Gražulis, Petras

Name: Petras Gražulis

Years active: 11/16/2012

Party: Order and Justice Political Group, Chair (from 11/16/2012)

Roles

• Member of the Party “Order and Justice”
• Since 2012: Member, Committee on State Administration and Local Authorities
• Since 2012: Member, Commission for the Rights and Affairs of Participants of Resistance to Occupation Regimes and Victims of Occupation
• Since 2012: Member, Commission for Ethics and Procedures
• Since 2012: Chair, Order and Justice Political Group
• Since 2012: Member, Conference of Chairs
• Since 2012: Member, Seimas Delegation to the Assembly of Members of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, the Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland, and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
• Since 2012: Substitute, Seimas Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
• 2008–2012: Member, Committee on Education, Science and Culture
• 2008–2012: Member, Committee on Legal Affairs
• 2008–2012: Member, Anticorruption Commission
• 2008–2012: Member, Commission for the Rights and Affairs of Participants of Resistance to Occupation Regimes and Victims of Occupation
• 2004–2008: Member, Committee on Rural Affairs
• 2004–2008: Member, Committee on Human Rights
• 2001–2004: Chairman, Board of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party
• 2000–2004: Member, Committee on Rural Affairs
• 2000–2004: Member, Committee on Legal Affairs
• 2000–2004: Deputy Chair, Member, Commission for Sustainable Development and Protection of Immovable Cultural Properties
• 2000–2003: Member, Klaipėda District Municipal Council
• 1996–2000: Member, Committee on Rural Affairs
• 1990–1995: Member, Kaunas City Municipal Council
• 1990–1995: Member, Committee on Education and Culture
• 1990–1994: Chairman, Division of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party in Kaunas
• 1989: Member, Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party, one of the initiators of the re-establishment of the Party

Education

• 1964–1975: Miroslavas Secondary School, Alytus District

History

He was born on 28 October 1958 in Mankūnai Village, Alytus District, Lithuania. Married with four children

Initiator of the weekly Apžvalga (Review) by the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party

Involvement in close cooperation with the members of the Committee on Believers’ Rights

Member of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights

Distributor of Lietuvos Katalikų Bažnyčios Kronika (Chronicle of the Lithuanian Catholic Church)

Imprisoned in Lukiškės and Pravieniškės, Lithuania, and in Mordovia for anti-Soviet activities (1988)

Languages: Lithuanian (native), Russian, French

Hobbies: sport, music

Work experience:

• 1992–1996: Co-founder and Manager, private company UAB Ordo

External Links and References

• Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania