Vytenis Andriukaitis

Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis (b. August 9, 1951 in Yakut, USSR) is a Lithuanian physician, politician, and signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.

Andriukaitis's family was deported to Siberia in June 1941. He, his mother, and his two older brothers were allowed to return in 1958; his father returned in 1959.

Education
1969 graduated from Kaunas Secondary School No. 24, certificate with honors.

1969-1975 Kaunas Institute of Medicine, specialty - medical doctor.

1979-1984 Faculty of History of Vilnius University, diploma Summa Cum Laude, specialty - historian, teacher of history and political sciences.

Medical career
1975-1976 surgeon at the Kaunas District Hospital.

1976-1984 surgeon at the Ignalina Central Hospital.

1979 general surgery specialisation course in Vilnius University.

1980 military surgery specialisation course in Riga District Military Hospital.

1980-1981 acting head of surgery unit of the Ignalina Central Hospital.

1982 abdominal surgery specialisation course in Vilnius University.

1983 trauma and orthopaedics surgery specialisation course in Vilnius University.

1984 second category surgeon.

1985-1993 cardio-surgeon at the Cardio Surgery Centre of the Vilnius Republican Clinical Hospital.

1987 cardio-vascular surgery specialisation course in Moscow Bakulev Cardio- Vascular Institute.

1989 first category cardio-vascular surgeon.

1998-2004 member of the International Association of Medical Doctors–Parliamentarians.

1989-1996 member of the Lithuanian Doctors Union.

1989- member of the Lithuanian Heart Association.

2006-2008 has given lectures, organized projects on the issues of health law at The State Environmental Health Center.

Political career
Since 1969 active participant in the anti-Soviet underground movement.

Since 1976 member of the underground Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP).

1975-1982 participant of the underground Antanas Strazdelis University of Humanitarian Thought and Self-education.

1976 detained and questioned by the KGB, arrested by the Soviet authorities and sentenced to a 3-year compulsory registration in Ignalina.

1988-1989 active supporter of the legalisation of the LSDP, member of the initiative group for the restoration of the activities of the LSDP, member of the Lithuanian Sąjūdis Movement, participated in drafting the programs of the LSDP and the Lithuanian Sąjūdis Movement.

1988-1989 member of the working group for the elaboration of the concept of economic independence of the Soviet Republic of Lithuania (social security, healthcare and state administration).

1989-1999 and 2001-present Deputy Chairman of the LSDP.

1999-2001 Chairman of the LSDP.

1990-1992 Deputy of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania (Parliament), member of the Commission on Health and Social Affairs, Chairman of its Health sub-commission, member of the group, which drafted documents of 11 March 1990 including the Act of the Restoration of the Independent Lithuanian State, Signatory of the Act, member of the working groups for the preparation of the Concepts of National Science and National Health.

1990-1992 one of the authors of 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania.

1990-2004 member delegation at the Baltic Assembly of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania.

1992-1996 Member of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania (Parliament), Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Heath and Social Affairs, Deputy Elder of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party parliamentary group, member of the working group for the preparation of the Concept of National Security.

1994-1996 Member of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania delegation at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, member of the Human Rights and Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

1996-2000 Member of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, member of the Board of the Seimas, member of the Assembly of Elders of the Seimas, member of the Committee on State Administration and Local Authorities, Elder of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party parliamentary group, member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Sejm of the Republic of Poland.

1997 and 2002 candidate to the President of the Republic of Lithuania. April-November 2000 member of the Municipal Council of the City of Vilnius.

2000-2004 Member of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, member of the Board of the Seimas, member of the Assembly of Elders of the Seimas. October 2000-August 2001 Seimas Opposition Leader, Elder of the parliamentary group of the Social Democratic Coalition of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania (Lithuanian Democratic Labour Party, LSDP, Russians Union of Lithuania). July 2001-July 2004 Deputy Chairman of the Seimas in charge of coordinating work of parliamentary committees, commissions and the EU integration program of the Office of the Seimas, including planning and managing of human and financial resources, Chairman of the Committee on European Affairs, member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Committee on Legal Affairs, the NATO Commission, the Commission on the Preparing of the Amendments of the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania.

23 May 2002 initiator of the Lithuanian Forum on the Future of Europe.

February 2002-July 2003 Member of the Convention on the Future of Europe.

28 July 2004 of my own free will resigned from the Seimas after the Seimas refused to lift my parliamentary immunity based on unfounded political speculations about corruption. I decided to stand before a pre-trail investigation to find out the true basis of allegations. 21 October 2004 Lithuanian General Prosecutors Office terminated a pre-trial investigation against me because of unfounded allegations.

Since 2008 Member of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania; Deputy Chairman of the Committee on European Affairs, member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Working groups
2000 head of the working group on improvements to the Statute of the Seimas.

2001 head of the working group on a new edition of the Law on Referendum.

2002 head of the working group on drafting the concept and requisite legislation of the work of the Seimas under the European Union membership conditions.

2002 head of the working group on elaboration of the program of the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the 13 January 1983 European Parliament Resolution on the Situation in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

2002 member of the Convention on the Future of Europe working groups on the Role of National Parliaments, Subsidiarity, and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

2003 member of the Convention on the Future of Europe working group on Social Europe.

2003 head of the working group on drafting of the Law on the Status of the Members of the European Parliament elected in the Republic of Lithuania.

2004 head of the working group on amendments to the Law on Government under the European Union membership conditions.

Other career
2004-2008 Public institution “The Social and Economic Research Institute (SETI)”, director.

Publications
1990-2004 author of over 140 legal acts and their amendments.

2002-2003 author and co-author of the contributions for the Convention on the Future of Europe.

1990-2004 co-author and editor of the following publications of the Seimas and the Committee on European Affairs of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania:

•	The Seimas on Lithuania’s road to the European Union;

•	The Role of the Parliament under the EU membership;

•	The 1997-2003 Review of the Activities of the Joint Interparliamentary Committee EU – Lithuania;

•	Material of the international conference “The Baltic Freedom: a Western Approach” for the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the 13 January 1983 European Parliament Resolution “On the Situation in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania”;

•	Material of the international conference “The National Constitution in the Context of the EU Enlargement”;

•	Material, including Declaration, of the international conference “The Enlarged EU and “Wider Europe”;

•	The Debate on the Future of Europe.

2006 co-author and editor of “The Social Democrats in the Lithuanian Parliaments”.

Decorations
1996 - 13 January 1991 Commemorative Medal.

2000 - Lithuanian Independence Medal on the occasion of its 10th Anniversary.

2002 - Medal of the Baltic Assembly for upholding the unity and cooperation of the Baltic States.

2003 - Orden do Mérito Grã-Cruz of the Republic of Portugal.

2004 - Order of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas the Commandor Cross.

2004 - Commemorative Medal on the occasion of Lithuania’s accession to the European Union.

2004 - Commemorative Statuette “Gražina” on the occasion of Lithuania’s joining the NATO.

2004 - Honorary Member of the Lithuanian Law University.

2005 awarded for his merits in the medicine as one of the initiators of the creation of the Lithuanian National Health Concept and Lithuanian legal basis for health system.

2010 awarded with the medal of the 20th anniversary of the Independence.

Interests
Science: History, sociology, law, healthcare.

Arts: literature, especially poetry, music.

On my free time: sports, tourism, especially canoeing.