Adrian Zandberg

Adrian Tadeusz Zandberg (born 4 December 1979 in Aalborg) is a Polish historian and computer programmer, doctor of humanities and left-wing politician, serving as one of the co-leaders of Razem (''Together'').Biography – Polityka – 21 October 2015
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Life

His parents moved in 1967 from Poland to Denmark, where Zandberg was born in 1979. In 1985 his family moved back to Poland. After studying history at Warsaw University with Anna Żarnowska, he received his doctorate for his dissertation about British and German left-wing social democratic movements. He also studied computer science at a Polish-Japanese computing academy.

Political career

As a student he devoted himself to politics. On 14 November 2001, he published an article in the "Gazeta Wyborcza" daily newspaper written together with civil rights activist Jacek Kuroń on the topic of social justice in Poland.

He was elected chairman of the youth wing (''Forum Młodych'') of the Labour United party (''Unia Pracy''), was a member of the executive of this party and founded the Federation of Young Socialists (''Młodzi Socjaliści'').

Partia Razem

In May 2015, he became one of the founders of Partia Razem, a new political party, and was elected to the nine-member Board, together with Jakub Baran, Aleksandra Cacha, Alicja Czubek, Maciej Konieczny, Magdalena Malińska, Mateusz Mirys, Katarzyna Paprota, and Marcelina Zawisza.

Zandberg was placed on the first place on Razem's Warsaw candidate list of the Sejm elections in October 2015. As a Razem party representative during a television debate before the 2015 parliamentary elections, held in Poland on 25 October he represented the smallest of the eight parties. Among other positions, he was the only one of the eight panelists who pleaded for an unconditional acceptance of Syrian war refugees in Poland. Following the debate, some of the media declared him the winner of this discussion, and his appearance at the debate generated more media interest in him and his party in the following days. Zandberg received personally 49,711 votes, but his party won only 3.62 percent of votes, so did not gain any seats in the Sejm.

While some commentators claimed that the increase in popularity of Razem was at the expense of the United Left coalition (among others consisting of SLD, PPS, Greens and Twój Ruch), which also did not win any seats, resulting in neither left-wing party being represented in the new parliament, others, including United Left leader Barbara Nowacka, disagreed with that assessment, pointing out that Razem attracted mostly new electorate, and few of its voters had voted for SLD or Twój Ruch in previous elections and that the decrease in popularity of United Left's member parties had been a steady process over the years due to past errors.

In 2022, he became one of the co-leaders of Left Together.

Private life

He is married and has two children. Before entering politics, he worked professionally as a computer programmer.

Electoral history

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References

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University of Warsaw alumni
21st-century Polish historians
Polish male non-fiction writers
Polish computer programmers
1979 births
Living people
Left Together politicians
Members of the Polish Sejm 2019–2023
People from Aalborg