Andrzej Szewiński (born 20 February 1970 in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

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) is a former professional

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player (198 cm,

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), sport activist and

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. He is the son of the

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Career as sportsmen

From 1989/90 to 2004/05 (altogether 16 seasons) he played for

AZS Częstochowa KS AZS Częstochowa SSA was a Polish professional men's volleyball club based in Częstochowa, founded in 1945 as a university team (AZS). The club competed in the Polish PlusLiga from to 1979 to 2017. Six–time Polish Champion, two–time Pol ...

, Bipop Brescia,

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Beşiktaş JK Beşiktaş () is a district and municipality of Istanbul, Turkey, located on the European shore of the Bosphorus strait. It is bordered on the north by Sarıyer and Şişli, on the west by Kağıthane and Şişli, on the south by Beyoğlu, and ...

and

Galatasaray S.K. Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (, ''Galatasaray Sports Club'') is a Turkish sports club based on the European side of the city of Istanbul in Turkey. Most notable for its association football department, the club also consists of various other de ...

Political activity

From 2006 to 2007 he was a councilor of the

Silesian Regional Assembly The Silesian Voivodeship Sejmik ( pl, Sejmik Województwa Śląskiego) is the regional legislature of the Voivodeship of Silesia in Poland. It is a unicameral parliamentary body consisting of forty-five councillors elected for a five-year term. T ...

from PO. In the parliamentary election in 2007 he was elected to a

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Częstochowa Częstochowa ( , ; german: Tschenstochau, Czenstochau; la, Czanstochova) is a city in southern Poland on the Warta River with 214,342 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship (admin ...

district, receiving 81,777 votes. Later he joined Civic Platform. In the parliamentary election in 2011, he won 37,471 votes and again won a seat to Senate from Częstochowa district. In 2014, he ran for the presidency of Częstochowa, taking 4th place out of 7 candidates. In 2015 he did not receive a senatorial reelection, because

Artur Warzocha Artur Ryszard Warzocha (born 11 November 1969, in Piotrków Trybunalski) is a Polish politician, local official, first deputy voivode of Silesia (2006–2007), Senator of the Senate of the Republic of Poland since 2015. Biography He graduate ...

defeated him. On 30 December 2015 he replaced Krzysztof Łoziński as the vice-president of Częstochowa. In 2018 he ran unsuccessfully to the regional assembly. In the parliamentary election in 2019 he was elected to

Sejm The Sejm (English: , Polish: ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (Polish: ''Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''), is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland. The Sejm has been the highest governing body of t ...

district.

References

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Biography on Polish parliament website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Szewinski, Andrzej 1970 births Living people Polish people of Jewish descent Polish people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent Polish men's volleyball players Volleyball players from Warsaw Members of the Senate of Poland 2007–2011 Members of the Senate of Poland 2011–2015 Members of the Polish Sejm 2019–2023 Jan Długosz University alumni Jewish Polish politicians Galatasaray S.K. (men's volleyball) players Members of the Polish Sejm 2023–2027