Andrius Bagdonas

Following his 2020 divorce, Bagdonas entered a new domestic partnership. He lives with his partner, Laima, and together they are raising a young son named Dovydas.

Bagdonas divorced his wife in 2020 and, as of 2023, had not entered into a new marriage or partnership.

Andrius Bagdonas was born on 8 September 1974 in Neringa, Lithuania.

Bagdonas is divorced and has two children.

He has two adult daughters, Andra and Augustė, from his previous marriage. Bagdonas has mentioned that Andra works in the startup sector and Augustė is involved in graphic design.

In 2015, he obtained a Master’s degree in Management of Recreation and Tourism from Klaipėda University.

He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Tourism and Recreation from Klaipėda University in 2013.

From 2014 to 2016, Bagdonas worked as an assistant to a Member of the European Parliament in Lithuania.

In September 2025, he submitted legal amendments that would require state institutions to notify citizens when their personal identity documents are about to expire.

He suspended his membership in the Liberal Movement party amid the so-called 'receipt scandal' investigation.

He is a member of the Seimas (2024–2028 term), serving since 14 November 2024 as a representative of the Liberal Movement.

He maintained a perfect attendance record in the Seimas 2024 spring session – not missing a single plenary sitting – and was among the most active MPs, partaking in the highest number of votes and co-sponsoring 29 bills that session.

In June 2023, Bagdonas registered a proposal in the Seimas to keep the existing gift tax regime unchanged, opposing the government’s plan to exempt large agricultural gifts from taxation.

He served as a Member of the 13th Seimas from 13 November 2020 until 14 November 2024.

Bagdonas served as Deputy Chair of the Liberal Movement party from 2019 to 2023.

He chaired the Liberal Movement’s Klaipėda Regional Coordination Council from 2013 to 2015.

He has been a member of the Liberal Movement since 2012.

Starting in 2012, he served as the head of the Liberal Movement’s Neringa branch (local party chapter).

Bagdonas served as a member of the Neringa Municipal Council for multiple consecutive terms from 2009 until 2020.

He resumed his role as a member of the Seimas and Lithuanian World Community Commission in the 2024–2028 parliamentary term, beginning in December 2024.

Since December 2024, Bagdonas has served as Deputy Chair of the Seimas Interparliamentary Relations Group with Ireland.

In December 2024, he was appointed as a member of the Seimas delegation to the joint assembly of the Lithuanian Seimas and the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada.

He is also a member of numerous Seimas interparliamentary friendship groups, including those for relations with Greece, Spain, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and France (all as of late 2024).

In the 2024–2028 term, he has been serving as a member of the Seimas Committee on Economics since November 2024.

He served as a member of the Seimas Committee for the Future from November 2024 until October 2025.

He was a member of the Seimas Subcommittee on Tourism from September 2024 to November 2024.

He served as a member of the Seimas Subcommittee on Enhancing the Competitiveness of the Lithuanian Economy from December 2023 to November 2024.

He was a member of the Seimas Subcommittee on High Technology, Innovation and Digital Economy from January 2021 to November 2024.

He was a member of the Commission of the Seimas and the Lithuanian World Community (diaspora commission) from 2020 to 2024.

Bagdonas was Deputy Chair of the Seimas Commission for Ethics and Procedures from December 2020 to November 2024.

He was a member of the Seimas Committee on Economics during 2020–2024.

He was also a member of the Seimas Committee on European Affairs from 2020 to 2024.

In the Neringa Municipal Council, he chaired the Audit Committee during 2019–2020.

He also chaired the Anticorruption Commission of the Neringa Municipal Council from 2015 to 2019.

In the 2024 Seimas elections, the Liberal Movement received 7.85% of the vote nationwide and won 12 seats, allowing Bagdonas to retain his mandate as one of the party’s list-elected MPs in the new (14th) Seimas.

In the 2024 Seimas elections, Bagdonas was ranked 5th on the Liberal Movement’s national candidate list – a significant rise from the previous election – reflecting his growing influence in the party.

He was re-elected to the Seimas in 2024, again through the Liberal Movement’s party list.

In the October 2020 parliamentary elections, the Liberal Movement won 7.04% of the national vote (79,742 votes), earning 13 seats in the Seimas. Bagdonas, listed as a Liberal Movement candidate, was among those who secured a seat via the party list.

In the 2020 Seimas elections, Bagdonas was listed as number 2 on the Liberal Movement’s national list. After the vote count and preferential ballots, he ended up 8th in the party’s final ranking, just below the 6 candidates who won seats through the multi-member constituency (the party earned 6 mandates with 6.78% of the vote). However, because two higher-ranked Liberal candidates – Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen and Viktoras Pranckietis – won in single-member districts, Bagdonas moved up and secured a Seimas seat via the list.

In 2020, Bagdonas was elected to the Seimas as a Liberal Movement candidate via the multi-member national list.

By mid-2025, Bagdonas’s publicly declared net worth was about €365,000 (per VMI data), placing him among the fifteen wealthiest Seimas members.

As a Member of the Seimas, Bagdonas receives a state-funded salary (approximately €3,000 gross per month in the early 2020s, based on the statutory pay scale for MPs).

Between 2020 and 2025, his asset declarations show no drastic changes or unexplained spikes – his net worth remained in the mid-six-figure range (€330k–€365k), growing gradually in line with normal earnings.

As a candidate in the 2020 elections, Bagdonas declared owning over €330,000 in total assets, the bulk of which was immovable property (registrable assets).

No unexplained spikes or sudden increases in Bagdonas’s declared wealth were observed from 2015 to 2025 – his financial disclosures show a steady situation, with any growth attributable to regular earnings. There is no public indication of suspicious enrichment during his time in office.

During his tenure as a European Parliament member’s assistant (2014–2016), he earned a salary (estimated around €1,500 per month) paid from the MEP’s office budget.

Municipal council positions in Lithuania are not paid full salaries – as a Neringa Council member (2009–2020), Bagdonas only received small stipends for attending meetings (on the order of a few hundred euros per month).

In 2012, he co-founded the Neringa Youth Roundtable, the first youth organization in Neringa.

He was the president of the Neringa sports club “Kuršiai” from 2007 to 2009.

In April 2025, prosecutors forwarded a criminal case to court against Bagdonas, with charges of abuse of office, document forgery, and fraud.

In late 2024, the Seimas lifted Bagdonas’s parliamentary immunity at the request of Prosecutor General Nida Grunskienė, in relation to an alleged expenses fraud case.

Bagdonas stated that he repaid €4,223 through a civil settlement to cover the damages related to the expense-report case.

He was accused of having falsified five municipal council expense reports for fuel in 2020, illegally obtaining about €580.

Bagdonas has denied any wrongdoing in the alleged expenses fraud case, insisting that all his claimed expenditures were legitimate and calling the prosecution "politically motivated".

In April 2024, Bagdonas criticized initiatives to make helmet use mandatory for adult cyclists and e-scooter riders, arguing that urban safety should be achieved through planning and education rather than coercive rules.

He argued that the law should require politicians’ cohabiting partners to declare their assets, noting that limiting declarations to legally married spouses leaves a transparency gap.

In February 2021, Bagdonas penned an open letter urging Minister Aušrinė Armonaitė to spur a biotechnology breakthrough in Lithuania as a way to avoid the “middle-income trap” and drive high-value economic growth.

He publicly advocated for organizing a second referendum on retaining dual citizenship in 2024.

In 2013, he was awarded the First Class Commemorative Medal by the Lithuanian Basketball Federation for contributions to Lithuanian basketball.

He received the Neringa Municipal Council’s Badge of Honour in 2011.