Raimundas Alekna

Raimundas Alekna (born on 16 April 1959), is a Lithuanian politician, psychiatrist psychotherapist, and former athlete who served as the Mayor of Vilnius from 2010 to 2011. He also served as the Minister of Health from 1999 to 2000.

Biography

Alekna was born on 16 April 1959. That same year, he received the highest qualification category of a physician psychiatrist.

In 1995, he was the member of the Panevezys city council, and at the same time, he was the deputy mayor.

In 1996, he ran for the Seimas from the Homeland Union list, but did not win a seat. In 1997, he received first qualification category of a physician psychotherapist. The same year, he entered the Seimas in place of the deceased Romualdas Sikorskis. He was then appointed secretary of the Ministry of Health.

On 10 June 1999, Alekna became the Minister of Health.

On 9 November 2000, he left office to become the Chief Physician of Vilnius Dawn Gate Hospital.

In 2002, he was the Director of the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. In 2003, he was elected to the Vilnius city council.

He successfully ran in the parliamentary elections in 2008, entering the Seimas from the TS-LKD list. Before the first session of the parliament of the new term, he submitted a declaration of refusal to take up the mandate, remaining in the local government.

From 2009 to December 2010 he was an advisor to Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius. On 15 December 2010, he was elected mayor of Vilnius.

He left office on 19 April 2011.

From 2013 to 2014, he was the Director of the Ąžuolynas Clinic.

Family

Alekna is married for the second time. He married his first wife in his second year of college and has two sons with her. He has a son and a daughter with his second wife.