Artūras Zuokas is a Lithuanian journalist,businessman and politician who served as the mayor of the capital of Lithuania,Vilnius,from 2000 to 2007 and again from 2011 to 2015,and as member of Lithuania's unicameral parliament,Seimas,from 2008 to 2009. He was the leader of the Liberal and Centre Union,then YES - Homeland Revival and Perspective and the Lithuanian Freedom Union,and has been the chairman of Freedom and Justice since 3 February 2024.
Irena Degutienė is a Lithuanian politician and member of the conservative Homeland Union. She is currently the Deputy Speaker of Seimas,and was twice the acting Prime Minister of Lithuania,first from 4 May 1999 to 18 May 1999 and then from 27 October 1999 to 3 November 1999. She has also been the Speaker of Seimas from 15 September 2009 to 14 September 2012,as well as Minister for Social Security and Labour from 1996 to 2000. In 1978,she graduated from Vilnius University with a degree in medicine. For almost twenty years,she worked in Vilnius Red Cross Hospital before becoming a secretary in the Ministry of Health in 1994. She was initially elected to Seimas in 1996. Degutienėis the first woman to be Speaker of Seimas in Lithuania's history.
Liberals' Movement is a conservative-liberal political party in Lithuania.
Dainius Kreivys is a Lithuanian businessman and politician who served as the Minister of Economy of Lithuania from 2008 to 2011 and is a member of Seimas since 2012. He is a member of the conservative political party Homeland Union –Lithuanian Christian Democrats.
Rokas Žilinskas was a Lithuanian journalist and politician. He was elected to the Seimas in 2008 and was a member of the Lithuanian Parliament until his death. He was the first openly gay member of the parliament.
Remigijus Šimašius is a Lithuanian lawyer and politician,member of Seimas (2012–2015),Minister of Justice (2008–2012),Mayor of Vilnius from 2015 to 2023.
Mantas Adomėnas is a Lithuanian classicist and politician. He was first elected to the Seimas in 2008 and served until 2020. He earned a Ph.D. degree in classics from the University of Cambridge. His best known work is probably the article The Fluctuating Fortunes of Heraclitus in Plato.
Gabrielius Landsbergis is a Lithuanian politician serving as the current Lithuanian minister of Foreign Affairs since 2020 in the ŠimonytėCabinet. A member of the Seimas for the Žaliakalnis constituency,incumbent President of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe and a former member of the European Parliament with the Group of the European People's Party. He has been the Chairman of the Homeland Union since 2015.
Remigijus Žemaitaitis is a Lithuanian right-wing politician and member of the Seimas,known for his antisemitic statements. He is the founder and leader of the political party Dawn of Nemunas.
Saulius Skvernelis is a Lithuanian politician who served as prime minister of Lithuania between 2016 and 2020. He had previously served as police commissioner,and was Minister of the Interior from 2014 to 2016. Though he was an independent politician,he was backed by the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union and was a member of its parliamentary group until 2022,as a result of which he became the first head of government in European history primarily backed by a green party.
The Political Party "Lithuanian List" is an anti-establishment,anti-corruption political party in Lithuania. It was represented in the Lithuanian unicameral legislature,Seimas,from 2016 to 2019.
AušrinėArmonaitė is a Lithuanian politician who served as the chairperson of the Freedom Party from 2019 to 2024. Previously a member of the Liberal Movement and a vice chairperson from 2017 until 2018,Armonaitėwas first elected to the Seimas in the 2016 parliamentary election. In 2018,she resigned from the Liberal Movement and later joined the social liberal and progressive Freedom Party. She led the party into the 2020 parliamentary election,where the party won 11 seats and became represented in the Seimas for the first time.
Stasys Jakeliūnas is a Lithuanian politician. He was formerly a Member of the European Parliament (EP) for the populist Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union. Jakeliūnas has previously spent one incomplete term as MP at the Lithuanian Seimas,having been elected in 2016.
Gintautas Paluckas is a Lithuanian politician. Paluckas was Deputy Mayor of Vilnius from 2015 to 2019,and the leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) from 2017 to 2021. Paluckas led his party in the 2020 parliamentary election and won a seat in the Seimas. In 2024,as the Deputy Leader of the party,Paluckas participated in the Lithuanian parliamentary election,which was won by the LSDP. As a result,he was nominated as a candidate for the position of Prime Minister of Lithuania.
Kęstutis Navickas is a Lithuanian politician and environmentalist. Navickas served as the Minister of Environment in the Skvernelis Cabinet from 2016 until 2018.
Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 13 and 27 October 2024 to elect the 141 members of the Seimas. Parliament members were elected in 71 single-member constituencies using the two-round system,and the remaining 70 in a single nationwide constituency using proportional representation. The first round was held on 13 October and the second round on 27 October.
Ignas Vėgėlė is a Lithuanian lawyer and right-wing politician who served as president of the Lithuanian Bar Association from 2014 to 2022,as well as president of the Lithuanian Lawyers' Association from 2013 to 2016. He was a member of the right-wing Christian conservative Lithuanian Christian Democrats from 1994 and served as the party's deputy chairman of the board from 2002 to 2004,and as interim chairman of the board from 2004 to 2006. Upon the party's merger with the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats,he became an independent politician.
The Union of the Fighters for Lithuania,previously known as the Union for the President of Lithuania was a minor political party in Lithuania of an eclectic far-right political orientation which was founded in 2011. It replaced the Lithuanian Liberty Union. It did not achieve any notable electoral results and was liquidated by the Supreme Election Commission in 2022 for failing to provide a list of members.
Petras Gražulis is a Lithuanian politician,former Member of the Seimas and current member of the European Parliament. Gražulis is also the incumbent chairman of the right-wing People and Justice Union party. He is known for his political scandals and hardline opposition to LGBT rights.
Arūnas Valinskas is a Lithuanian politician of the Homeland Union. Since 2020,he has been a member of the Seimas. He was an assistant to Mykolas Majauskas from 2018 to 2020,and was elected to the Vilnius City Council in 2019. He is the son of television producer Arūnas Valinskas.
