Athletes in the Seimas elections: few victories and many painful fiascos Sports

The future Seimas will once again have an Olympic champion and a European champion among the parliamentarians.

Former disco king Virgilijus Alekna and the winner of several European chess championships, Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, held strong positions in politics with the Liberal Movement.

The leader of this party, V.Čmilytė-Nielsen, kept the first position in the ranking, V. Alekna came in fourth place and both will be among the liberals of the Seimas of the next legislature who have kept the mandates of the members of the Seimas.

V.Čmilytė-Nielsen still has a chance to help his team, because in the one-man district Old Town-Žv -rynas they entered the second round, with 28.7 percent. voices and stragglers behind Mykolas Majauskas by hair.

V. Alekna held third place in the Naujamiestis-Naujininkai district with 9.9 percent. votes, but the door of the Seimas was left open to him by his high place in the list of the Liberal Movement.

The second round could be fatal for conservative Sergei Jovaiša, who is fighting in the Deltuva-Norte district.

Former Lithuanian basketball and Kaunas team player “Žalgiris” collected 22.2 percent. votes and advanced to the second round along with Tom Tomilin (23.5 percent). S. Jovaiša kept the 37th place on the list of the Union of the Fatherland, so the second path is still possible: the success of his colleagues in the second round of the elections on October 25 can open its doors to the Seimas.

The political debut was not dizzying for world and European track cycling champion Simona Krupeckaitė.

A cyclist preparing for the Tokyo Olympics (fourth in her career), who joined the Social Democratic Party, competed in the Nevėžis district, but came fourth, with 10.2 percent. votes. He is ranked 25th among Social Democrats, so a 37-year-old athlete will be able to focus on the end of a sports career.

Hundreds of thousands of promotional brochures and promotional videos did not help the basketball stars involved in the “Lithuania – All” political movement.

The party led by Tomas Pasčes did not exceed 1%, collecting 0.96%. votes and was fourteenth among the seventeen parties that participated in the elections.

Basketball coaches and players, who have become the face of “Lithuania – all”, also did not win the trust of the single-member constituency.

Olympic champion Valdemaras Chomičius edged out Minister Jaroslav Narkevičius, but remained sixth with 5.4 percent. votes in the Centro-Žaliakalnis constituency in Kaunas.

T. Pačės himself remained seventh in the Lithuanian constituency of the world, collecting just 4.5 percent. votes.

Steponas Babrauskas, who was still competing last season, and Artūras Jomantas, who plays in Alytus’ Dzūkija, each got 1 percent in their constituencies. votes in the electoral districts of Vilnius.

Another LKL basketball player, Simas Galdikas, received more votes (10.2%) in the elections, but Klaipėda center forward Neptūnas remained fifth in the Baltic constituency of Klaipėda.

Among former athletes, former rower Jonas Pinskus (Labor Party of Social Democrats) has the best hope of joining the Seimas, with 25.1 percent in the first round in the Molėtai-Širvintos district. and continue the fight in the second round with the conservative Valentinas Stundis (19.6 percent), who also surpassed one of the peasants and green leaders Agnė Širinskienė, who started in this district but remained in fourth place.

His partner, former Bushido fighter Kęstutis Smirnovas, will still fight in the Vilkaviškis district second round, but after gaining 23.9 percent. In the first round, an extraordinary task awaits her: to overthrow the former prime minister and former president of the Lithuanian Women’s Basketball League, Algirdas Butkevičius (31.8%). It is true that during the last Seimas elections, K. Smirnovas defeated A. Butkevičius in the second round.

Results of all sports representatives in the Seimas elections:

Lithuanian district of the world

Tom patches (basketball coach and club owner; match “Lithuania – All”) – 7 p. (4.5%).

Gintautas Babravičius (former Vice President of the Lithuanian Football Federation; Freedom and Justice) – 8 p. (1.5%).

Karšuva County:

Karolis Bauža (Winner of the European Judo Championship; Freedom and Justice) – 6th place (7%).

Petrašiūnai-Girčiupis District

Saulius Skambinas (sports dances, Freedom Party) – 6th place (6%).

Deltuvos-north

Sergei Jovaiša (Former basketball player and coach; Homeland Union) – 2nd place (22.2%).

Molėtai-Širvintos

Jonas pinskus (former rower; Social Democratic Labor Party) – 1st place (25.1%).

Western sla

Ritas Vaiginas (Former Sports Officer; Social Democratic Labor Party) – 3rd place (14.4%).

Center-Žaliakalnis

Valdemaras Chomičius (former basketball player, now coach; “Lithuania – of all”) – 6th place (5.4 percent).

Fabijoniškių

Steponas Babrauskas (basketball player, “Lithuania – of all”) – 14th place (1 percent).

Ferrets

Artūras Jomantas (basketball player, “Lithuania – of all”) – 12th place (1 percent).

Paneriai-Grigiškės

Vydas gedvilas (former basketball coach; Green Party) – eighth place (3.1 percent).

Old town-Žvėrynas

Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen (ex chess player; liberal movement) – 2nd place (28.7%).

Fresh from the new town

Virgilio Alekna (former athlete; Liberal Movement) – 3rd place (9.9 percent).

Jotvingian

Paulius Malžinskas (former soccer referee, now soccer official; Liberal Movement) – 5th place (4.6 percent).

Beach

Dainius kepenis (sports official; Greens and Peasants Party) – 4th place (10.5%).

Baltic

Simas Galdikas (basketball player; Labor Party) – fifth place (10.2 percent).

Nevėžis

Simona Krupeckaitė (cyclist; Social Democratic Party) – 4th place (10.2%).

Western sla

Algirdas Raslanas (rowing judge; Social Democratic Party) – 5th place (11.7%).

Vilkaviškis

Kęstutis Smirnovas (ex-Bushido fighter, founder of grappling; Peasants and Greens Union) – 2nd place (23.9%).

In the multi-member constituency, there were also more sports representatives on the political party lists.

Olympic winner, former one of the most titled athletes in the modern pentathlon Edwin krungolc 82º remained in the list of the Union of the Fatherland.

Former basketball inspector of members of the Freedom Party Vytautas Kukarskas and a former basketball player Linas Kvedaravičius it remained in the top ten among its own.

The parties of several other sports representatives did not enter the Seimas.

Vice Minister of Sports of the MES Kornelija Tiesnesytė (Social Democratic Labor Party), Olympic swimming winner Arvydas Juozaitis (Union of Intergenerational Solidarity – a meeting for Lithuania), basketball specialist Rūtenis Paulauskas (“Lithuania for everyone”), Audra Ginelevičienė (Green Party) also claimed only in the multi-member constituency, but their parties remained outside the Seimas gate.