Aidas Gedvilas
„Nemuno Aušros“ frakcija
Oficialus Seimo profilis ↗Aidas Gedvilas yra Lietuvos politikas, verslininkas ir inžinierius, gimęs 1966 metais Šiauliuose. Jis turi ilgametę patirtį tiek versle, tiek politikoje, yra buvęs Seimo narys, viceministras, ir aktyviai dalyvauja vietos savivaldoje bei verslo organizacijose.
He speaks English and Russian.
He is married to Andželika and has a son, Kristijonas, and a daughter, Mona Liza.
Aidas Gedvilas was born on 9 June 1966 in Šiauliai.
From 1987 to 1992, he studied at the Šiauliai Evening Faculty of Kaunas Polytechnic Institute, specializing in mechanical engineering.
In 1985, he graduated from Šiauliai K. Didžiulis Polytechnic, specializing in automobile repair and maintenance.
In 1981, he graduated from the Julius Janonis Secondary School (now Julius Janonis Gymnasium) in Šiauliai.
From 1987 to 1991, he held various positions at Šiaulių autoservisas, including service receptionist (1987), chief engineer of technical control (1988), chief mechanic (1990), and engineer-supplier (1991).
From 1985 to 1987, he served in the Soviet Army.
On 4 December 2024, he was elected chairman of the Seimas Energy and Sustainable Development Commission.
He was re-elected to the Seimas for the 2024–2028 term and began serving on 14 November 2024.
In 2024, he joined the newly established political party "Nemuno Aušra".
In 2024, he served as a deputy head of the Seimas Mixed Group of members of Parliament.
In 2023, he ran as an independent candidate for Mayor of Vilnius.
After leaving the Labour Party in late 2022, he continued in the Seimas as an unaffiliated member, joining the Mixed Group of MPs.
In 2022, he announced his candidacy for the post of chairman of the Labour Party.
He served as a deputy chairman of the Labour Party in 2022.
In 2022, he left the Labour Party.
Late in 2022, he cited what he viewed as inappropriate behavior by Labour Party chairman Andrius Mazuronis as the reason for his departure from the party.
He served as Deputy Chairman of the Seimas Environment Protection Committee from 2021 until 2024.
He served as a Member of the Seimas during the 2020–2024 parliamentary term.
From 2020 to 2022, he was a member of the Seimas Committee for the Future.
From 2019 to 2020, he was a member of the Vilnius City Municipal Council, serving on the Environment and Energy Committee and the Control Committee.
Since 2018, he has served as a deputy chairman to Viktor Uspaskich, the leader of the Labour Party.
Since 2011, he has been a member of the Šiauliai City Municipal Council.
From 2011 to 2015, he served as a member of the Šiauliai City Municipal Council.
He is a presidium member of the Lithuanian Business Employers Confederation and a council member of its Šiauliai branch.
He is also a member of the board of the Oil Producers Association and a member of the Šiauliai District Business Association.
In 2005, he was appointed Vice Minister of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania.
He served as a Member of the Seimas (Lithuanian Parliament) during 2004-2005.
During his 2004–2005 term in the Seimas, he was a member of the Economics Committee.
In 2003, he joined the Labour Party (Darbo partija) and was a member of its presidium, serving as the chairman of the party's Šiauliai branch.
From 2000 to 2003, he was a member of the Šiauliai City Council, elected on the New Union (Social Liberals) list with support from the Lithuanian Business Employers Confederation, and was a member of the city municipality board.
In the 2024 parliamentary elections, representing the new party Nemuno Aušra, he was re-elected to the Seimas via the multi-member list; the party received about 15% of votes nationwide and won 14 seats in the Seimas.
In the 2023 Vilnius mayoral election, running as an independent, he garnered only a few percent of the vote, finishing near the bottom of a 16-candidate field (14th place). He failed to advance to the runoff, as the top two candidates (Valdas Benkunskas and Artūras Zuokas) moved on to the second round.
In the 2020 parliamentary elections, he ran in the Šeškinės–Šnipiškių single-member constituency in Vilnius (without winning the seat), but he entered the Seimas via the Labour Party’s list. The party won 9 seats in the multi-member district, and he was initially 12th on the list (10th after preferential votes) – just below the cutoff – but secured a mandate when a higher-ranked candidate declined the seat.
As a Member of the Seimas, he receives a monthly salary determined by the statutory base pay and his parliamentary roles (approximately around €3,300 gross, estimated).
As of early 2023, his officially declared assets were approximately €226,000.
For 2011, a corrected asset declaration showed that he had assets worth 4.52 million LTL (about €1.31 million), up from 3.53 million LTL initially declared. His wife’s declared assets also rose from 1.02 million to 1.27 million LTL, a change he attributed to an earlier calculation error rather than newfound wealth.
As Vice Minister of Transport and Communications (2005), his monthly salary would have been roughly 6,175 LTL before taxes (around €1,800 in pre-tax terms), based on the typical pay for that position at the time.
His former wife, Jolanta Gedvilienė, at one time served as the director of his company UAB "Aidma" and was involved in the company’s operations (such as procuring granite tiles from suppliers in China).
From 2012 to 2020, he served as director of UAB Soltekana.
In 1997, he founded another company, UAB Digikomas, also serving as its owner and director.
In 1995, he founded the private company UAB Aidma, serving as its owner and director.
According to testimony by Jolanta Gedvilienė, the couple had once formally divorced to bypass a legal restriction and obtain government support for purchasing an additional home, even though they continued living together; this maneuver was intended to increase their family’s real-estate holdings with state assistance.
In 2020, his ex-wife Jolanta Gedvilienė accused him of misappropriating granite paving tiles worth about €19,250 after their divorce. By 2023, both the Vilnius city court and the appellate court had dismissed her claims, concluding the materials belonged to his company and ordering her to cover approximately €7,700 in legal costs incurred by him and UAB "Aidma".
In early 2013, as a Šiauliai City Council member, he faced possible removal from his council seat due to chronic absenteeism. In 2012, he skipped 7 out of 13 council meetings – including six in a row – prompting the council’s Ethics Commission to summon him over the record-setting no-shows.