About Dalia Grybauskaitė
Dalia Grybauskaitė (born 1 March 1956) is a Lithuanian politician who served as the eighth president of Lithuania from 2009 to 2019. She is the first and so far only woman to hold the position and in 2014 she became the first President of Lithuania to be reelected for a second consecutive term. Grybauskaitė has served as Minister of Finance, as well as European Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget from 2004 to 2009. She is often referred to as the "Iron Lady", or the "Steel Magnolia". Grybauskaitė presented a 2008 EU budget in which, for the first time in its history, spending on growth and employment constituted the highest share of the budget, exceeding that of agriculture and natural resources. Grybauskaitė won in a landslide, receiving 69.1% of the valid vote. Grybauskaitė began participating in sports at the age of eleven, and became a passionate basketball player.
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