Born: Saltinenuose, Prienu district

Member of the Lithuanian Parliament Juozas Palionis on Monday afternoon died in Prienai district as hic car collided with a lorry. Seimas Speaker Irena Degutiene on behalf of the Seimas and on her own behalf offered her heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of the late Palionis, as well as to his fellow members of the Social Democrate Party of Lithuania.

"We knew the late as a responsible, hard-working and constructive person who had worked 11 years in the Seimas, almost the entire 3 terms of office since 2000. Working in different committees and heading them in his previous terms of office, assuming the post of the deputy chairman of the Seimas' Committee on Budget and Finance at present, the late Palionis would manage to talk his fellows MPs into taking into consideration all opinions and he would be able to solve even the most complicated problems," Degutiene says in her condolences. "The death of Juozas Palionis is a great loss to his native land of Prienai which he dearly loved and always cared for the locals," Degutiene says.

Buried in Nemajunai rural cemetery. 

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