Vytautas Šustauskas

Vytautas Šustauskas
Member of the Seimas
In office
30 October 2000  11 November 2004
Preceded byStanislovas Buškevičius
Succeeded byRimantas Jonas Dagys
ConstituencyŠilainiai
Mayor of Kaunas City Municipality
In office
13 April 2000  30 October 2000
Preceded byHenrikas Tamulis
Succeeded byErikas Tamašauskas
Personal details
Born(1945-03-19)19 March 1945
Kražiai, Lithuanian SSR, USSR
Died21 June 2023(2023-06-21) (aged 78)
Kaunas, Lithuania
Political partyUnion of the Fighters for Lithuania
Other political
affiliations
Lithuanian Liberty League (1989-1992)
Lithuanian Liberty Union (1992–2011)

Vytautas Šustauskas (19 March 1945 – 21 June 2023) was a controversial Lithuanian politician who was leader of the Lithuanian Liberty Union and Union of the Fighters for Lithuania political parties. A self-styled "king of the beggars", he was elected Mayor of Kaunas in 2000 and became a member of the Seimas in the same year. He was known for protests against poverty, inequality, membership in the European Union and NATO, and pride parades.

Šustauskas died on 21 June 2023, at the age of 78.