Question: Who was the founder of the party of which Vydas Gedvilas is a member?

Context articles: Democratic Jihad Party
People's Movement (Lebanon)
Erel Margalit
Labour Party (Lithuania)
Shripad Amrit Dange
Govinda Raj Joshi
Vydas Gedvilas
Gustavo Machado Morales
Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
Lesotho People's Congress

The Democratic Jihad Party was an Egyptian political party made up of former members of the group Egyptian Islamic Jihad; it was also made up of members of other "former jihadist groups".
 The party is also known as the Islamic Democratic Jihad Party, as well as the Islamist Jihadi Party.
 A member of the party has stated that the party has "failed".
 The party has stated that it supported Ahmed Shafiq in the 2012 presidential election; Sabra Ibrahim, a deputy founder in the party, stated that the party gave its support to Shafiq in order to prevent the establishment of a theocratic state ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood.
 The party condemned the attack in August 2012 that killed 16 soldiers, saying that it was committed by “sinful terrorist[s].”
 Yasser Saad is now a member of an umbrella coalition of former jihadis, ex-members of the Muslim Brotherhood and ex-al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya members called the Moderate Front.
The People's Movement of Lebanon (PML, Arabic: حركة الشعب‎ ‎ "Harakat Al-Shaeb", Arabic acronym HSB) is a democratic leftist political party with no seats in the Lebanese Parliament.
 The party's founder, Najah Wakim, won parliamentary representation in 1972, but boycotted elections in 2000 and failed to win afterward, leaving the party with no representation in government.
 The party was founded in 2000 and has recently elected a new leader, Ibrahim al-Halabi.
 It is a member of the March 8 Alliance governmentary coalition, and pushes democratic ideals while being popular with the younger, student generation, especially those at the American University of Beirut.
 The People's Movement opposes the economic policies of Rafik Hariri and his Future Movement and adopts radical alter-globalist, anti-American and anti-Israeli positions.
 The Movement is now part of the Lebanese opposition against the March 14 Alliance and is allied to Hezbollah, the Free Patriotic Movement, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, the Lebanese Communist Party, the Marada Movement and several other smaller parties.
 The party's main ideas deal with the reformation of the Lebanese political system and strengthened relations between Arab countries.
Erel Margalit (Hebrew: אראל מרגלית‎ ‎ ; born 1 January 1961) is an Israeli politician and a high-tech and social entrepreneur.
 He is currently a Member of the Knesset on behalf of the Labor Party.
 Previously, he was the founder and managing partner of the Jerusalem-based venture capital firm Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP).
 In 2005, " Forbes " international business magazine selected Margalit as the top-ranking non-American venture capitalist on its prestigious "Midas (The Golden Touch) List.”
 In 2010, "The Marker Magazine" named him the best venture capitalist in Israel.
 Margalit is a founder of the Avoda Now movement in 2011 which aimed to rehabilitate the Labour Party following the split by Ehud Barak and the creation of HaAtzma'ut Party.
 In 2013, Margalit was elected to the 19th Knesset as a representative of the Labor party.
The Labour Party (Lithuanian: "Darbo Partija" , DP) is a centre-left populist political party in Lithuania.
 The party was founded in 2003 by the Russian-born millionaire businessman Viktor Uspaskich.
Shripad Amrit Dange (10 October 1899 – 22 May 1991) was a founding member of the Communist Party of India (CPI) and a stalwart of Indian trade union movement.
 During the British Raj, Dange was arrested by the British authorities for communist and trade union activities and was jailed for an overall period of 13 years.
 After India's Independence, a series of events like Sino-Soviet split, Sino-Indian war, and the revelation that while in jail, Dange had written letters to the British Government, offering them cooperation, led to a split in the Communist Party of India, in 1964.
 The breakaway Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) emerged stronger both in terms of membership and their performance in the Indian Elections.
 Dange, who remained the Chairman of the CPI till 1978, was removed in that year because the majority of party workers were against Dange's political line of supporting Indian National Congress, and Indira Gandhi, the then Congress Prime Minister.
 He was expelled from the CPI in 1981.
 He joined the All India Communist Party (AICP), and later, United Communist Party of India.
