The Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees ( lt, Lietuvos politinių kalinių ir tremtinių sąjunga, LPKTS) was a political party in

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 ...

between 1990 and 2004. It represented interest of those repressed by the

Soviet regime The political system of the Soviet Union took place in a federal single-party soviet socialist republic framework which was characterized by the superior role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the only party permitted by the Co ...

, particularly political prisoners and deportees to Siberia, as well as of the activist struggling for Lithuanian independence.

History

The organization was established on 30 July 1988 as the Club of the Exiled (''Tremtinio klubas'') of Sąjūdis in Kaunas, later becoming a political party.

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was an establisher and chairman of the "Tremtinio klubas".Virginija Skučaitė
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August 1, 2012 In the 1992 elections the ran on a joint list with the

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and the

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. The joint list won 18 seats, with the LPKTS taking 2. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p. 1209 It ran alone in the 1996 elections, winning a single seat.

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in the

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, with 19 of its candidates on the Homeland list. In 2004 it merged into the

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tv3.lt, February 8, 2004 However it was not dissolved into the Homeland Union and remains its structural unit (the Political Prisoners and Deportees faction).

Leaders

* Balys Gajauskas, the first chairman * , 1997–1999; moved to the Homeland Union in 1999 *

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, since 2019Jadvyga Bieliavska, "A.Anušauskas išrinktas TS-LKD Politinių kalinių ir tremtinių frakcijos pirmininku",

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, June 10, 2019

References

External links

Official website
{{Authority control Defunct political parties in Lithuania Political parties established in 1988 Political parties disestablished in 2004 Political imprisonment in the Soviet Union