Member of the Seimas, signatory Kęstutis Glaveckas is buried in the Antakalnis cemetery

The urn was removed from the funeral home on Sunday at 2 p.m., and the Lithuanian tricolor was next to it.

K. Glaveckas was accompanied on the last trip by former political colleagues, opponents, colleagues, relatives.

The deceased was buried in the Antakalnis Cemetery. After the sensitive words of the companions, the Lithuanian hymn was sung.

Politician K. Glaveckas died on Friday in a Vilnius hospital. He would have turned 72 on April 30.

Čmilytė – Nielsen: It was good to have a partner like that

Seimas president Viktorija Čmilytė – Nielsen also came to say goodbye to the politician on Sunday. He said it was good to have a partner like that.

“His contribution to both the restoration and the consolidation of the state is enormous. He was the man, the politician, who had a very consistent and strong worldview. But he was always happy to argue, he was a witty interlocutor, always interesting. Advice generously shared with the youngest. It was good to have such a colleague, “the Seimas president told reporters about her outgoing colleague.

V. Čmilytė-Nielsen said that he had last contacted K. Glaveck a month ago. By then, the politician was already in the hospital.

“I wished him the best,” the politician recalled.

The Seimas Spokesperson said she would better remember K. Glaveck’s forgiveness.

Representatives of the Liberal Movement also arrived on Sunday to honor the memory of their colleagues. K. Glaveck was a member of this party for a long time, having resigned from it last year. Former country chief Valdas Adamkus also said goodbye.

On Saturday, in memory of K. Glaveckas, President Gitanas Nausėda, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, Professor Vytautas Landsbergis, various members of the Seimas and politicians also arrived.

The companions said the last words of farewell in the cemetery.

Seimas spokesperson V. Čmilytė – Nielsen read a farewell word at the Antakalnis cemetery.

“I remember well my first day at Seimas. It was K. Glavecko who did a kind of tutoring. He helped me understand, to take the first steps,” he said.

The Seimas spokesman stated that the politician communicated with charm and style.

“He did not like to be sad, he was an absolute optimist,” said the president of Seimas.

“Lithuania was very important to him, they gave him strength and health. And only with time we will understand how important K. Glaveckas is to us,” said V. Čmilytė – Nielsen.

“There were many difficult moments”

The representative of the Liberal Movement Eugenijus Gentvilas spoke about the colleague in the words of the writer Richard Gavel. He said Glaveck was a “jazz politician.”

“We friends joke about Kęstutis: he is the man who invented the economy. He defended his economic model on a daily basis, he demanded a responsible approach to finances always and everywhere, ”said E. Gentvilas.

“It just came to our knowledge then. I remember the night of January 13, we smoked in the room, the language came out, who has how many children, I understand how many orphans we are going to leave. But still determination as necessary. For Kęstutis, the words” necessity “,” must “were a moral imperative. Kęstutis remained that way until the end,” said E. Gentvilas about his colleague.

“Today, the sky over Lithuania is wide. And from now on, Kęstuti, it is all yours. Rest in peace,” said E. Gentvilas.

K. Glaveck’s friend Rimas regretted saying goodbye to his friend’s birthday.

“I knew I didn’t like praise, praise, so I tried to speak wittily, with the humor that you love, I appreciate. I couldn’t think that one day this toast on April 30 would become a farewell language, ”lamented a friend of K. Glaveckas.

“Lithuania has finally begun to understand what kind of people are coming out of the closet. Let’s look around us, how many are left. Did we say thank you? Will we still be able to say it?”

The president of the Seimas presented the Lithuanian flag to the grandson of K. Glaveckas. He said it was a symbol of the country that Glaveck had faithfully served.

Sensitive words from the wife.

K. Glaveckis’s wife, Rūta Rutkelytė, also spoke sensitive words.

“Let me thank everyone who supported us in this difficult hour, who expressed their condolences, who accompanied Kęstutis on the last trip, who helped through difficult times, who spoke a good word to him and our loved ones.

During those 2 months, we rolled our eyes, so I just want to say a few words, which Kęstutis used to repeat when he was sad or bad. He told me “I love mine, I’m with you.” I want to repeat those words to you: “I love mine, I am with you,” said R. Rutkelytė, the wife of K. Glaveckas, at the grave.

He was active in politics

K. Glaveckas was born in 1949. April 30 He would have turned 72 on Friday.

In 1967-1972, K. Glaveckas studied at the Faculty of Industrial Economics of Vilnius University (VU). Later, until 2000, he taught at the VU Faculty of Economics.

In 1973-1976, he also studied at the VU graduate program, defended the title of candidate in economics. In 1987, a politician defended his habilitation thesis at Tallinn University, for which he obtained a doctor’s degree in economics.

He graduated from the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1988 and in 1989 received the title of professor. 1989-1990 K. Glaveck improved at New York University, 1992-1993. Budapest University of Economics.

He was one of the founders of the Free Market Institute of Lithuania, in 1992-1998. He was president of the board of directors of this institute. 1993-1996 Chairman of the Board of the National Stock Exchange.

Glaveck has been in politics since 1986. 1989-1990 he was the head of the Economic and Social Affairs Division of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania and the secretary of the Central Committee.

1990-1992 he was a deputy of the Supreme Council, the Seimas de Restauración. Since 1996 Member of Parliament.

1998-2000 Vice President of the Union of Lithuanian Centers (LCS), 2000 President of the Union. 2002 as a candidate of the LCS he participated unsuccessfully in the presidential elections of the Republic of Lithuania (he obtained 0.52% of the votes). 2003 Member of the Municipal Council of the City of Kaunas.

He is an active initiator and supporter of the unification of LCS with the Lithuanian Liberal Union and the Union of Modern Christian Democrats. 2003 May 31 elected first vice president of the Union of Liberals and the Center.

2005 Taken from the Union of Liberals and the Center. 2008 The Liberal Movement of the Republic of Lithuania joined the political party.

K. Glaveckas has been awarded the Commander’s Cross of the Order of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas, the Lithuanian Independence Medal.

He has published more than 300 research articles on market economy issues in Lithuania and abroad; Author of the books “Problems of productive intensification”, “Market economy” and “State regulation”.