Aloyzas Sakalas (6 July 1931 – 18 July 2022)
was a Lithuanian politician, signatory of the
Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
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, and
Member of the European Parliament
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When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...
with the
Social Democratic Party of Lithuania
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. Aloyzas Sakalas was also a part of the
Socialist Group
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The g ...
and sat on the
European Parliament
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's
Committee on Legal Affairs.
Aloyzas Sakalas was a substitute for the
Committee on Foreign Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with Belarus.
Education
* 1960:
Degree
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...
in
Engineering
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from the
Kaunas Polytechnic Institute
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* 1970: Doctorate
* 1972: Associate Professor
* 1977: Qualification as a Professor of Physics and Mathematics
* 1980: Professor at the
University of Vilnius
Career
* 1960–1962: Engineer at the Institute for Electrographics
* 1982–1990: Lecturer of the Associate Professor and Professor at the
University of Vilnius
* 1989–1991: Member of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LDSP)
* 1991–1999: Chairman of the LSDP
* since 1999: Honorary Chairman of the LSDP
* 1990–1992: Chairman of the Committee on the Verification of Credentials of the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania
* 1992–1996: Deputy President of Parliament
* 1996–2004: Member of Parliament
* 2000–2004: Chairman of the Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs
* 1993–2004: Chairman of the organisation 'Help Lithuanian Children'
* Honours
See also
*
2004 European Parliament election in Lithuania
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1931 births
2022 deaths
Lithuanian physicists
Social Democratic Party of Lithuania MEPs
MEPs for Lithuania 2004–2009
Vilnius University faculty
Kaunas University of Technology alumni
People from Anykščiai
Members of the Seimas
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