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Members of the Seimas




Angelė Jakavonytė
Seimas 2020-2024
Member of the Seimas from 11/15/2022
Nominated by: Tėvynės sąjunga – Lietuvos krikščionys demokratai
Elected: By list
Contacts Contacts
Room: I-411
Tel: +370 5 209 6649
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Biography Biography

Committees of the Seimas

11/18/2022Committee for the Future, Member
03/22/2023Committee on Culture, Member
11/18/2022 - 03/21/2023Committee on Social Affairs and Labour, Member

Commissions of the Seimas

11/17/2022Commission for the Cause of Freedom and the National Historical Memory, Member
11/17/2022Commission of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Lithuanian World Community, Member
03/19/2024Freedom Prize Commission, Chair
11/17/2022 - 03/18/2024Freedom Prize Commission, Member

Political groups of the Seimas

11/15/2022Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrat Political Group, Member

Parliamentary groups

02/08/2023 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with Australia and Other Countries of Oceania, Member
04/06/2023 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with Canada, Member
01/12/2023 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with Georgia, Member
01/12/2023 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the French Republic, Member
01/12/2023 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Holy See, Member
04/06/2023 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Nordic Countries (Kingdom of Denmark, Iceland, Kingdom of Norway, Republic of Finland, Kingdom of Sweden), Member
12/19/2022 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Republic of Armenia, Member
04/06/2023 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Republic of Croatia, Member
05/11/2023 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Republic of Kazakhstan, Member
12/19/2022 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland, Member
01/12/2023 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Swiss Confederation, Member
04/06/2023 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the United Arab Emirates, Member
12/19/2022 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the United States of America, Member
01/12/2023 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Western Balkan Countries (Republic of Albania, Republic of North Macedonia, Montenegro, Republic of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Kosovo), Member
01/12/2023 Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with Ukraine, Member
02/23/2023 Parliamentary Group for Relations with the Republic of China (Taiwan), Member
12/07/2023 Provisional Group for Cooperation with the Ateitis Federation (Federation for the Future), Member
02/08/2023 Provisional Group for Cooperation with the Lithuanian Youth Council, Member
12/22/2022 Provisional Group for Patriotic Citizenship Education of Young People, Member
02/08/2023 Provisional Group for Supporting the Lithuanian Armed Forces and the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union, Member
02/08/2023 Provisional Group of Dzūkija Friends, Member
04/06/2023 Provisional Group of Friends of the Capital City, Member
02/08/2023 Provisional Prayer Group, Member
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Date of birth

20 November 1959

Place of birth                         

Kaščiūnai Village, Varėna District, Lithuania

Education

 

2003

graduation from the Lithuanian University of Law (currently Mykolas Romeris University), Master's in Law

1983

graduation from the Faculty of Nature, Vincas Kapsukas State University in Vilnius (currently Vilnius University), Master’s in Geography

Work experience

 

 

2011–2022

Chief Specialist, Adviser, Ministry of Agriculture

1996–2011    Deputy Warden, Žvėrynas Ward; positions at the Legal Department and the Procurement Division, Vilnius City Municipality Administration

1984–1996

Junior Research Fellow, Research Fellow, Division of Geography, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences

Political career

 

 

2019–2022

Member, Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats

Member, Vilnius City Municipal Council

Miscellaneous

 

 

Pursuits: preservation and promotion of historical memory; consolidation of Lithuania’s statehood and civil society.

Public activities: 

Chair, Coordination Council, 22 NGOs contributing to Lithuania’s defence capabilities (2017–2020)

Founder and Director, Partisan Juozas Jakavonis-Tigras Charity and Sponsorship Foundation (2021–2022)

Deputy Chair, Charity and Sponsorship Foundation Vytis su memorialu laisvės kovotojams (Vytis with the Memorial for Freedom Fighters) (2020–2022)

Member, Board of the Movement of the Struggle for Freedom of Lithuania (2018–2023)

Member, Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees

Member, Union of the Struggle for Freedom of Lithuania

Member, Association of Lithuanian Political Prisoners and Deportees

Co-initiator and Co-organiser of the erection of the Lithuanian Partisan Memorial in Kryžkalnis

Organiser of the renovation of the historical headquarters of Juozas Vitkus codenamed Kazimieraitis and Adolfas Ramanauskas codenamed Vanagas, partisan commanders in southern Lithuania, at the birthplace of her father Juozas Jakavonis codenamed Tigras (2022)

Active contributor to the establishment of the Museum of Deportation and Genocide in Merkinė

Awards

 

 

Badge Medal for Merits to Vilnius and the Nation

Tadeusz Kościuszko Medal for Contribution to the Promotion of the History and Cultural Heritage of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė Medal Tarnaukite Lietuvai (Serve the Cause of Lithuania) for fostering the traditions of parliamentarianism and promoting citizenship and democracy

Publications

 

 

10 research and 40 journalistic articles on freedom struggles, patriotism and citizenship in Lithuanian and foreign press

Hobbies

 

 

Lithuanian history, culture, organisation and hosting of patriotic events, travel, active outdoor recreation

Languages

 

 

Russian, English (A2), French (basic)

Family

 

 

Divorced with daughter Miglė

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