 Towards the end, Dange got increasingly marginalised in the Indian Communist movement.
 He was also a well-known writer and was the founder of "Socialist" the first socialist weekly in India.
 Dange played an important role in the formation of Maharashtra state.
Govinda Raj Joshi is a Nepalese politician.
 Govinda Raj Joshi was born in 1949 at Khalte village in Rupakot Village Development Committee of Tanahun district, Nepal, He stepped into the field of politics in 1964 when he had just begun his student life.
 Joshi who regards late BP Koirala as his ideal was the president of free student union (College of Education) and Gandaki Student Council in 1967.
 Joshi was a member of Tarun Dal, the youth wing of Nepali Congress Party, in the year 1969 in Tanahun district, He formed the Nepali Congress Tanahun district committee and was the secretary of Nepali Congress, Tanahun, in 2033,He was the secretary of multiparty campaign committee of Nepali Congress Party in 1979, He was the vice- president of Nepali Congress Party, Tanahun district and eventually made it to the central committee member of the party in the year 1997.
 Likewise, Mr. Joshi was elected as central committee member of the party in the year 2000.
 Twice a central committee member; Mr. Joshi has already held the post of a joint general secretary of the party.
 He actively worked as a coordinator while the construction of the Nepali Congress Party Building was underway at Sanepa, Lalitpur.
 Joshi who started his career as a teacher was also the founder of Tribhuwan High School, Tanahu district .
 He was the founder head master of the school and taught at the very school for six years as a volunteer and spent his personal money to establish high school in his own village .
 Later on he was the head master of Shiva Secondary School Rising and also the founder of Adikabi Bhanubhakta Multiple College, Tanahun.
 He taught at the very college for two years as a volunteer.
Vydas Gedvilas (born 17 July 1959 in the village of Užgiriai, Kelmė district, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Lithuanian basketball coach and politician, former Speaker of the Seimas, member of the Labour Party.
Gustavo Machado Morales (19 July 1898 – 17 July 1983) was a Venezuelan politician and journalist, editor of the Communist Party of Venezuela's newspaper from 1948 to 1983 (with interruptions for exile and imprisonment) and President of the party from 1971 to 1983.
 As a leading Communist, he spent a substantial part of his life in exile or in prison.
 He was a founder member of the Venezuelan Revolutionary Party in February 1927, a forerunner of the Communist Party of Venezuela (founded in 1931).
 He was a member of the Generation of 1928 - activists opposing the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez.
 During the 1945-8 democratic period he was a member of the Constituent Assembly and a candidate in the 1947 presidential election for the Communist Party.
 He was elected to the Venezuelan Chamber of Deputies four times, serving there for fifteen years.
Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (24 May 1852 – 20 March 1936) was a Scottish politician, writer, journalist and adventurer.
 He was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP); the first ever socialist member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; a founder, and the first president, of the Scottish Labour Party; a founder of the National Party of Scotland in 1928; and the first president of the Scottish National Party in 1934.
The Lesotho People's Congress is a political party in Lesotho.
 It was formed as a split from the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) by that party's Lesiba faction after Deputy Prime Minister Kelebone Maope resigned from the government in September 2001, and it was registered on October 8, 2001.
 Maope became the leader of the LPC; another leading member of the LCD, Shakhane Mokhehle, also became a leading member of the LPC.
 It gained 27 seats in the National Assembly through defections from the LCD.
 The new party closely identified itself with former prime minister Ntsu Mokhehle (brother of Shakhane Mokhehle), the founder of the LCD, and used an image of his head as its party symbol.
 The LCD sought to prevent the LPC from using his head as its symbol, but on December 6 the High Court ruled in favor of the LPC.
 In the parliamentary election for the National Assembly held on 25 May 2002, the party won 5.8% of popular votes and 5 out of 120 seats.
 Maope was the only LPC candidate to win a constituency, but the party won four other seats through proportional representation.
 Maope and Shakhane Mokhehle did not include themselves on the party's list of candidates for proportional representation, expecting to win constituencies, but Mokhehle lost his constituency by nine votes, and therefore did not get a seat in the National Assembly.