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Lithuania’s newly elected parliament has chosen as its new speaker a popular television talent show host once convicted of placing a prank call about a bomb in a hotel.

剛就任的立陶宛國會（議員）選出新任議長，這位議長是電視熱門才藝節目主持人，曾因在惡作劇電話中指旅館有炸彈而遭判刑。

The speaker is first in line to lead the ex-Soviet state, which joined the European Union and NATO in 2004, if the president dies in office or is dismissed.

如果總統在任內死亡或遭解職，議長將是接掌這個前蘇聯國家的第一順位；立陶宛到2004年才加入歐盟及北約組織。

Lithuania’s center-right opposition beat a Social Democrat-led coalition last month in elections dominated by voters’ worries about economic slowdown and double-digit inflation.

立陶宛中間偏右的反對黨在上個月的選舉中，擊敗社會民主黨領導的聯盟，這場選舉的主導力量是選民對經濟（成長）趨緩與兩位數通膨的憂慮。

The 141-member parliament, the Seimas, elected Arunas Valinskas by a vote of 79 to 58 in a second ballot late on Monday after he failed to get a majority in the first vote.

稱為「塞馬斯」的國會有141席，議員在週一晚間第二輪投票以79票對58票選出阿魯納斯．瓦林斯卡司；他在第一輪投票時沒有取得過半選票。

Valinskas was sentenced in 1999 for placing a hoax call to the police about a bomb he said had been planted in a hotel where his friends’ wedding was taking place.

瓦林斯卡司在1999年因惡作劇報案電話遭到判刑，他當時指稱在他朋友結婚典禮的旅館內安裝了1枚炸彈。

It was meant to be a joke for a couple for whom Valinskas acted as matchmaker, but the court fined him 15,000 Lithuanian litas, which he delivered in a huge pile of small coins in a trailer.

擔任兩人（新婚夫婦）媒人的瓦林斯卡司原本只是想開新人玩笑，但法院卻判他15,000立陶宛立特的罰金，他事後用拖車載了一大堆硬幣繳交。

新聞辭典

prank call：prank，名詞，胡鬧、惡作劇；prank call即為惡作劇電話。下文的hoax call同意。

economic slowdown：片語，經濟成長趨緩。economic recession則是經濟衰退，意指經濟甚至出現負成長。

deliver：動詞，履行、實現。to deliver one’s promise（履行諾言）。

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