Ieva Kačinskaitė-Urbonienė

She and her husband Simonas Urbonas have three children. Their two elder children are a daughter, Anabelė, and a son, Viesulas; their youngest, another daughter, was born in 2017.

She was the youngest-ever member of the Vilnius City Municipal Council, joining at age 20.

Ieva Kačinskaitė-Urbonienė was born on 25 August 1990 in Kėdainiai, Lithuania.

She speaks English and Russian.

She is married to a man named Simonas and has three children.

In 2015, she obtained a diploma in economics from Vilnius University.

In 2013, she earned a diploma in political science from Vilnius University.

In 2009, she graduated from the Šviesioji Gymnasium (secondary school) in Kėdainiai.

In November 2025, she was registered as the director of a newly established small partnership, MB "Apiori", a company specializing in legal services.

In November 2025, she began working as an adviser to Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė, focusing on education issues.

In early 2024, she announced that she would not continue her career in politics after concluding her parliamentary term.

As a Member of the Seimas from 2020 to 2024, she received a statutory salary; by 2024, an ordinary Seimas member’s take-home monthly pay was roughly €4,000.

From 2019 to 2020, she was the head of the small partnership MB "Uostas".

From 2015 to 2017, she worked as an assistant in the European Parliament.

From late 2015, she worked as an assistant to Member of the European Parliament Valentinas Mazuronis.

In 2014–2015, she served as an adviser to Loreta Graužinienė, who was then the Speaker of the Seimas.

From 2012 to 2014, she was an accredited assistant in the European Parliament.

In 2007, she worked as an assistant to Labour politician Viktoras Fiodorovas in Kėdainiai.

Since resigning from the Labour Party in 2024, she has not joined any other political party. She remains unaffiliated, serving only as a non-partisan adviser to the Prime Minister and not as a member of the "Demokratų sąjunga 'Vardan Lietuvos'".

After leaving her party’s group, she sat as a non-attached member of the Seimas from June 18, 2024 until the end of her term in November 2024.

She chose to remain in the Labour Party’s Seimas faction until the end of her term, noting that if she left earlier the faction – which had only seven members (including one imprisoned) – would have ceased to exist.

In March 2024, she and several veteran members resigned from the Labour Party, following a new pre-trial investigation involving former party leader Viktor Uspaskich.

She was a rank-and-file member of the Labour Party’s political group in the Seimas from July 2021 to June 2024.

On May 13, 2021, she registered a draft resolution entitled "On Strengthening the Traditional Family" (Lithuanian: "Dėl tradicinės šeimos stiprinimo") on behalf of the Labour Party, after the ruling majority removed a resolution related to the "Great Family Defense March 2021" from the agenda.

She served as a Member of the Seimas (Parliament of Lithuania) from November 13, 2020 until November 14, 2024.

She served as Deputy Chair of the Labour Party’s parliamentary group in the Seimas from November 2020 until July 2021.

She again served as a member of the Vilnius City Municipal Council from 2019 until 2020.

She was the Executive Secretary and Deputy Chairperson of the Labour Party in 2015–2016.

She was a member of the Vilnius City Municipal Council during 2011–2015.

She joined the Labour Party in 2010.

From 2009 to 2012, she headed the Labour Party’s youth organization "Darbas".

She began her political involvement as a teenager in 2005, joining the Labour Party’s youth organisation "Darbas" and by 2006 was leading its Kėdainiai chapter while also serving as president of the Kėdainiai Šviesioji Gymnasium student council.

She was appointed Deputy Chair of the Seimas Committee on Education and Science on December 23, 2022, serving in that role until November 2024.

Throughout 2020–2024, she served as a member of the Seimas Commission for Suicide and Violence Prevention.

She was a member of the Seimas Committee for the Future from December 17, 2020 to April 28, 2021.

She served as a member of the Seimas Committee on Education and Science from November 19, 2020 until December 22, 2022.

She did not participate as a candidate in the 2024 parliamentary elections.

In March 2023, she was the Labour Party’s candidate for Mayor of Vilnius in the municipal elections.

In the October 2020 Seimas elections, the Labour Party rebounded, winning 9.43% of the vote and securing 10 parliamentary mandates (9 via the national list and 1 in a single-member constituency), which allowed her to enter the Seimas.

She was ranked 5th on the Labour Party’s national candidate list in the 2020 parliamentary elections and remained 5th after preferential votes were counted, securing one of the party’s nine list-based Seimas seats.

In the same 2020 election, she also ran in the single-member Naujamiesčio–Naujininkų constituency in Vilnius, but was not elected from that district.

In October 2020, she was elected to the Seimas as a Labour Party candidate on the party’s nationwide list.

In the 2016 parliamentary elections, the Labour Party garnered only 4.69% of the national vote and failed to secure any seats, meaning she did not enter the Seimas at that time.

She was a Labour Party candidate in the 2014 elections to the European Parliament (for the 2014–2019 term), though she did not win a seat.

Her official asset and income declarations have not indicated any extraordinary personal wealth. A large donation she made in 2014 drew scrutiny, but tax authorities reviewed her financial declarations and found no irregularities.

She is an active member of the Naujamiesčio community in Vilnius and the parents’ association "Supertėvai", advocating for youth and parents’ interests.

Her husband’s media company “Legal Guns” was later declared bankrupt and officially liquidated.

In early 2025, she publicly revealed that she had experienced sexual harassment in the Seimas by an older colleague (whose identity she did not disclose).

She stated that the Labour Party’s decision to proceed with the 2024 European Parliament elections while a legal investigation was still ongoing was "the last straw" that led to her resignation from the party.

In 2014, she donated 40,000 Lithuanian litas to the Labour Party and another 4,000 litas to Artūras Paulauskas’s presidential campaign fund, an unusually large contribution that prompted public scrutiny; the State Tax Inspectorate reviewed her finances and found no irregularities.

During her tenure as a Vilnius City Council member, she was involved in an incident where an important vote was recorded in her name despite her absence from the chamber; a subsequent inquiry found it was a technical error and that she had committed no wrongdoing.