Gabrielius Landsbergis

Gabrielius Landsbergis (born 7 January 1982) is a Lithuanian politician, a Member of the Seimas for Centras - Žaliakalnis constituency. Also he is a former member of the European Parliament. He was a member of Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats). Elected as the Chairman of the Homeland Union in 2015.

Career

In 2003, Landsbergis graduated from Faculty of History, Vilnius University and gained a bachelor's degree; in 2005, he graduated from Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science, gaining a master's degree in International Relations and Diplomacy. He worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania and the Chancellery of the President of Lithuania. In 2007 he joined the staff of the Lithuanian embassy in Belgium. Landsbergis returned to Lithuania in 2011 and worked in the Chancellery of the Government of Lithuania.

Member of the European Parliament, 2014–present

Landsbergis has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2014 elections. He was elected to the European Parliament as the member of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats.

Landsbergis has since been serving on the Committee on International Trade and on the Subcommittee on Security and Defence. In addition to his committee assignments, he is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Children’s Rights.

On 25 April 2015, Landsbergis was elected as the Chairman of the Homeland Union, defeating former speaker of the Seimas Irena Degutienė in the contest.

When Landsbergis requested to meet with Russian MPs and officials in Moscow amid the Ukraine crisis, this was denied in early 2015.

Personal life

Landsbergis was born in the family of Vytautas V. Landsbergis, a Lithuanian writer, and Ramunė Bartininkaitė. Gabrielius is the grandson of Vytautas Landsbergis, a prominent Lithuanian politician.

He is married to Austėja Landsbergienė. The couple has four children.

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Homeland Union

The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (Lithuanian: Tėvynės sąjunga – Lietuvos krikščionys demokratai, TS-LKD) is a centre-right political party in Lithuania. It has 18,000 members and 33 of 141 seats in the Seimas.

It is the main centre-right party, with a particularly liberal conservative and Christian democratic, but also nationalist oriented and economically liberal ideology. Its current leader is Gabrielius Landsbergis who replaced Andrius Kubilius in 2014. It is a member of the European People's Party (EPP) and the International Democrat Union (IDU).

History

It was founded in May 1993 by the right wing of the Reform Movement of Lithuania, led by Vytautas Landsbergis, who had led Lithuania to independence. In the 1996 national elections, it secured 31.3% of the vote and returned 70 deputies to the Seimas, but, in 2000, it was reduced to 8.6% and 9 deputies.

After Lithuania's admission to the European Union in 2004, it won two seats in the election to the European Parliament, one of whom was Vytautas Landsbergis, who sat in the EPP-ED Group. At the 2004 election to the Seimas, the party won 14.6% of the popular vote and 25 out of 141 seats.

Until the merger with Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees and Right Union of Lithuania), it was known just as Homeland Union (Lithuanian Conservatives). The last change of the name was a result of the merger with the Lithuanian Nationalist Union on 11 March 2008, and the Lithuanian Christian Democrats on 17 May 2008, after which the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats became Lithuania's largest party with more than 18,000 members. Prior to 2008 it was known as the Homeland Union (Conservatives, Political Prisoners and the Exiled, Christian Democrats) or TS. At the 2008 legislative election, Homeland Union won 19.69% of the national vote and 45 seats in the Seimas: 20 more than in 2004. Becoming the largest party in the Seimas, it formed a coalition government with the Liberal Movement, Liberal and Centre Union, and National Resurrection Party. Together, they held a majority of 80 out of 141 seats in the Seimas, and the Homeland Union's leader, Andrius Kubilius, became Prime Minister for a second time.

In June 2011, the Lithuanian Nationalist Union declared its withdrawal from the party.

Support for the party plummeted in the 2012 election, and it was excluded from the government.

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