Viktoras Pranckietis

Viktoras Pranckietis was born on 26 July 1958 in Ruteliai Village, Kelmė District, Lithuania.

He is fluent in English, Polish, and Russian.

He is married to Irena and has three children: a son (Vaidotas) and two daughters (Viktorija and Monika).

He obtained a Doctor of Biomedical Sciences (PhD) degree in 1998.

He earned a Master’s degree in agronomy from the Lithuanian Academy of Agriculture in 1982.

He was awarded the academic title of Professor at Aleksandras Stulginskis University (the agricultural academy) in 2016.

From 2008 to 2016, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Agronomy at the Lithuanian Academy of Agriculture (now part of Vytautas Magnus University).

Between 1999 and 2015, Pranckietis was officially registered as a farmer (ūkininkas), maintaining a private agricultural farm in addition to his academic duties.

Pranckietis spent his career in academia, serving at the Lithuanian Academy of Agriculture (later Aleksandras Stulginskis University) from the 1980s until 2016 in roles including lecturer, department head, and dean.

Before completing his studies, Pranckietis worked as an orchard agronomist at the Tytuvėnai horticultural farm in 1976–1977.

He has no record of involvement in any private companies or corporate boards – throughout his career outside politics he worked in academia and ran his family farm, with no other business ventures noted.

He officially joined the Liberal Movement party as a member on 6 November 2020, having previously left the LVŽS in 2019.

He formally became a member of the Liberal Movement (Liberalų sąjūdis) in 2020 after leaving the LVŽS.

He left the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union in 2019 amid a dispute with the party’s leader, becoming politically unaffiliated while remaining Speaker.

He served as the Speaker of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania from November 2016 until November 2020.

As Speaker, he was an ex officio member of the Board of the Seimas and the Conference of Chairs during the 2016–2020 term.

Pranckietis was first elected to the Seimas (national parliament) in 2016 as a candidate of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS).

He served as a member of the Kaunas District Municipal Council from 2015 to 2016.

He was a leading member of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union from 2014 to 2019, serving on its board and as a Deputy Chairperson of the party.

As of the 2024–2028 term, Pranckietis is a member of the Seimas Committee on Rural Affairs (beginning November 2024).

During the 2020–2024 term, he served as Chairman of the Seimas Committee on Rural Affairs.

He was also a member of the Seimas Committee for the Future from 2020 to 2024.

He was re-elected to the Seimas in 2024 on the Liberal Movement’s national party list.

In March 2023, Pranckietis stood as the Liberal Movement’s candidate for Kaunas District Mayor, where he finished third with roughly 11% of the vote.

In early 2023, Pranckietis announced his candidacy for Kaunas District Mayor (and council member) in the municipal elections, leading the Liberal Movement’s list in that district.

In the October 2020 parliamentary elections, he narrowly defeated Social Democratic candidate Raminta Popovienė to win the Raudondvaris single-member constituency as a Liberal Movement candidate.

In the October 2020 parliamentary election runoff in Raudondvaris, now representing the Liberal Movement, Pranckietis prevailed over Raminta Popovienė by a very slim margin – roughly 1.3 percentage points.

In the 2020 Seimas elections, the Liberal Movement placed Viktoras Pranckietis in the third position on its national party list of candidates.

In the 2016 Seimas elections, Pranckietis ran in the Raudondvaris single-member constituency as an LVŽS candidate and won in the runoff with 54.73% of the vote, defeating Social Democrat Raminta Popovienė.

In 2012, Pranckietis ran for a seat in the Seimas as a candidate of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, but he was not elected.

As of 2022, Pranckietis’s annual income was about €57,366 (according to his official financial disclosure for that year).

His asset declaration for 2022 showed total assets of approximately €201,500 in value (personal property, savings, etc., excluding his spouse’s holdings).

The Pranckietis family’s wealth jumped by about 20% in a single year: their declared assets for 2018 were roughly €55,000 higher than the previous year, a gain difficult to attribute solely to official income sources.

Between 2017 and 2018, the combined net worth of Pranckietis and his wife grew from around €275,000 to €329,800, an increase of €54,700 in one year (as per their annual asset declarations).

The Speaker of the Seimas receives one of the highest public salaries in Lithuania – around €5,300 net per month as of 2026 (about €70,000 per year gross, estimated). During Pranckietis’s term as Speaker (2016–2020), his salary would have been in a similar range.

Pranckietis’s wife Irena owns nearly 38 hectares of agricultural land (in Rokiškis district), which since late 2016 has been leased to an Agrokoncernas-affiliated company for approximately €5,000 per year.

As of mid-2017, Seimas Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis declared about €241,000 worth of assets (including ~€93,300 in buildings, ~€100,800 in land, a car valued at €600, and ~€46,400 in savings). When entering the Seimas in 2016, he had declared around €198,800 in assets (and €54,200 in cash).

According to his 2015 financial disclosure, Pranckietis received about €25,400 in total income for that year (before entering parliament).

He is a member of the Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees.

Neither Pranckietis nor his wife has held any positions in private companies – he reported no corporate directorships or shareholdings in any of his disclosures, focusing solely on academia, farming, and public office.

In July 2025, the Seimas Ethics and Procedures Commission launched an inquiry into Pranckietis for a possible conflict of interest, after it emerged he had received financial support from the fur farming industry before the elections while sponsoring legislation favoring that sector.

In February 2025, the Seimas Ethics and Procedures Commission ruled that Pranckietis violated conflict-of-interest rules by advocating legislation favoring fur farmers shortly after receiving the donation, and it recommended that he recuse himself from further decisions on the fur farming ban.

In late 2024, it came to light that Pranckietis’s re-election campaign had received financial support from the fur farming industry (including a €2,000 donation from fur breeders’ association head Česlovas Tallat-Kelpša), prompting allegations of a conflict of interest.

In early 2021, Lithuania’s election commission (VRK) examined a complaint that Pranckietis misled voters by using the title "professor" in campaign materials. The VRK found that Pranckietis had legitimately received the professorship in 2016 and thus had the right to use the title, and it therefore dismissed the complaint.

In mid-2019, LVŽS party leader Ramūnas Karbauskis demanded that Pranckietis step down as Speaker of the Seimas, as part of a new ruling coalition agreement, but Pranckietis refused.

Karbauskis even threatened to expel Pranckietis from the Farmers and Greens Union for defying the party’s decisions during the 2019 conflict.

In December 2017, media revealed that a company in Ramūnas Karbauskis’ Agrokoncernas group (UAB Biomasės centras) had been renting about 38 hectares of land owned by Pranckietis’s wife since November 2016 (two days after he became Speaker), paying around €5,000 per year – a contract Pranckietis had failed to declare for over a year.

In 2019, Pranckietis was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for his contributions to Poland–Lithuania relations.

He has authored scientific books and textbooks in agronomy and has developed new varieties of plants as part of his scientific work.