Vilija Aleknaitė-Abramikienė
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Vilija Aleknaitė-Abramikienė (born 4 May 1957 in Lyduvėnai, Raseiniai district, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian politician and member of the Seimas.
Biography
Aleknaitė-Abramikienė was born to a family of civil servants in Lyduvėnai, Raseiniai district, Lithuania on 4 May 1957.
In 1975 Aleknaitė-Abramikienė graduated from M.K. Čiurlionis art school, in 1980 - from the Lithuanian Conservatory, as a pianist and musicologist. From 1980 she worked at the conservatory as a concertmaster and instructor.
Aleknaitė-Abramikienė joined the activities of Sąjūdis in 1988. In the elections in 1992, Aleknaitė-Abramikienė was elected as the member of the Sixth Seimas through the electoral list of Sąjūdis. In 1993 she was one of the founding members of the Homeland Union party as it emerged from Sąjūdis. She was reelected to the Seimas in the elections of 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012.