Jonas Jarutis
Jonas Jarutis Seimas | |||
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| Deputy Speaker of the Seimas | |||
| Assumed office 3 December 2020 | |||
| Member of the Seimas | |||
| Assumed office 14 November 2016 | |||
| Constituency | Multi-member | ||
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| Born | 25 May 1963 Viekšniai, Akmenė District Municipality | ||
| Political party | Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union | ||
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Jonas Jarutis (born 25 May 1963) is a Lithuania politician, who from 2020 serves as Speaker (politics) of Seimas of Republic of Lithuania.
Biography
Jarutis was born in in village of Viekšniai, Mažeikiai District Municipality, Northern Lithuania.
Jarutis graduated Viekšniai secondary school in 1981 and Vilnius University Šiauliai Academy Pedagogical Institute in 1985. In 1990 he graduated from Lithuanian Sports University State Institute of Physical Education (now Lithuanian Sports University).
Jarutis was one of the local activists of National Renaissance – Independence movement of late 1980’s (Sąjūdis in Lithuanian). He was among proponents and participants of the return of burials of Lithuanian victims of Soviet terror from Siberia.
Having worked as a teacher from 1985 until 1990, he took first post of local self-government, serving as administrator of rural district (viršaitis in Lithuanian) of Skapiškis in 1990-1995.
Political life
After rural districts were abolished in the course of 1993-1994 municipal reform in Lithuania, Jonas Jarutis started own business, which he closed in 2007 after being elected a Deputy Mayor, and later the same year – Mayor of Kupiškis District Municipality (untill 2015).[1]
He joined then Lithuanian Peasants Party Party in 1995 and took place in subsequent municipal elections of 1997, 2000[2], 2002[3], 2007[4], 2011[5] and 2015[6]. He was elected councillor of Kupiškis District Municipality from 2000 onwards.
In 2016 General elections he was elected a member of Seimas of Republic of Lithuania, where he became deputy chair of Lithuanian Greens and Peasant’s Union’s fraction.
After re-election in 2020 General elections, Jarutis, as the representative of largest opposition party, became Deputy Speaker of the Seimas. [7]
Private life
Divorced, with two children. Younger son Justinas Jarutis is a famous Lithuanian pop singer. Jonas Jarutis is fluent in German and Russian.
References
- ↑ "Kupiškio rajono savivaldybės taryba", Vikipedija (in lietuvių), 2020-03-17, retrieved 2021-02-26
- ↑ "Supreme Electoral Commission, 2000 Municipal Elections (in Lithuanian), Pirmumo balsai apygardoje (". www.vrk.lt. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Anketa". www.vrk.lt. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
- ↑ "Kandidatai - Lietuvos Respublikos Vyriausioji rinkimų komisija (in Lithuanian)". www.vrk.lt. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Balsavimo rezultatai. 2011 m. Lietuvos Respublikos savivaldybių tarybų rinkimai (in Lithuanian)". www.vrk.lt. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Candidates - The Central Electoral Commission of the Republic of Lithuania". www.vrk.lt. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
- ↑ "Jonas Jarutis, Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania". www.lrs.lt. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
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