VILNIUS, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Dalia Grybauskaite, the first Lithuanian female president, won her second term on Sunday with 57.87 percent of votes, according to the figures released by the Central Electoral Commission on Monday.
"I'm happy that we will continue to decide together what kind of Lithuania we want," said Grybauskaite at a press conference in capital Vilnius on Monday.
"The consolidation of energy independence, transparency, euro adoption will be essential and, no doubts, contingence of the country," she continued.
According to the re-elected president, the results of elections show that there is some shift in the political mood of Lithuanian people.
"The majority in parliament, which we have now, is now as it is. It only depends on majority itself if it wants to change," Grybauskaite said, adding that the country president's powers are limited in this case.
Nevertheless, Grybauskaite said she would discuss with prime minister, social democrat Algirdas Butkevicius, about the future of the current governing majority.
Grybauskaite also said she would seek for cooperation with Russia but won't let push Lithuania.
"We are ready to cooperate with Russia, but we will never let it put pressure on us, pushing us and ordering us what Lithuania should do," continued re-elected president.
The leader said she did not plan any exclusive inauguration party. "I don't plan any expensive and exclusive ceremony. I believe this money can be used for better purposes rather than parties and fireworks", said Grybauskaite.
Grybauskaite was registered as an independent candidate, as in her first election. Lithuanian Conservatives and the Liberals Movement have expressed their support for the leader.
"I want and I must help Lithuania become a country of opportunity for honest people in order that Lithuania would not disperse, and to prevent our freedom and welfare from being stolen or traded," the leader said in February, when she announced about running for the second term.
Widely known for her straightforward and steely speaking, Grybauskaite is sometimes dubbed Lithuania's "Iron Lady", the nickname of former British PM Margaret Thatcher.
The Lithuanian leader is sometimes criticized for being controlling and even arrogant. According to analysts, her firm stance in the current geopolitical situation, mostly involving Ukraine and Russia, was one of the decisive factors for the leader to be re-elected.
Grybauskaite's foreign policy is based on the country's irrevocable further integration with the EU and membership in NATO.
According to Grybauskaite, these alliances give Lithuania not only military, political and economic security guarantees, but also signify a relationship with other nations based on "democratic values, mutual trust and respect."
Grybauskaite claims that the energy independence is the essential condition for Lithuania's development, referring to the LNG terminal due to start operating in December this year. The terminal in the port city of Klaipeda is to end the Baltic country's dependence on Russia's gas.
She strongly supports Lithuania's aim to introduce euro in January next year, saying that benefits of euro for the Baltic country will be undeniable.
According to Grybauskaite, member states of monetary union are already the main trade partners of Lithuania, hence, after adopting euro, trade volume, exports and investments will increase.
She declares remorseless fight again corruption and tax evasion in the country, while encouraging stable and business-friendly tax system.
Among her merits, the current president has been praised for well-run Lithuania's presidency in the EU, in the second half of 2013.
Born in 1956 in Vilnius, Grybauskaite studied political economy in the Russian city of Leningrad -- today's St Petersburg.
During Soviet times, from 1983 to 1984, she was working in Vilnius High Party School, the fact which is widely used by the president's critics.
A senior civil servant since Lithuania's independence in 1990, she started to accumulate her experience in diplomatic work, acting as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Lithuanian Mission to the EU in 1994 and as Minister Plenipotentiary at the Lithuanian Embassy in the United States from 1996 to 1999.
She served as finance minister from 2001 to 2004. In 2004, the year when Lithuania joined the EU, Grybauskaite was appointed EU commissioner responsible for financial programming and budget.
In 2009, she secured a little more than 68 percent support in the first round of elections. It was the largest margin of victory ever recorded in Lithuania's presidential election history.
Apart from her black belt in karate, the president, who is unmarried and childless, gives few public details about her personal life.
The president speaks English, Russian, Polish and basic French.
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