49 newcomers will work in the Thirteenth Seimas, 11 MPs will return after the break

The Conservatives who won the election will have the highest number of newcomers, and the future faction of the Freedom Party will have the highest proportion of those who have never worked at the Seimas. Most of the newcomers to national politics come from the municipalities.

Union of the Homeland-Lithuanian Christian Democrats. The Conservatives who won the election will have 16 newcomers to the Seimas and one MP who will return to the Seimas after the break. This is Laima Liucija Andrikienė, who served as a parliamentarian for several terms almost 30 years ago.

In addition to L. Andrikienė, nine newcomers entered the party’s electoral list: Liuda Pociūnienė, member of the Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission, Jurgita Sejonienė, doctor, member of the Lithuanian Medical Movement, Dalia Asanavičiūtė, former Community spokesperson Lithuanian in the UK, Gabriel Matas Maldeikis advisor, Vilnius City Council member Arūnas Valinskas, historian Valdas Rakutis, psychiatrist Linas Slušnys, former Šilalė district mayor Jonas Gudauskas, teacher, public figure Kristijonas Bartoševičius.

Four new future MPs won in single-member electoral districts: Jurgita Šiugždinien of, member of the Kaunas City Council, Mindaugas Ling ex, former adviser to President Dalia Grybauskaitė, Antanas Čepononis, Mayor of Radviliškis municipal district, former member of the Armed Forces Lithuania Arvydas Pocius, Audrius Petrošius, member of the municipal council of Marijampolė Andrius Vyšniauskas, former director of the Territorial Labor Exchange of Klaipėda Mindaugas Skritulskas.

Union of Peasants and Greens. The “peasants” will have a total of seven newcomers to parliament. In addition, after the break, Laima Mogenienó returned to the Seimas, having served as a parliamentarian in 2004-2008, and is now an advisor to the first vice-president of the Seimas Rima Baškienė. L. Mogenienė entered Seimas through the match list.

In the same way, the Minister of Social Security and Labor Linas Kukuraitis, the Chancellor of the Government Algirdas Stončaitis and their first deputy Lukas Savickas entered the Seimas in the same way.

Ligita Girskienė, Member of the Klaipėda Municipal Council, Laima Nagienė, Former Director of the Mažeikiai District Municipal Administration, Giedrius Surplys, Advisor to Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, and Deividas Labanavičius, Deputy Mayor of Panevėžys, obtained the parliamentary mandate in districts a single member.

Liberal movement. Three newcomers will work in the 13-member Liberal Movement faction: Romualdas Vaitkus, director of the Tauragė Regional Museum elected from a single-member constituency, Raimundas Lopata, a political scientist from Vilnius University, and Andrius Bagdonas, a member long-term of the Municipal Council of Neringa.

Former MP Arminas Lydeka returns to the Seimas after a break in his term. He was a Member of Parliament during the periods 2000-2012 and 2014-2016.

Lithuanian Social Democratic Party. Of the 13 representatives in the new term, seven newcomers and Orinta Leiputė, the vice president of the party who returns to the Seimas after the break, will work. She was elected a member of the Seimas for the period 2012-2016, and in recent years she has advised the mayor of Kaunas on youth issues, worked as a methodologist at the Center for the Development of Qualifications and Vocational Training.

Gintautas Paluckas, who has led the party since 2017, had never been a member of the Seimas before; previously he was director of administration and deputy mayor of Vilnius Municipality. He was elected to the Seimas according to the party’s list, but he can still win in the single-member constituency of Utena, where the votes of voters for conservative Edmundas Pupinis and his opponent were evenly distributed.

Vilija Targamadzė, an education expert and professor at Vilnius University, and Linas Jonauskas, the party’s executive secretary, former Deputy Minister for the Environment in the Social Democratic Government from 2012-2016, were also included on the party’s list.

Tomas Bičiūnas, a geography teacher at the Kėdainiai Light and Kėdainiai Juozas Paukštelis gyms, will also work at the Seimas. Sabutis. They are elected from single member constituencies.

Freedom Party. The Freedom Party, which is making its debut at the Seimas, will have the largest participation, that is, ten newcomers; only its sole president, Aušrinė Armonaitė, has experience working as a politician at the Seimas. She was elected to the list of the Liberal Movement four years ago and, separated from them, she founded the Freedom Party with other colleagues and became a mixed group of Seimas members. This time she was elected in the new Lithuanian constituency of the single-member world.

Most of the party representatives come to work from the Vilnius mayor’s team or from the capital city council, where A. Armonaitė herself worked before joining the Seimas.

This is Evelina Dobrovolska, a lawyer specializing in cases of national minorities, Kasparas Adomaitis, a graduate in psychology and comparative politics, who works as an analyst at Euromonitor International, an activist for the rights of sexual minorities and a specialist in politics and human rights who does not hide his homosexuality, Vytautas Raskevičius information technology specialist Monika Ošmianskienė.

In addition, two politicians who have already become familiar with their work in the Seimas will come to the Seimas from the municipality of the capital: Ieva Pakarklytė, advisor to the mayor of Vilnius, Remigijus Šimašius. 2016 at the Seimas as assistant to the liberal Gintaras Steponavičius.

Newcomers to the Freedom Party in parliament include Morgana Danielė, a graduate in philology specializing in drug policy, who has worked at the Republican Center for Addictive Diseases, and former rector of Vilnius University, physicist Artūras Žukauskas .

Two sole members were also elected: the translator, director and specialist in political science Marius Matijošaitis, pedagogue, director of the Elektrėnai Silva Lengvinienė Vocational Training Center.

Party work. Darbiečiai will have four newcomers to parliament and three politicians who have been members of the Seimas before, namely Vytautas Gapšys, who served in parliament from 2008 to 2016, and Viktoras Fiodorovas, the head of the Labor Party headquarters from 2012 to 2016. .

So far: Vaida Giraitytė, deputy director of the Marijampolė Social Assistance Center, Ieva Kačinskaitė-Urbonienė, member of the Vilnius municipal council, Antanas Guoga, businessman, former member of the European Parliament, Vigilijus Jukna, former minister of Agriculture, Aidas Gedvilas, member of the Vilnius municipal council

All the newcomers entered the Seimas through the party list.

Lithuanian Social Democratic Labor Party. After the break, two “social workers” will return to the Seimas. Zigmantas Balčytis, a former Finance Minister, was elected as a single-member constituency, was elected as a member of parliament in 2000-2009 and was the Lithuanian representative in the European Parliament for two decades. Jonas Pinskus, who was a member of the Seimas in 2004-2011 and currently works as an advisor to the Minister of Economy and Innovation Rimantas Sinkevičius, was also elected in the single-member constituency.

Lithuanian Polish Election Campaign – Union of Christian Families. Among the three party representatives who joined the Seimas, the only newcomer is Beata Petkevič, a Šalčininkai district politician elected from a single-member constituency.

Standing out on your own. For the first time, the current Deputy Mayor of Šiauliai Domas Griškevičius will serve in the Lithuanian Parliament. The former mayor of Biržai, Valdemaras Valkiūnas, now in Biržai City Hall, will also return to the Seimas after a break of nearly a decade. The politician worked at the Seimas in 2008-2012.