Viktoras Muntianas

Viktoras Muntianas (born November 11, 1951 in Marijampolė ) is a Lithuanian manager and former politician, President (2006-2008) and Vice-President (2004-2006) of the Lithuanian Parliament ( Seimas ).

Education and professional career

After graduating from high school in Kapsukas in 1968 , he studied at the Vilnius University of Technology from 1973 to 1978 at the Institute of Civil Engineering and at the Vilnius Party School . He worked as a civil engineer at Kaunas City Administration from 1979 before moving to the administration in 1986 and becoming deputy head of the planning committee in Kėdainiai County . After Lithuania's independence, he became the head of the Kėdainiai County Administration. From 1994 to 1996 he headed the district's "Ukio bankas" (economic bank) before moving to Viktor Uspaskich's " Vikonda " company, which is based in Kėdainiai, as vice chairman for one year .

Political career

This started his political career. From 1997 to 2004 he was an elected member of the Kėdainiai district council . In the 2004 parliamentary elections , he was elected to the Labor Party list in the Lithuanian parliament. After he was rejected by President Valdas Adamkus for the office of Minister of the Interior, he was elected one of the four deputy presidents of parliament.

In April 2006, he led a dissenting group that wanted to break the corruption allegations against Labor Party leader Viktor Uspaskich. First, Muntianas was elected to succeed Artūras Paulauskas, who had resigned due to a company car affair, as the new chairman of parliament. Shortly afterwards, on May 1, 2006, he and six other MPs announced that he was leaving the Labor Party. They founded the Civic Democracy Group ( Pilietinės Demokratija ) and shortly afterwards on May 16 the PDP party of the same name , of which Muntianas became chairman.

At the end of March 2008 he resigned as chairman of parliament after allegations of corruption had been brought against him. He is said to have bribed a leading official in the Kaunas administration in order to obtain building rights for a property. We were talking about the sum of 2,000 litas (around 600 euros). His resignation was accepted by the Seimas on March 31, 2008 with a large majority. On July 1, his parliamentary immunity was lifted.

He had also resigned from his position as chairman of the Democratic Citizens' Party. His successor is Algirdas Matulevičius .

In the parliamentary elections in 2008 he ran for the direct mandate in Kėdainiai, but lost significantly in the runoff election on October 26, 2008. From 2011 to 2015 he was a member of the Kėdainiai City Council.

From 2009 he was Deputy General Manager at Agrochemos mažmena , after which he became Director of General Affairs and Credit Management at Agrochema .

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SURNAME	Muntianas, Viktoras
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lithuanian politician and chairman of parliament
DATE OF BIRTH	November 11, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Marijampolė