Alytus County is one of ten counties in Lithuania. It is the southernmost county,and its capital is the city of Alytus. Its territory lies within the ethnographic region of Dzūkija. On 1 July 2010,the county administration was abolished,and since that date,Alytus County remains as the territorial and statistical unit.
The Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania,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.
The Homeland Union –Lithuanian Christian Democrats,also known colloquially simply as the Conservatives,is a centre-right political party in Lithuania. It has 18,000 members and 50 of 141 seats in the Seimas. 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).
Lithuania is divided into three layers of administrative divisions. The first-level division consists of 10 counties. These are sub-divided into 60 municipalities,which in turn are further sub-divided into over 500 smaller groups,known as elderships.
Laima Liucija Andrikienė is a Lithuanian politician serving as member of the European Court of Auditors since November 2022.
Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 10 October 2004,with a second round on 24 October 2004 in the constituencies where no candidate won a majority in the first round of voting. All 141 seats in the Seimas were up for election;71 in single-seat constituencies elected by majority vote and the remaining 70 in a nationwide constituency based on proportional representation.
Povilas Aksomaitis was a Lithuanian engineer,politician,and signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
Vytautas Kolesnikovas was a painter,graphic artist,politician,and signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
Rasa Juknevičienė is a Lithuanian politician and paediatrician,who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. She served as Minister of Defense of Lithuania since 2008 to 2012. She is a member of center right Homeland Union.
Algirdas Butkevičius is a Lithuanian politician and was Prime Minister of Lithuania,serving between 2012 and 2016. He also served as the Minister of Finance from 2004 to 2005 and the Minister of Transport and Communications from 2006 to 2008. He led the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania from 2009 to 2017.
Gintaras Steponavičius is a Lithuanian former Liberal politician,retiring from politics in 2020. He was member of the Seimas and Senior Deputy Chair of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement Party. Steponavičius was the Minister of Education and Science in Kubilius Cabinet.
Rasa Budbergytė is a Lithuanian politician and a member of the Seimas. She previously served as state's Auditor General,member at European Court of Auditors and Minister of Finance.
Aušra Seibutytė-Maldeikienė is a Lithuanian political economist,politician,lecturer,teacher,publicist and book author.
Arvydas Anušauskas is a Lithuanian politician and historian. He focuses on the history of the interwar Lithuanian secret services,KGB actions in Lithuania,and Soviet repressions in Lithuania. As a member of the Homeland Union –Lithuanian Christian Democrats,he was elected to the Seimas (parliament) in 2008 and reelected in 2012,2016 and 2020.
Jurgis Razma is a physicist,First Deputy Speaker of the Seimas,Member of the Seimas since 1996.
Andrius Mazuronis is an engineer,a Deputy Speaker of the Seimas and Member of the Seimas since 2008.
Vytautas Mitalas is a Deputy Speaker of the Seimas and Member of the Seimas since November 2020. He is also former Vice Mayor of Vilnius.
Paulius Saudargas is a physicist,Deputy Speaker of the Seimas,Member of the Seimas for the Justiniškės constituency since 2008 and holds a PhD in biophysics.
Kęstutis Navickas is a Lithuanian politician and environmentalist. Navickas served as the Minister of Environment in the Skvernelis Cabinet from 2016 until 2018.
Yury Alekseyevich Spiridonov,was a Russian politician who had served as a member of the State Duma of the IV convocation from 2003 to 2007.
