Rimantas Dagys

Rimantas Jonas Dagys (born 16 July 1957) is a Lithuanian politician, member of the Seimas (1992–1996, 1996–2000), and from 2008 to 2009 assigned Minister of Labor and Social Security by presidential decree.

Rimantas Dagys was born in the settlement of Sherubay-Noora (now Abay, Kazakhstan) to a family of former Gulag prisoners, deported from 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. Discipline Committee has explained that this decision was made, since Rimantas Dagys has not removed his signature supporting the amendments of Child protection law (thus acting together with Mindaugas Puidokas), has raised doubts about the correspondence of values of party's candidate in 2019 Lithuanian presidential election, Ingrida Šimonytė, to Christian democracy, has claimed that the amendments of Social enterprise law were proposed by party members Justas Džiugelis and Monika Navickienė. Its constituent congress happened on 8 February 2020.