Juozas Imbrasas

Juozas Imbrasas in the Vepriai

Juozas Imbrasas (born January 8, 1941 in Algirdai , Ukmergė Rajongemeinde ) is a Lithuanian politician. He was mayor of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius from June 1999 to April 2000 and again from April 16, 2007 to February 11, 2009 . He belongs to the order and justice party ( Tvarka ir teisingumas ).

biography

Studies, professional career

Juozas Imbrasas finished his studies in civil engineering in 1967 at the Vilnius branch of the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute (today Kaunas Technical University), where he then worked for three years as a research assistant. After working in various construction companies, he moved to state administration in 1972, where he worked as a senior engineer in the logistics department of the state building authority (until 1986), then the forest and paper industry department (until 1994). 1995–1997 he headed the municipal housing management company "UAB Naujamieščio būstas" in Vilnius.

Juozas Imbrasas is married and has two children.

politics

Juozas Imbrasas was a member of the conservative Fatherland League ( Tėvynės Sąjunga ) party from 1995 , for which he has served as deputy mayor of Vilnius since 1997 . In June 1999 he became mayor of Vilnius for a short time, succeeding his party colleague Rolandas Paksas, who was appointed Prime Minister of Lithuania . In December 1999 he joined Rolandas Paksas as a supporter of Rolandas Paksas from the Conservatives to the Liberal Union . After the local elections in March 2000, which were successful for the Liberal Union, Imbrasas left the mayor's office to Paksas, who had resigned from the office of prime minister, and remained deputy mayor until February 13, 2002. After he had publicly announced his disagreement with the sale of the municipal district heating network to the French company Dalkia , he was dismissed by the then incumbent mayor and party friend Artūras Zuokas . Imbrasas left the Liberal Union immediately afterwards and joined the Liberal Democratic Party ( Liberalų Demokratieų partija , LDP ), which was newly founded by Paksas in March 2002 . After the local elections in February 2003, a narrow majority of Social Democrats , Liberal Democrats, Social Liberals , Polish Election Action and the Russian Party elected the Social Democrat Gediminas Paviržis as the new Mayor of Vilnius and Imbrasas as the Deputy Mayor again. However, this election was declared invalid by a court, so that Paviržis and Imbrasas submitted their resignation on June 5, 2003. The new election was decided on June 25, 2003, the previous incumbent Artūras Zuokas for himself and Imbrasas acted from June 2003 to February 2007 only as parliamentary group chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party, renamed Tvarka ir teisingumas , in the city council and as a member of the city council committee for city operations.

After the local elections in 2007, Tvarka ir teisingumas took power in the capital in a coalition with the Social Democrats and the Polish election campaign. Since the chairman of the Tvarka ir teisingumas , Rolandas Paksas, has been banned from exercising political office since his impeachment as president, Imbrasas was elected as the new mayor on April 16, 2007. On February 8, 2009, however, the opposition (conservatives and liberals) announced that, with the support of the Social Democrats and the mayor, they wanted to vote out due to mismanagement and elect Vilius Navickas as mayor in his place. This election took place on February 10, 2009 with 29 votes out of 51 at a meeting boycotted by the parties of law and order, which had ruled until then, and the Polish election campaign . After initial resistance, Imbrasas handed the official business over to Navickas on February 12, but immediately challenged the election in court. The application for an injunction was rejected and the election of Navickas was declared lawful by the District Administrative Court on May 25, 2009 in the first instance.

In the elections to the European Parliament in June 2009 , Juozas Imbrasas received a seat in the European Parliament as one of two mandataries of the party “Tvarka ir teisingumas”.

In 2016, he chaired the first meeting at the Seimas as senior president .

MEP

From 2009 to 2014 Imbrasas is a member of the “Europe of Freedom and Democracy” group.

He is a member or deputy member of the following committees and delegations:

Member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism , the delegation to the parliamentary cooperation committees EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia, as well as the delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and in the delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly.

Imbrasas is deputy in the Committee on Regional Development and in the Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula.

Web links

• Short biography in the documents of the State Election Commission (lit.)
• Entry on Juozas Imbrasas in the European Parliament 's database of deputies

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Imbrasas' dismissal as Vice-Mayor of Vilnius in February 2002, press review of the Lithuanian Parliament of April 26, 2002 (lit.)
2. ↑ The reason was the participation of three city council members who were also Seimas members - an offense that the Lithuanian Constitutional Court had classified as unconstitutional at the end of 2002
3. ↑ Redial for the office of mayor of Vilnius, message on delfi.lt, June 11, 2003 (lit.)
4. ↑ Message about the impending voting out of Imbrazas on delfi.lt, February 9, 2009 (lit.)
5. ↑ Voting out of Mayor Imbrasas, message on delfi.lt, February 11, 2009 (lit.)
6. ↑ Handover from Imbrasas to Navickas, message on delfi.lt on February 13, 2009 (lit.)
7. ↑ The court allows an action, but refuses an injunction, message on delfi.lt on February 18, 2009 (lit.)
8. ↑ The court rejects the application for an interim injunction as unfounded, message delfi.lt on April 3, 2009 (lit.)
9. ↑ Court declares Navickas' election lawful, message delfi.lt on May 25, 2009 (lit.)
10. ^ MEPs from Lithuania in the European Parliament 2009-2014
11. ^ Website of the European Parliament

predecessor	Office	successor
Rolandas Paksas Artūras Zuokas	Mayor of Vilnius June 1999 - April 2000 April 16, 2007 - February 11, 2009	Rolandas Paksas Vilius Navickas