Justas Vincas Paleckis (born 1 January 1942 in Kuybyshev, current Samara) is a Lithuanian ex- communist and politician, signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, and

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for the

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. He is also a member of the

Party of European Socialists The Party of European Socialists (PES) is a social democratic and progressive European political party. The PES comprises national-level political parties from all member states of the European Union (EU) plus Norway and the United Kingdom. ...

. Justas was born in Samara, Russia where his family resided during the

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. His father, served as the Acting President of Lithuania in 1940 and later as the head of state of the

Lithuanian SSR The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (Lithuanian SSR; lt, Lietuvos Tarybų Socialistinė Respublika; russian: Литовская Советская Социалистическая Республика, Litovskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialistiche ...

until 1967. After the war, the family returned to Lithuania, where he finished school in 1959 and then went on to study journalism at

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in 1964.

Personal life

J. Paleckis is married and has two sons and one daughter, Algirdas and Rimvydas and Justina respectively.

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The Representative of Lithuanians in European Parliament Justas Paleckis
1942 births Living people Lithuanian diplomats Social Democratic Party of Lithuania MEPs MEPs for Lithuania 2004–2009 MEPs for Lithuania 2009–2014 Vilnius University alumni Lithuanian male water polo players Children of national leaders Members of the Seimas {{Lithuania-MEP-stub