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Seimas
The Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas), or simply the Seimas (), is the unicameral parliament of Lithuania. The Seimas constitutes the legislative branch of government in Lithuania, enacting laws and amendments to the Constitution, passing the budget, confirming the Prime Minister and the Government and controlling their activities. Its 141 members are elected for a four-year term, with 71 elected in individual constituencies, and 70 elected in a nationwide vote based on open list proportional representation. A party must receive at least 5%, and a multi-party union at least 7%, of the national vote to qualify for the proportional representation seats. Following the elections in 2020, the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats is the largest party in the Seimas, forming a ruling coalition with the Liberal Movement and the Freedom Party. The Seimas traces its origins to the Seimas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Sejm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thirteenth Seimas Of Lithuania
The Thirteenth Seimas of Lithuania is a parliament (Seimas) in Lithuania. Elections took place on 11 October 2020, with the run-off on 25 October. The Seimas commenced its work on 13 November 2020 and is serving a four-year term. Elections In the elections in 2020, 70 members of the parliament were elected on proportional party lists and 71 in single member constituencies. Elections took place on 11 October 2020. Run-off elections were held on 25 October in the single-seat constituencies where no candidate secured a seat in the first round. Activities Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen was elected as the Speaker of the Thirteenth Seimas. The Thirteenth Seimas was marked by the COVID-19 pandemic. It affected the parliament's work (e.g. from 26 November 2020 until 3 December 2020, plenary sessions were suspended and since 12 January 2021, plenary sessions are taking place remotely). Composition Parliamentary groups After the elections, the parliamentary groups were formed in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen
Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen (born 6 August 1983) is a Lithuanian politician and chess player who is currently the speaker of the Seimas. Awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2010, she was European women's champion in 2011, and is a two-time Lithuanian champion. Čmilytė-Nielsen began her career in politics in 2015, when she was selected to replace Remigijus Šimašius in the Seimas for the Liberal Movement, and later was reelected in the 2016 parliamentary election. She began to gradually rise in the ranks of the Liberal Movement, becoming the Seimas opposition leader in 2019, and being elected chairperson of the Liberal Movement later that year. She led the party into the 2020 parliamentary election, where they won 13 seats. Early life and education Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen was born in Šiauliai. She began playing chess at age six, and was coached by her father Viktor Ivanovič Čmil, a KGB active reserve officer of Russian ethnicity. After graduating, Čmilytė-Nie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jurgis Razma
Jurgis Razma (born 14 March 1958) is a physicist, First Deputy Speaker of the Seimas, Member of the Seimas since 1996. Biography In 1965 he started attending primary school in Plungė district. In 1976, graduated from Plungė 4th Secondary School. In 1981 graduated from Vilnius State University Faculty of Physics and majored in physics. From 1981 to 1991 he was a senior engineer at the Faculty of Physics of Vilnius University. Political life When Sąjūdis was formed in 1988, he became involved in its activities. From 1991 to 1992, he was an advisor to the Prime Minister of Lithuania. Between 1992 and 1993 worked as Assistant to Member of the Seimas Tautvydas Lideikis. Also he was an Executive Secretary of the Sąjūdis since 1993 until 1995. He was Member of the Vilnius City Municipality Council and Board from 1995 to 1996. Since 1996 is a Member of the Seimas. He is Member of the Homeland Union since the establishment of the party in 1993, also Member of the Presidium and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homeland Union
The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats ( lt, Tėvynės sąjunga Lietuvos krikščionys demokratai, TS–LKD), also known colloquially simply as the Conservatives, is a centre-right political party in Lithuania. It has 18,000 members and 49 of 141 seats in the Seimas. It is the main centre-right party, with an ideology influenced by liberal conservatism, Christian democracy, nationalism and economic liberalism. Its current leader is Gabrielius Landsbergis, who replaced Andrius Kubilius in 2015. It is a member of the European People's Party (EPP) and the International Democrat Union (IDU). The party symbol since 1996 is the common house martin. Platform The Homeland Union is conservative. For most of its existence, it has explicitly defined itself as anti-communist (mainly because the main opposition party to the Homeland Union was the Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania (which was created on a basis of the Communist Party of Lithuania in 1990). After the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrius Mazuronis
Andrius Mazuronis (born 13 July 1979) is an engineer, a Deputy Speaker of the Seimas and Member of the Seimas since 2008. Biography His father is an architect and a politician Valentinas Mazuronis. He graduated from high school in Šiauliai. In 1997 he entered Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. In 2003, he completed his master's degree studies and obtained a master's degree in civil engineering. He also obtained the certificates of the special building maintenance manager and the building construction manager of a special building. From 2003 to 2008 and from 2018 to 2019 worked in the private sector. Political life He was Member of the Seimas from 2008 to 2016 and again from 2019. In 2017, he worked as an Accredited Assistant to the then MEP Antanas Guoga. From 2006 to 2015 Mazuronis belonged to the Order and Justice Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood * Heterarc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė
Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė (née Morkūnaitė; born 2 January 1984) is a Lithuanian politician. She has served as a Member of the Seimas since 2016, and has additionally served as Deputy Speaker of the Seimas since 2020 and as First Vice Chairwoman of the Homeland Union since 2021. History Prior to entering the Lithuanian parliament, Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė served as a member of the European Parliament for the European People's Party The European People's Party (EPP) is a European political party with Christian-democratic, conservative, and liberal-conservative member parties. A transnational organisation, it is composed of other political parties. Founded by primarily ... from 2009 until 2014, representing Lithuania. Between 2016 and 2020, she served as the parliamentary group's deputy chair and since 2020 as group's chair. References 1984 births Living people Politicians from Kaunas MEPs for Lithuania 2009–2014 Homeland Union MEPs Women MEP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seimas Palace
Seimas Palace ( lt, Seimo rūmai) is the seat of the Seimas, the Lithuanian parliament. It is located in Lithuania's capital Vilnius. History Work began on the construction of the first wing of the palace, a purpose-built building for the Supreme Soviet of Lithuanian SSR, in 1976. The construction was supervised by architects Algimantas Nasvytis and Vytautas Nasvytis. In 1980, 9717.37 square meters of the palace were completed. Initially, the palace was named as "Soviet Palace". Other two wings housed Ministry of Finance of Lithuanian SSR and Trade Unions Council. Later the building was expanded due to growing needs. The final phase of the palace complex consists of three wings, with the main, or first wing, housing the Parliament Hall, where legislation is passed. On 11 March 1990, Lithuania's independence was re-established in the old Parliament Hall, where the re-establishment declaration from the Soviet Union was adopted. On the same day, most of the emblems of the Lithuan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonas Jarutis
Jonas Jarutis (born 25 May 1963) is a Lithuanian politician, who from 2020 serves as Deputy Speaker of Seimas of Republic of Lithuania. Biography Jarutis was born in the village of Viekšniai, Mažeikiai District Municipality, Northern Lithuania. Jarutis graduated Viekšniai secondary school in 1981 and Šiauliai Pedagogical Institute in 1985. In 1990 he graduated from Lithuanian State Institute of Physical Education (now Lithuanian Sports University). Jarutis was one of the local activists of National Renaissance – Independence movement of late 1980’s (Sąjūdis in Lithuanian). He was among proponents and participants of return of burials of Lithuanian victims of Soviet terror from Siberia. Having worked as teacher from 1985 until 1990, he took first post of local self-government, serving as administrator of rural district (''viršaitis'' in Lithuanian) of Skapiškis in 1990–1995. Political life After rural districts were abolished in the course of 1993-1994 munic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulius Saudargas
Paulius Saudargas (born 13 March 1979 in Kaunas) is a physicist, Deputy Speaker of the Seimas, Member of the Seimas for the Justiniškės constituency since 2008 and holds a PhD in biophysics. Biography In 2001 graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Vilnius University, obtained a bachelor's degree in physics and a qualification of a physics teacher. In 2003 he obtained a master's degree in biophysics at Vilnius University, and in 2007 a PhD in biophysics, specialising in photoelectric, electroacoustic and spectroscopic studies of bacteriorhodopsin. From 1999 to 2000, he was a senior specialist in the Second Department of Operational Services under the Ministry of National Defense of Lithuania. In 2003, he worked as an engineer in the Laboratory of Electrical Quantities of the Institute of Semiconductor Physics. Between 2002 and 2007 (intermittently) he was an engineer in the Laboratory of Molecular Derivatives Physics of the Institute of Physics. Field of work – research ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilnius
Vilnius ( , ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of 592,389 (according to the state register) or 625,107 (according to the municipality of Vilnius). The population of Vilnius's functional urban area, which stretches beyond the city limits, is estimated at 718,507 (as of 2020), while according to the Vilnius territorial health insurance fund, there were 753,875 permanent inhabitants as of November 2022 in Vilnius city and Vilnius district municipalities combined. Vilnius is situated in southeastern Lithuania and is the second-largest city in the Baltic states, but according to the Bank of Latvia is expected to become the largest before 2025. It is the seat of Lithuania's national government and the Vilnius District Municipality. Vilnius is known for the architecture in its Old Town, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. The city was noted for its multicultural population already in the time of the Polish–Lithuanian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Sabatauskas
Julius Sabatauskas (born 1 April 1958 in Syktyvkar) is an engineer, a lawyer, Deputy Speaker of the Seimas and Member of the Seimas since 2000. Biography Born in Syktyvkar, Komi Republic, Russian SFSR, in a family of deportees. In 1976 graduated from high school in Jonava. 1981 graduated from Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Automation, engineer of automated control systems. 2002 graduated from Mykolas Romeris University with a master's degree in Law and Management. Political life Member of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania since 1989, member of the council since 1997. From 1990 to 1995 was a deputy of Alytus City Council, deputy chairman of the council. Since 1995 until 2003 Alytus City Councillor. 2000 was the controller of Alytus City Municipality. Since 2000 Member of the Seimas The Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas), or simply the Seimas (), is the unicameral parliament of Lithuania. The Seimas constitutes the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vytautas Mitalas
Vytautas Mitalas (born 16 June 1989 in Vilnius) is a Deputy Speaker of the Seimas and Member of the Seimas since November 2020. He is also former Vice Mayor of Vilnius. Biography He graduated with honors from Vilnius Žemyna Gymnasium. He obtained a bachelor's degree in political science and later a master's degree in public policy analysis from the Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University. During his studies, since 2008, he has been involved in the activities of political and non-governmental organizations. Mitalas was the chairman of the Vilnius Liberal Youth Organization, a national member of the Youth Affairs Council, and a member of the board of the Vilnius Union of Youth Organizations "Round Table". Political life In 2015, he was elected to the Vilnius City Municipal Council, where he became the chairman of the Committee on Culture, Education and Sports. He worked in the secretariat of the Liberal Movement and as an expert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
