Rimantas Jonas Dagys (born 16 July 1957) is a

Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...

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and politician, member of the

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(1992–1996, 1996–2000), and from 2008 to 2009 assigned Minister of Labor and Social Security by presidential decree."Rimantas Jonas Dagys"
a biography at the Lithuanian parliament website Rimantas Dagys was born in the settlement of Sherubay-Noora (now Abay, Kazakhstan) to a family of former

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prisoners, deported from Lithuania for 10 years: his mother, Filomena Dagienė was imprisoned in

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camps, his father, Jonas Dagys, in Siblag camps. The family returned to Lithuania in 1964. On 26 June 2019 he announced about suspending his membership in

Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats ( lt, Tėvynės sąjunga Lietuvos krikščionys demokratai, TS–LKD), also known colloquially simply as the Conservatives, is a centre-right political party in Lithuania. It has 18,000 mem ...

, on the same day his membership was suspended by Discipline Committee of Homeland Union.Lauryna Vireliūnaitė „Rimantas Dagys apie suspenduotą narystę partijoje: vyksta demokratijos šventės tąsa“, „

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“, Publikuota: 2019 birželio 26 d. 10:31 , Atnaujinta: 2019 birželio 26 d. 10:4

/ref> Displine Committee has explained that this decision was made, since Rimantas Dagys has not removed his signature supporting the amendments of Child protection law (thus acting together with

Mindaugas Puidokas Mindaugas Puidokas (born 19 March 1979) is a Lithuanian politician, 2020 draft winner and journalist. He was an independent candidate for the 2019 Lithuanian presidential election. Biography He graduated from the Sports University, Kaunas, in ...

), has raised doubts about the correspondence of values of party's candidate in

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, Ingrida Šimonytė, to

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, has claimed that the amendments of Social enterprise law were proposed by party members Justas Džiugelis ir

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. R. Dagys claimed that the conflict has started because Homeland Union, as many other parties, rejected a clear

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, which, in his opinion is the fault of chairman

Gabrielius Landsbergis Gabrielius Landsbergis (born 7 January 1982 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the 18th Government of the Republic of Lithuania led by the Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė. He is a Member of the Seimas for Ce ...

, who, in his opinion, holds liberal views. Afterwards Rimantas Dagys established a party called Christian Union.Dalia Plikūnė, „Dagys steigia krikščioniškų pažiūrų partiją: ryškėja jos sudėtis“, BNS, ELTA, www.DELFI.lt 2020 m. vasario 8 d. 11:0

/ref> Its constituent congress happened on 8 February 2020.

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