Ieva Budraitė (born 1992 in

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) is a

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n politician and leader of the Lithuanian Green Party, a green-liberal

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Biography

After graduating from high school with distinction in 2010 at the Jotvingių Gymnasium Alytus, Ieva Budraitė completed a bachelor's degree in

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from 2010 to 2014 and a master's degree in

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analysis from 2014 to 2016 at the Institute of

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and Political Science of

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in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. From 2014 to 2016 she was the project coordinator at the

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and

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Association. From 2016 to 2020, Budraitė was the director of the Green Policy Institute () and was the administrative director of the Lithuanian Green Party. From October 2018 she was the deputy chairwoman of the Green Party. Budraitė ran in the local elections in 2019 as a candidate for councilor of the municipality of

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, in the European elections in Lithuania in 2019 and in the parliamentary elections in Lithuania in 2020, where she was second in the list. Since November 21, 2020, she is the chair of the Lithuanian Green Party.Ieva Budraitė has been elected the new leader of the Lithuanian Green Party
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References

21st-century Lithuanian politicians Vilnius University alumni Living people 1992 births People from Alytus {{Lithuania-politician-stub