Members of the Seimas - Arvydas VIDŽIŪNAS 

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Arvydas VIDŽIŪNAS
 
Arvydas VIDŽIŪNAS

 

Member of the Seimas from 2012-11-16 till 2016-11-14.
  
Position
Committees of the SeimasCommissions of the SeimasPolitical Groups of the SeimasParliamentary Groups
History
Was elected to the Seimas 1996 – 2000.
Was elected to the Seimas 2000 – 2004.
Was elected to the Seimas 2008 – 2012.
Biography

Date of birth

8 March 1962

Place of birth

Valenčiūnai Village, Šakiai District, Lithuania

 

 

Education

 

1991

Doctor of Humanities (Philology), Vilnius University

1987–1990

Postgraduate studies, Vilnius State University (currently Vilnius University)

1980–1985

Faculty of Philology, Vilnius State University, Teacher of the Lithuanian Language and Literature

1977–1980

Zigmas Angarietis Secondary School (currently Žiburys Gymnasium) in Šakiai

 

 

Work experience

 

1985–1996

Assistant, Senior Assistant, Associate Professor, Department of the Lithuanian Language, Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University

 

 

Political career

 

 

Member of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats

Since 2012

Member, Committee on Rural Affairs

 

Member, Commission for Youth and Sport Affairs

 

Member, Seimas Delegation to the Assembly of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland

 

Member, Seimas Delegation to the Assembly of Members of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, the Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland, and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

2008–2012

Member, Committee on Audit

 

Member, Committee on Social Affairs and Labour

 

Member, Commission for Youth and Sport Affairs

 

Member, Seimas Delegation to the Assembly of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland

2000–2004

Member, Committee on Rural Affairs

 

Member, Committee on Legal Affairs

 

Member, Seimas Delegation to the Assembly of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland

1996–2000

Deputy Speaker, First Deputy Speaker of the Seimas

 

Member, Committee on Rural Affairs

 

Chair, Seimas Delegation to the Assembly of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Sejm of the Republic of Poland

Since 1995

Member, Homeland Union (Lithuanian Conservatives), currently Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats

 

Deputy Chairman, Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats

 

Member, Council of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats

 

Miscellaneous

Other activities: founder of non-governmental organisations The Conservative Future and Sūduva Cultural Foundation; Board Member, Zanavykai Society in Vilnius

Publications: over 40 academic and popular science articles on linguistics, cultural history, a book Jono Jablonskio akcentologija (1997), articles on public and political matters

Hobbies: cultural history of the homeland, reading, gastronomy, sports

 

Foreign languages: German, Russian

 

Family

Married with a daughter

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