Laima Andrikienė

Laima Andrikienė
Nationality Lithuanian
Education Doctorate in Economics
Alma mater University of Vilnius
Occupation Politician
Years active 1990-Present
Political party European People's Party

Laima Liucija Andrikienė (born 1 January 1958 in Druskininkai) is a Lithuanian politician, signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, former member of the Seimas and the European Parliament for the Homeland Union (Lithuanian Conservatives).

Biography

Andrikienė was born in Druskininkai on 1 January 1958. In 1980 Andrikienė graduated from Vilnius University with a degree in Economics and Math. She worked as an engineer, an later as a research fellow, at the Lithuanian Institute for Research of Agricultural Economy. She successfully concluded doctoral studies in 1994.[1]

Political career

In 1990 Andrikienė was elected to the Supreme Council of Lithuania and was a signatory to the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania. In the elections in 1992, she was elected as the member of the Sixth Seimas through the electoral list of Sąjūdis.[2] In 1996, representing Homeland Union, she was elected for another term of the Seimas in Pramonės (17) single-seat constituency in Kaunas.[1]

In December 1996 Andrikienė was appointed the Minister of the Industry and Trade for a short time. Later same month she was appointed a Minister of European Affairs.[1]

Andrikienė left the Homeland Union at the end of 1998 together with her husband and fellow member of the Seimas Vidmantas Žiemelis. In 1999 they founded a short-lived Popular Homeland Party.[1] In 2001 she joined the Lithuanian Union of the Right and in 2003 rejoined the Homeland Union.

In 2004 Andrikienė was elected to the European Parliament for Lithuania. She was elected from the electoral list of the Homeland Union and sat with the European People's Party. She was reelected in 2009.[3][4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Member of the Seimas 1996-2000". Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Member of the Seimas 1992-1996". Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "LAIMA LIUCIJA ANDRIKIENĖ". Central Election Commission. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "Laima Liucija ANDRIKIENĖ". European Parliament. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
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