Audrius Butkevicius
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Audrius Butkevičius is a Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

n politician, a signatory the of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
The Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania or Act of March 11 was an independence declaration by the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic adopted on March 11, 1990...

, member of the Seimas
Seimas
The Seimas is the unicameral Lithuanian parliament. It has 141 members that are elected for a four-year term. About half of the members of this legislative body are elected in individual constituencies , and the other half are elected by nationwide vote according to proportional representation...

 (parliament
Parliament
A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that of the United Kingdom. The name is derived from the French , the action of parler : a parlement is a discussion. The term came to mean a meeting at which...

 of Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

) from November 25, 1996 till October 18, 2000. He does not belong to any party.

In 1988 was one of the organizers of the Lithuanian reform Movement "Sąjūdis
Sajudis
Sąjūdis initially known as the Reform Movement of Lithuania, is the political organization which led the struggle for Lithuanian independence in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was established on June 3, 1988 and was led by Vytautas Landsbergis...

", a member of the Sąjūdis Seimas. He was an establisher and chairman of the Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees
Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees
The Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees was a political party in Lithuania during 1990-2004.-History and cativities:The organization was established on July 30, 1988 under the name "Tremtinio klubas", "Club of the Exiled". Later it became a political party.On October 7, 2004 it...

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