Algirdas Sysas
Lietuvos socialdemokratų partijos frakcija
Oficialus Seimo profilis ↗Algirdas Sysas yra Lietuvos politikas, Lietuvos socialdemokratų partijos narys, ilgametis Lietuvos Seimo narys, parlamentarės aštuonias kadencijas. Jis aktyviai užsiima socialine gerove ir darbo santykių klausimais, dirbo įvairiose profesinėse sąjungose ir buvo jų vadovas. Taip pat vadovavo įvairiems Seimo komitetams ir užsienio delegacijoms.
Algirdas Sysas was born on 5 March 1954 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
He is married and has two adult children and four grandchildren.
He earned a diploma in Economics from Vilnius State University (now Vilnius University) in 1982.
He obtained a diploma in Radio Electronics from Vilnius Polytechnic College in 1973.
He completed his primary and secondary education in Vilnius, attending Naujoji Vilnia and Antanas Vienuolis Secondary Schools from 1961 to 1969.
He served as President of the Lithuanian Trade Union Confederation from 2002 until 2005.
From 1993 to 2002, he was President of the Lithuanian Association of Trade Unions.
He served as the leader of the Lithuanian Metalworkers’ Trade Union from 1991 to 1996.
In 1991, he founded the Lithuanian Metalworkers’ Trade Union.
In 1990, Sysas organized and chaired “Unification,” an independent trade union center, and later oversaw its merger with another union center to establish the Lithuanian Trade Union Confederation.
He was the trade union leader at the Vilma electronics factory from 1987 to 1991.
From 1976 to 1987, he worked at the "Vilma" electronics factory in Vilnius, holding positions from workshop bureau chief to deputy sales manager.
From 1973 to 1976, he served in the Soviet Navy as part of his compulsory military service.
In 1973, he worked as a staff member at the Vilnius Research Institute of Radio Measuring Devices.
He served as the head of the LSDP’s parliamentary faction from November 2020 to November 2021.
In 2019, he was a candidate for the chairmanship of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party.
He has served as Deputy Head of the LSDP’s parliamentary faction in the Seimas (as of 2019).
He was the head of the LSDP’s election campaign headquarters for the 2016 parliamentary elections.
He served as a Deputy Speaker of the Seimas during the 2012–2016 parliamentary term.
He was a vice-chairman of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party from 2009 to 2017.
Algirdas Sysas has been a member of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) since 2005.
He later served again on the Vilnius City Municipal Council in 2000–2001.
He was first elected to the Seimas in 1996 and has served as a Member of Parliament for eight consecutive terms, up to the 2024–2028 legislature.
He did not formally belong to any political party until joining the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party in 2005, despite being part of its Seimas faction since 1996.
Before entering national politics, he was a member of the Vilnius City Municipal Council from 1995 to 1996.
Since 5 December 2024, he has served as chairman of the Seimas interparliamentary relations group with the Polish Sejm and Senate.
As of 21 November 2024, he is the Chair of the Seimas Committee on Budget and Finance.
He briefly chaired the Seimas Committee on Social Affairs and Labour again in 2016–2017.
He was the head of the Seimas interparliamentary group with the Republic of South Africa from 2014 to 2016.
He headed the Lithuanian Seimas delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly during the 2012–2016 term.
He chaired the Seimas interparliamentary relations group with Romania from 2011 to 2020.
He served on the Seimas Commission for Prevention of Drug and Alcohol Addiction in multiple terms (including 2008–2012 and 2012–2016).
He was a member of the Seimas Committee on European Affairs during the 2004–2008 and 2008–2012 parliamentary terms.
He was the Chair of the Seimas Committee on Social Affairs and Labour during the 2004–2008 term.
During his first term (1996–2000), he served as Deputy Chair of the Seimas Committee on Social Affairs and Labour.
In the 2024 Seimas elections, Algirdas Sysas ran in the single-member Verkiai constituency (Vilnius) and placed second with 40.58% of the vote, losing to TS-LKD candidate Dainius Kreivys who won outright in the first round.
In the 2012 parliamentary elections, Sysas was listed 8th on the LSDP’s national candidate list but ultimately ranked 6th after receiving 21,235 preferential votes from the party’s voters.
In each parliamentary election since 1996, he was nominated by the LSDP and won a seat via the party’s nationwide list.
In the 1996 Seimas elections, he won his first parliamentary seat as a non-party candidate on the LSDP’s nationwide list, where the Social Democrats obtained 9 seats in total.
In the 1995 municipal elections, Sysas secured a seat on the Vilnius City Council as a non-party trade union candidate on the Social Democratic Party’s list.
Effective from the 2024–2028 Seimas term, the monthly salary of a Seimas committee chair was set to increase from about €4,036 (gross) to about €7,142 (gross) – roughly €4,321 after taxes.
As of 2023, a rank-and-file Seimas member’s monthly salary was approximately €3,433.80 (gross), or about €2,077 after taxes.
Overall, the Sysas family’s declared net worth grew from approximately €337,218 in 2020 to €385,413 in 2023.
According to his official declarations, Algirdas Sysas’s real estate holdings (e.g., a house valued around €75,800) remained the same from 2019 to 2023, while his liquid assets grew – for instance, his cash savings increased from about €93,706 in 2019 to €122,610 by 2023, and he acquired ~€20,214 in government bonds.
Sysas’s wife, Irena Džiužaitė (an employee of the State Social Insurance Fund Board), likewise saw her declared assets grow: in 2019 she reported about €42,635 in savings and €1,222 in stocks, rising to ~€50,628 in cash by 2022 with stock holdings of ~€1,456, and by 2023 she also held ~€7,075 in government bonds.
As Deputy Speaker of the Seimas from 2012 to 2016, Sysas would have earned roughly 25–30% more than a regular Seimas member – about €4,300 per month (gross, estimated).
He was a member of the Tripartite Council of the Republic of Lithuania from 1999 to 2001.
He was President of the Lithuanian Orienteering Federation from 1996 to 2005.
He sat on the State Social Insurance Fund Board (Sodra) from 1993 to 2004.
In 2004, he was awarded the Sports Honorary Commander’s Badge by the Department of Physical Education and Sports.
He also received the Olympic Star award from the Lithuanian National Olympic Committee in 2004.
He won the World Parliamentarians Half Marathon in 2003 and 2004, and placed third in the same competition in 2006 and 2008.
He speaks English, Russian, and Polish.
His main areas of political work are social welfare and labour relations.
He is a multiple-time Lithuanian veterans orienteering champion and has competed in several World Masters Orienteering Championships (in countries such as Czechia, Portugal, and Sweden).