The one who will start his term in mid-November The Seimas, which consists of 141 representatives of the nation, 39 women will work. In the new parliament, they will make up 27 percent. all members of the Seimas.
At most - 18 parliamentarians will be the Social Democrats of the Seimas, 9 - conservatives, 4 - "Nemunas Dawn" party, 3 - Democratic Union "Vardan Lietuvos". 2 representatives of the Liberal Movement and 2 representatives of the Lithuanian Peasants and Greens Union (LVŽS), 1 representative of the Lithuanian Polish Election Campaign-Union of Christian Families (LLRA-KŠS) will work in the Seimas.
Out of 39 women who won seats in the Seimas, 18 will take up parliamentary work for the first time. These are the current Chancellor of the Government Giedrė Balčytytė, advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs Daiva Ulbinaitė, Olympic and world pentathlon champion Laura Asadauskaitė-Zadneprovskienė and others. Some future parliamentarians have work experience in local government. They are Klaipėda City Vice Mayor Lina Šukytė-Korsakė, Šilutė District Deputy Mayor Daiva Žebelienė, Joniškis District Vice Mayor Vaida Aleknavičienė, Prienė District Vice Mayor Jūratė Zailskienė, Alytus City Municipality Vice Mayor Jurgita Šukevičienė. Kaunas District Vice Mayor Raminta Popovienė, who has 8 years of experience in parliamentary work, is also returning to the Seimas.
The current Speaker of the Seimas Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, head of the outgoing Government, will work in the new Seimas Ingrida Simonyte.
B. Vēsaita may be assigned an honorable position
After the new Seimas convenes for its first session, the honor of chairing it may go to social democrat Biruta Vėsaita.
As stipulated in the Statute of the Seimas, the first session of the Parliament after the elections is opened by the oldest member of the Seimas elected by age. B. Vėsaitė, who was elected to the Seimas on the list of the Social Democratic Party, was born on August 1951, 19.
B. Vėsaitė, who has 16 years of experience in parliamentary work, returns after a break. B. Vėsaitė worked as a member of the Seimas from 2000 to 2016.
We will see more experienced politicians in the new Seimas. The mandate for the regular term was won by Rima Baškienė, who has 20 years of parliamentary work experience, and Rita Tamašunienė, who has been a member of the Seimas since 2012.
41 female parliamentarians will finish their term
By the way, the number of women in the outgoing and new Seimas is almost the same.
Four years ago, 38 women won mandates to the Seimas, but 41 MPs will finish their term.
In 2021, after the death of the signatory of the Act of Independence of Lithuania, member of the Seimas Kęstučius Glaveckis, the liberal Edita Rudelienė came to the Seimas.
in 2023 Conservative Rasa Petrauskienė took over the mandate of MP Stasios Šedbars, who became a judge of the Constitutional Court (KT).
In the middle of July of this year, another new parliamentarian, Ekaterina Rojaka, was solemnly sworn in at the Seimas and acquired all the rights of the People's Representative, replacing Aurelijus Verygas, who was elected to the European Parliament (EP). She became a member of the "Vardan Lietuvos" Democratic faction.
As ELTA reminds, according to the data of the Central Election Commission (CEC), during the elections to the Seimas held in October, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party won the most mandates - it will have 52 seats in the parliament.
The current governing conservatives are in second place with 28 mandates, while Nemunas Aušra, which is in third place, will get 20 seats in the parliament.
In the next Seimas, there will also be the Democratic Union "Vardan Lietuvos" with 14 seats, the Liberal Movement with 12 seats and the Lithuanian Peasants' Green Union (LVŽS) with 8 seats in the parliament.
Three representatives of the Lithuanian Polish election campaign-Union of Christian Families (LLRA-KŠS) also entered the parliament.
Vytautas Sinica, the representative of the National Unification, was also in the Seimas for the first time. The chairman of "Freedom and justice" Artūras Zuokas, self-nominated Viktoras Fiodorovs and Vitalijs Šeršniovas received one mandate each.
2024-2028 term for elected representatives of the Nation on November 8. it is planned to hand over Seimas member's certificates in the historic March 11 Act Hall. This document gives the right to participate in the first session of the new Seimas, which should take place in mid-November at the invitation of the President of the Republic Gitanas Nausėda.
Jadvyga Bieliavska (ELTA)
