Agnė Bilotaitė (born 29 January 1982) is a

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politician from the

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group and has been member of the

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since 2008. On 7 December 2020, she was approved to be the

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in the

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Early life and education

Agnė Bilotaitė was born on 29 January 1982 in

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. She received her Bachelor of Political Sciences from

Klaipėda University Klaipėda University ( or KU) is a university in the Lithuanian port city of Klaipėda. Overview Klaipėda University was formally founded on 1 January 1991, by a decree of the Seimas (the Lithuanian parliament). The new university incorpora ...

and

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from

Mykolas Romeris University Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) is a public university located in Vilnius, Kaunas, Marijampolė, Lithuania. It was established in 1990 as the Lithuanian Police Academy and became Mykolas Romeris University in 2004, named after Professor Mykol ...

Career

In 2006, Bilotaitė became the manager of

Homeland Union The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (, TS–LKD), also colloquially known as the Conservatives (), is a centre-right political party in Lithuania. It has 18,000 members and 28 of 141 seats in the Seimas. Its current leader ...

's Western Division and was elected to the

Tenth Seimas of Lithuania The Tenth Seimas of Lithuania was a parliament (Seimas) elected in Lithuania. Elections took place on 12 October 2008, with the run-off on 26 October. The Seimas commenced its work on 17 November 2008 and served a four-year term, with the last ses ...

in 2008. She was member of the Nuclear Energy Commission and deputy chief of the Anti-Corruption Commission of the parliament. During her second term in the Eleventh Seimas, she served on the Committees on Environment Protection and State Administration and Local Authorities. After winning the

2016 Lithuanian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 9 and 23 October 2016 to elect the 141 members of the Seimas. 71 were elected in single-member constituencies using the two-round system, and the remaining 70 in a single nationwide constituency u ...

, Bilotaitė began her third term in Seimas. She is the deputy chair of Homeland Union - Lithuanian Christian Democrat Political Group in the parliament and a member of Committee on Audit and Anti-Corruption Commission.

Personal life

Bilotaitė is married to Gintas Petrus. She gave birth to their son in July 2017.

References

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