Rūta Miliūtė
Demokratų frakcija „Vardan Lietuvos“
Oficialus Seimo profilis ↗Rūta Miliūtė yra Lietuvos politikė, gyvenime gimusi 1990 m. lapkričio 27 d. Kaune. Ji yra buvusi seimo narė nuo 2016 metų, priklauso Demokratų frakcijai „Vardan Lietuvos“, kuriai atstovauja nuo 2021 metų. Yra studijavusi politikos mokslus ir viešąją politiką, turi bakalauro ir magistro laipsnius. Buvo jauniausia Seimo narė įstojusi dar iki 26-ojo gimtadienio. Per savo politinę karjerą ėjo įvairias pareigas, buvo Seimo Europos reikalų komiteto pirmininko pavaduotoja, įvairių pakomitetių pirmininkė, taip pat vadovavo Seimo delegacijoms Pasaulinėje ir Europos parlamentinėje sąjungose. Kalba anglų ir vokiečių kalbomis.
She was born on 27 November 1990 in Kaunas, Lithuania.
She is married.
She speaks English and German.
Although Miliūtė is married, she has not publicly revealed her husband’s identity, and no information about her spouse or family wealth is disclosed in official sources.
She earned a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Administration from Kaunas University of Technology in 2017.
She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Vilnius University in 2014.
Since 2016, Miliūtė has served as a member of the Seimas (Lithuanian Parliament), a position that carries a base monthly salary of approximately €3,356 gross (about €2,000 net) as of 2019.
In 2016, she worked as a political party activities coordinator.
In 2015, she was a regional marketing project coordinator at the company Teo LT.
During her 2015 tenure as a regional marketing project coordinator at Teo LT, her salary was likely on the order of €700–800 per month (the average specialist’s pay at Teo LT was about 2,500 LTL, or ~€724, at that time).
In 2014, she worked as a marketing project coordinator at UAB Diena Media News.
She is serving as a member of the 14th Seimas, with her current term beginning on 19 November 2024.
She has been a board member of the Democratic Union “Vardan Lietuvos” since 2022.
Rūta Miliūtė is a member of the Seimas parliamentary group "Demokratų frakcija ‘Vardan Lietuvos’" (Democrats "For Lithuania").
She served as a member of the 13th Seimas from 13 November 2020 to 14 November 2024.
She was a member of the 12th Seimas from 14 November 2016 to 13 November 2020.
From 2016 to 2020, she served as a member of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) parliamentary faction in the Seimas.
As of the 2024–2028 term, she is a member of both the Foreign Affairs Committee and the European Affairs Committee of the Seimas.
She is the Chair of the Seimas delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in the 2024–2028 term.
During the 2020–2024 term, she served as Deputy Chair of the Seimas delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
She was the Chair of the Seimas Women’s Parliamentary Group during the 2020–2024 term.
She served as a member of the Seimas Committee on Economics from November 2017 until November 2020.
She served as a member of the Seimas Commission for Youth and Sport Affairs from June 2017 to November 2020.
She was a member of the Seimas Commission for Ethics and Procedures from March 2017 until July 2019.
She served as the Deputy Chair of the Seimas European Affairs Committee during the 2016–2020 term.
She was the Chair of the Seimas Subcommittee on High Technologies, Innovation and Digital Economy during 2016–2020.
She headed the Seimas delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly during the 2016–2020 term.
She was also a member of the Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs from late 2016 until late 2017.
She also served on the Seimas Petitions Commission from November 2016 to May 2017.
In the 2024 elections, she was elected as a candidate of the Democratic Union "Vardan Lietuvos" ("For Lithuania") via its list.
She was re-elected to the Seimas in 2020 through the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union’s party list (rather than a constituency), and again in 2024 via the list of the Democratic Union "Vardan Lietuvos" – in each case winning her seat based on the party’s nationwide vote and her preferential votes.
She was re-elected to the Seimas in 2020, again as a candidate of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union via its party list.
In the 2016 parliamentary elections, she was elected to the Seimas via the nationwide list of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS).
In 2016, she joined an election campaign staff and decided to run for the Seimas, even though she was not a party member at the time.
In the 2016 parliamentary election, she was ranked 114th on the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) party list but received enough preferential votes to rise to 28th place, securing a seat in the Seimas.
In the 2016 parliamentary elections, she did not run in a single-member constituency but was elected via the nationwide party list – initially placed 114th on the LVŽS list, she leapt to 28th place after preferential votes, securing a seat as one of the party’s list candidates.
Some voters in the 2016 Seimas elections gave Rūta Miliūtė preferential votes mistakenly thinking she was the famous TV journalist Rita Miliūtė (due to the similarity of their names).
She garnered almost 3,600 preferential (reitingo) votes in the 2016 parliamentary election, which lifted her from 114th to 28th on the LVŽS party list – securing her a seat in the Seimas.
A reform to parliamentary pay took effect in late 2024, raising a rank-and-file MP’s net monthly salary from roughly €2,183 to about €3,781 (after taxes). Miliūtė’s take-home pay thus nearly doubled with the start of the 2024–2028 Seimas term.
By 2023, her declared net worth remained very modest – under €20,000 in total assets – placing her among the least wealthy members of the newly elected Seimas.
Her official disclosures indicate she owns no real estate or other significant property, and she has reported no liabilities (loans or debts) – her declared wealth consists mostly of modest savings.
According to her 2016 candidate financial declaration, Miliūtė had no declarable assets and earned €7,713 in income during the previous year (2015), on which she paid €998 in income tax.
She is an alumna of the U.S. State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP).
She is an alumna of a public policy program under the organization Transparency International.
In March 2018, she and fellow MP Virginija Vingrienė (as the LVŽS women’s group) asked the Seimas Ethics Commission to evaluate actions of MP Mykolas Majauskas amid misconduct allegations.
In August 2021, she indicated she was considering leaving the LVŽS parliamentary faction but had not made a final decision, saying she would reflect on it before the autumn session.
In 2021, she said she felt unsafe during a protest at the Seimas and argued that attempts to talk with the aggressive crowd would not have calmed the unrest.
As of 2024, there is no record of Rūta Miliūtė receiving any state honors or official awards; none are listed in her Seimas biography or reported in media.
She became the youngest member of the Seimas when she was first elected, joining the parliament before her 26th birthday.
Her personal interests include travel, history, volunteer work, theatre, and sailing.