"I apologise for being wrong and misleading during the campaign when I said that we would not form a coalition with the Nemunas Dawn. Mistakes have consequences. I am resigning from the party and resigning as director of the Solidarity Institute (a think tank founded by the LSDP – ELTA)," Gudžinskas said in a post on Facebook on Friday.
He was a LSDP member for seven years.
"I have devoted all my efforts to its renewal – to draw a programme that reflects the essence of Western social democracy and the challenges of the modern world. I was driven by an idea. I neither sought nor demanded any political privileges or positions for myself. Today, I feel I have been worn out. I have sacrificed as much of myself as I had," the MP said.
In October 2024, the Social Democrat stood for election to the Seimas in Antakalnis single-member constituency, finishing third in the race.