Lithuanian_Union_of_Political_Prisoners_and_Deportees

Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees

Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees

Former Lithuanian political party

The Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees (Lithuanian: Lietuvos politinių kalinių ir tremtinių sąjunga, LPKTS) was a political party in Lithuania between 1990 and 2004. It represented interest of those repressed by the Soviet regime, particularly political prisoners and deportees to Siberia, as well as of the activist struggling for Lithuanian independence.

LPKTS office in Kaunas, 2017

History

The organization was established on 30 July 1988 as the Club of the Exiled (Tremtinio klubas) of Sąjūdis in Kaunas, later becoming a political party. Audrius Butkevičius was an establisher and chairman of the "Tremtinio klubas".[1]

In the 1992 elections the ran on a joint list with the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party and the Lithuanian Democratic Party. The joint list won 18 seats, with the LPKTS taking 2.[2] It ran alone in the 1996 elections, winning a single seat.

Audrius Butkevičius was an establisher and chairman of the "Tremtinio klubas" ("Club of Deportees") of Sąjūdis in Kaunas, the precursor of the Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees.[1]

The party ran in alliance with the Homeland Union in the 2000 elections, with 19 of its candidates on the Homeland list.[3] In 2004 it merged into the Homeland Union.[4][5] However it was not dissolved into the Homeland Union and remains its structural unit (the Political Prisoners and Deportees faction).[6]

Leaders

References

  1. [1]
    Virginija Skučaitė, "Dešimtmečio kelią paženklino 1000-asis numeris", August 1, 2012
  2. [2]
    Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p. 1209 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  3. [3]
    Parliamentary election derby starts in Lithuania The Baltic Times, 14 September 2000
  4. [4]
    Lithuania - Political parties Archived 2014-04-16 at the Wayback Machine NSD European Elections Database
  5. [5]
    Didžiausia partija siūlo Lietuvai naują sutartį, tv3.lt, February 8, 2004
  6. [6]
    Jadvyga Bieliavska, "A.Anušauskas išrinktas TS-LKD Politinių kalinių ir tremtinių frakcijos pirmininku", ELTA, June 10, 2019"Respublika - Naujienų ir žinių portalas". Archived from the original on 2022-01-27. Retrieved 2022-10-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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