimas’ temporary group “Against Mass Immigration” as a member.
In December 2024, Ruginienė joined the Seimas interparliamentary groups for relations with Azerbaijan, the United Kingdom, Canada, South Korea, and Ukraine.
On 21 November 2024, Ruginienė became Deputy Chair of the Seimas’ temporary parliamentary group for forest preservation.
In the 2024 parliamentary elections, Ruginienė advanced to the run-off (second round) in the Naujininkai–Rasų single-member constituency. She ultimately lost that race by a very narrow margin (under 50 votes), which led the election commission to order a recount of the votes in that district to verify the result.
In the October 2024 parliamentary elections, the Social Democratic Party won 52 seats, and Ruginienė was elected to the Seimas as one of its candidates.
In the 2024 parliamentary elections, Ruginienė was placed 3rd on the Social Democratic Party’s candidate list (behind Vilija Blinkevičiūtė and Gintautas Paluckas).
She also ran as a candidate in the single-member Naujininkai–Rasų constituency in 2024, but was not elected there; instead, she entered the Seimas via the party’s multi-member list.
The Social Democratic Party emerged as the leading party in the 2024 Seimas elections – its list received the largest share of the national vote, and the party secured 52 out of 141 parliamentary seats.
By mid-2025, as a government minister, Ruginienė’s declared personal assets consisted of €45,000 in cash savings, with no real estate, land, or other valuables – making her one of the least wealthy members of the Cabinet (only Environment Minister Povilas Poderskis had less, at €2,000).
As Prime Minister in 2025, her salary is significantly higher – about €8,700 per month (gross), which is approximately €5,300 after taxes.
By mid-2025, as a government minister, Ruginienė’s declared personal assets consisted of €45,000 in cash savings, with no real estate, land, or other valuables – making her one of the least wealthy members of the Cabinet (only Environment Minister Povilas Poderskis had less, at €2,000).
During her tenure as Minister of Social Security and Labour (late 2024–2025), Ruginienė’s official salary was roughly €4,520 per month (gross, before taxes) – the lowest ministerial salary in the Lithuanian government at that time.
As of early 2024, before entering the Seimas, she had declared total assets of approximately €25,840.
According to 2024 VMI data, Ruginienė and her husband together declared about €238,000 in assets. She herself had €45,000 in bank savings, while her spouse Vismantas Ruginis owned around €144,000 worth of residential property, €24,000 in land, €13,500 in corporate stock, and €11,300 in cash. The couple reported no outstanding loans.
In her 2024 election disclosure, Ruginienė reported an annual personal income of €43,466 (for the previous year).
In November 2025, Prime Minister Ruginienė launched a public contest to rename the term for “childcare leave” (maternity leave), arguing that it is not really a vacation; the proposal immediately drew criticism.
Her nomination as Prime Minister in August 2025 triggered protests outside the Seimas and the Presidential Palace.
It was revealed in 2025 that Ruginienė had visited Russia in 2015 and 2018 (after Russia’s annexation of Crimea), and that she has relatives in Russia – details that raised concerns among some Lithuanian MPs during her nomination as Prime Minister.
In 2025, Forbes magazine included Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė in its list of the world’s 100 most influential women, ranking her 81st.