Loreta Graužinienė | |
Birth Name: | Loreta Šniokaitė |
Birth Date: | 10 January 1963 |
Birth Place: | Rokiškis, Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic |
Office: | Speaker of the Seimas |
President: | Dalia Grybauskaitė |
Term Start: | 3 October 2013 |
Term End: | 14 November 2016 |
Predecessor1: | Vydas Gedvilas |
Successor1: | Viktoras Pranckietis |
Party: | Labour |
Spouse: | Julius Graužinis |
Children: | 2 |
Loreta Graužinienė (born 10 January 1963) is a Lithuanian politician, former Speaker of the Seimas[1] and former leader of the Lithuanian Labour party.
Graužinienė was born in Rokiškis in northeastern Lithuania. She studied at Rokiškio Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas gymnasium. She is married and has two children. Graužinienė has been the member of the Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas since 2004. She is the former leader of the Lithuanian Labour Party[2] and was the speaker of the Seimas between October 2013 and November 2016.[3] She unsuccessfully ran in the 2009 Lithuanian presidential election.
In the Seimas, she has served the Audit Committee, European Affairs Committee, the Labour and Social Affairs Committee and the Budget and Finance Committee.