Leonas Alesionka (born 6 January 1949 in

Švenčionys Švenčionys (, known also by several alternative names) is a town located north of Vilnius in Lithuania. It is the capital of the Švenčionys district municipality. , it had population of 4,065 of which about 17% is part of the Polish minority ...

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) is a Lithuanian politician and former member of the

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Biography

Alesionka was born to a working-class family in

. In 1972 Alesionka graduated from Faculty of Medicine within

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. Between 1973 and 1975 he worked as a doctor of

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and

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. Between 1975 and 1982 he worked as a doctor of

and

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district hospital. Alesionka joined the activities of

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in 1988. In the elections in 1992, he was elected as the member of the Sixth Seimas through the electoral list of

Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos demokratinė darbo partija, LDDP) was the renamed Communist Party of Lithuania. It was a political party in Lithuania in the 1990s, which claimed to be social-democratic. The youth organizati ...

. Alesionka became a member of the

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in 2001. Between 1997 and 2003 he served on the municipal council of

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, between 2000 and 2001 - as its mayor. In 2010, Alesionka, who had been working as a representative of the

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, won 1 million

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(290 thousand

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s) in a national lottery. In 2012, Alesionka announced his departure from the Social Democratic Party and his intentions to run for a seat in the parliament representing the Republican Party. In the elections later that year, he received less than 7% of the votes in the

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single-seat constituency.

References

1949 births Living people Members of the Seimas People from Švenčionys District Municipality Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania politicians Social Democratic Party of Lithuania politicians {{Lithuania-politician-stub