Viktoras Pranckietis

Viktoras Pranckietis (born 26 July 1958) is a Lithuanian agronomist and politician. He was the speaker of the Seimas.

Viktoras Pranckietis
Pranckietis in 2016
Speaker of the Seimas
In office
14 November 2016 – 12 November 2020
PresidentDalia Grybauskaitė
Gitanas Nausėda
Preceded byLoreta Graužinienė
Succeeded byViktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen
Member of Seimas
Assumed office
14 November 2016
Preceded byPosition established
ConstituencyRaudondvaris
Personal details
Born (1958-07-26) 26 July 1958
Ruteliai, Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic
Political partyLiberal Movement (2020–present)
Other political
affiliations		Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (until 2019)
ProfessionAgronomist, politician

Early life and education

Pranckietis was born in Ruteliai village, near Tytuvėnai, in Kelmė District Municipality. He graduated from high school in Tytuvėnai in 1973 and continued studying there at an agricultural technical school, afterwards briefly working at a local farm as an agronomist.[1] Between 1977 and 1982, Pranckietis studied at the Lithuanian Academy of Agriculture (now Aleksandras Stulginskis University), earning a degree in scientific agronomy. In 1998, he earned a doctoral degree in biomedicine.[2]

Pranckietis spent most of his career working at the Lithuanian Academy of Agriculture, starting as a research assistant, and later working as the dean of the faculty of agronomy. He has written numerous scientific papers, books and textbooks, specializing in gardening and acted as a consultant on the subject for numerous specialized TV shows in Lithuania.[1]

Political career

Pranckietis is a former member of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union. Since 2014, he has served as the deputy chairman of the party.[3] He first unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas, in 2012, but was elected to the council of Kaunas District Municipality in 2015.[1][4] In the parliamentary elections in October 2016, Pranckietis was elected to the parliament in the single-member constituency of Raudondvaris. With Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union being the largest party in the parliament, Pranckietis was elected as the Speaker of the Seimas in November 2016.[5][6] In 2018 and 2019, there were two attempts to have no confidence vote on Pranckietis' speakership, but none of them prevailed.[7]

Honours

Foreign honours

References
  1. "Viktoras Pranckietis: ryžtingas ir atlapaširdis agronomas, tapęs Seimo pirmininku" (in Lithuanian). 15 November 2016. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  2. "Viktoras Pranckietis" (in Lithuanian). Lietuvos Respublikos Seimo kanceliarija. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  3. Nekrošius, Arvydas (14 October 2014). "LVŽS plečia komandą: R. Karbauskio pavaduotoju tapo ir sveikuolis Dainius Kepenis" (in Lithuanian). krastietis.lt. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  4. Karaliūnas, Arūnas. "Naujasis Seimo pirmininkas – agronomas, išgarsinęs margalapes aktinidijas" (in Lithuanian). Lietuvos rytas. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  5. Gudavičius, Stasys (14 November 2016). "Seimo pirmininku išrinktas Viktoras Pranckietis" (in Lithuanian). Verslo žinios. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  6. Samoškaitė, Eglė (14 November 2016). "Seimo pirmininku tapo R. Karbauskio kandidatas V. Pranckietis" (in Lithuanian). Delfi.lt. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  7. "V. Pranckietį pašalinti bandoma ne pirmą kartą: Tam mėgino pasipriešinti keli valstiečiai".
  8. "Pranckietis S.E. Viktoras" (in Italian). President of the Republic. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  9. ELTA (1 July 2019). "V. Pranckiečiui bus įteiktas ordino "Už nuopelnus Lenkijos Respublikai" Didysis kryžius" (in Lithuanian). L24plius. Retrieved 25 April 2020.

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