Rimantas Dagys

Rimantas Jonas Dagys
MP
Member of the Seimas
Assumed office
14 November 2016
In office
15 November 1992  18 October 2000
Minister of Social Security and Labour
In office
9 December 2008  22 July 2009
Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius
Preceded by Vilija Blinkevičiūtė
Succeeded by Donatas Jankauskas
Member of the Seimas
for Šilainiai constituency
In office
15 November 2004  14 November 2016
Preceded by Vytautas Šustauskas
Succeeded by Ramūnas Karbauskis
Personal details
Born (1957-06-16) 16 June 1957
Kazachstan
Political party Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (1989 - 1999)
Lithuanian Social Democratic Union (1999 - 2001)
Homeland Union (2002 - )
Alma mater Vilnius University
Profession Chemist

Rimantas Jonas Dagys (born July 16, 1957) is a Lithuanian chemist and politician, member of Seimas (1992–1996, 1996–2000), since 2008 assigned Minister of Labor and Social Security by presidential decree.[1] He is currently associated with Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats.

Rimantas Dagys was born in the settlement of Churubai Nura (now Abay, Kazakhstan) to a family of former Gulag prisoners, deported form Lithuania for 10 years: his mother, Filomena Dagienė was imprisoned in Vorkuta camps, his father, Jonas Dagys, in Siblag camps. The family returned to Lithuania in 1964.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Rimantas Jonas Dagys", a biography at the Lithuanian parliament website


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