Background
Valentinas Mazuronis was born in Molėtai.
Valentinas Mazuronis was born in Molėtai.
After the independence, Mazuronis worked as an architect between 1991 and 2004 under sole proprietorship "Valentino Mazuronio projektavimo biuras". Mazuronis led the Liberal Democratic parliamentary group. He was elected to the Seimas again in 2004 and was the leader of the opposition.
In December 2012 he was appointed the Minister of Environment.
He was appointed the chairman of the party in May 2015.
Upon the split in the party in 2001, Mazuronis joined the Liberal Democratic Party, becoming its chairman in 2002. In 2004, he was elected to the Seimas under the electoral list of the coalition "for the order and justice", headed by Rolandas Paksas. In 2012, Mazuronis was elected to the Seimas for a third term, under the electoral list of Order and Justice party (formerly Liberal Democratic Party).
In April 2015, Mazuronis left the Order and Justice and joined the ranks of Labour Party.
Between 1991 and 2002 Mazuronis was a member of Šiauliai city council. Until 2001, he was the member of the Lithuanian Liberal Union. In 2014 Mazuronis was elected as a member of the European Parliament, resigning from his position in the cabinet.