Violeta Turauskaitė

Violeta Turauskaitė was born on August 20, 1987, in Kretinga, Lithuania.

She currently resides in Kūlupėnai village in Kretinga District, Lithuania.

Her asset declarations do not include any spousal or family property, suggesting that she has no publicly recognized spouse. The declarations list only her personal assets, with no mention of a husband’s assets.

She received a Master’s degree in Engineering (Energy Technologies and Economics) from Kaunas University of Technology in 2019.

She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Kaunas University of Technology in 2010.

In 2024, she briefly worked as a project manager at Klaipėda University Hospital.

In 2023–2024, she worked as a senior project manager at the Central Project Management Agency (Centrinė projektų valdymo agentūra, CPVA).

From 2021 to 2023, she served as the Deputy Director of the Kretinga District Municipality Administration.

Violeta Turauskaitė has spent over a decade working in strategic planning and project management roles in the public sector, specifically within municipal administration and a national agency, with no record of private-sector employment or business ventures.

From 2011 to 2021, she worked at the Kretinga District Municipality Administration as a senior specialist and deputy head of the Strategic Planning and Investments Department.

She became a Member of the Seimas (Parliament) on November 14, 2024, serving in the 2024–2028 parliamentary term.

Since November 14, 2024, she has served as a Deputy Chair (Frakcijos seniūno pavaduotoja) of the Social Democratic Party’s parliamentary group in the Seimas.

She was a member of the Kretinga District Municipal Council from 2023 to 2024.

She has been a member of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party since 2015.

She is the Chair of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party’s Kretinga District branch.

She serves as a member of the Presidium of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP).

She is also a member of the LSDP Party Council.

She is a member of the Seimas Commission for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, joining on April 10, 2025.

On December 4, 2024, she became a member of the Seimas Marine Affairs Commission.

She has been a member of the Seimas Committee on State Administration and Local Government since November 19, 2024.

She was elected to the Seimas in 2024, representing the Kuršo single-member constituency (No. 37) as a candidate of the Social Democratic Party.

In 2024, she became the first female politician to be elected to the Seimas from the Kuršo single-member constituency.

She was ranked number 54 on the Social Democratic Party’s national candidate list in the 2024 Seimas elections. However, she ultimately entered the Seimas by winning a single-member district, as the LSDP list did not need to reach that rank for seats.

After becoming a Seimas member in late 2024, her base salary as an MP is roughly €4,000 per month "į rankas" (net, after taxes), a notable increase compared to her previous municipal and agency salaries.

In her 2024 parliamentary asset declaration (filed April 30, 2025), she reported a total asset value of €71,000, consisting of a €25,000 home (or part thereof), €3,000 worth of land, €16,000 in vehicles, and €27,000 in cash savings. She did not list any debts or financial liabilities.

Her 2023 asset declaration showed a notable increase in vehicle assets. By the end of 2023, she declared the same €25,000 value for her home and €3,000 for land, but her vehicles were now valued at €16,000 (up from €2,900 the previous year), and her bank savings were €29,284. This brought her total declared wealth to €73,284 for 2023.

Between 2022 and 2023, her declared net worth saw a significant jump of roughly €13,600, mainly due to acquiring a higher-value vehicle. Her vehicle assets rose from €2,900 in 2022 to €16,000 in 2023, while her cash holdings also grew. Since she reported no loans or debts, it is unclear from public data how this new vehicle was financed (presumably from savings and salary).

According to her asset declaration for the year 2022 (filed in 2023), Turauskaitė owned an apartment (butas) valued at €25,000, land valued at €3,000, vehicles valued at €2,900, and held about €28,777 in savings in banks. No liabilities were reported for that year.

As Deputy Director of the Kretinga District Municipality Administration (2021–2023), her salary can be approximated by the administration’s average gross monthly pay (~€2,227, or about €1,380 net) – in practice her senior role would likely place her above that mean. Later, as a senior project manager at the Central Project Management Agency in 2023–2024, the agency’s average salary was around €3,533 gross per month, indicating a substantially higher income level during her tenure there.

From 2020 to 2022, she served on the board of the Kretinga District Rural Development Association.

In April 2024, as a Kretinga District Council member, she was asked by the municipality to retract statements she made in a local newspaper that were deemed false and damaging to the institution’s reputation.

On May 20, 2025, she voted in favor of proposed amendments to the Real Estate Tax law, although the measure ultimately failed to pass.

She serves as the Chair of the Seimas Temporary Group of Samogitians (Laikinoji Žemaičių grupė) since December 5, 2024.

She also chairs the Seimas Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie (Frankofonijos Parlamentinė Asamblėja) since December 5, 2024.

During her swearing-in on November 14, 2024, she read the parliamentary oath in the Samogitian dialect.