Aloyzas Sakalas

Aloyzas Sakalas (6 July 1931 – 18 July 2022) was a Lithuanian politician, signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, and Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania. Aloyzas Sakalas was also a part of the Socialist Group and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs.

Aloyzas Sakalas was a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with Belarus. He had three children.

Education

• 1960: Degree in radio engineering from the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute
• 1969: Doctorate from Vilnius State University
• 1972: Associate Professor
• 1977: Qualification as a professor of Physics and Mathematics
• 1980: Professor at the University of Vilnius

Career

• 1960–1962: Engineer at the Institute for Electrographics
• 1982–1990: Lecturer of the Associate Professor and Professor at the University of Vilnius
• 1989–1991: Member of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LDSP)
• 1991–1999: Chairman of the LSDP
• since 1999: Honorary Chairman of the LSDP
• 1990–1992: Chairman of the Committee on the Verification of Credentials of the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania
• 1992–1996: Deputy President of Parliament
• 1996–2004: Member of Parliament
• 2000–2004: Chairman of the Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs
• 1996–2004: Chairman of the organisation 'Help Lithuanian Children'

See also

• 2004 European Parliament election in Lithuania

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