Artur Kosicki (born 13 September 1978 in

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) is a Polish

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and

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. Since December 2018 he is the

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Biography

In the years 1997–2004 he was a member of the

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band ''Boys'', where he dealt mainly with dancing, sometimes also singing. He graduated in law from the University of Białystok. In 2005 he became professionally involved with public administration. He worked in the district office in Białystok, then in the Department of Architecture of the Municipal Office in Białystok. He became an expert in the Housing Council of the

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, in 2016 he became an advisor to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Krzysztof Jurgiel. Then he started working at the Ministry of Development. He also became a lecturer in various postgraduate studies at the

University of Białystok The University of Bialystok is the largest university in the north-eastern region of Poland, educating in various fields of study, including humanities, social and natural sciences and mathematics. It has nine faculties, including a foreig ...

. In November 2017, he became the chairman of the

Law and Justice Law and Justice ( pl, Prawo i Sprawiedliwość , PiS) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Poland. Its chairman is Jarosław Kaczyński. It was founded in 2001 by Jarosław and Lech Kaczyński as a direct su ...

party in Białystok. In the 2018 local government elections, he was elected a councilor of the Podlaskie Voivodeship Sejmik of the 6th convocation. He was elected chairman of the PiS council club in this body. On December that year he became the

, succeeding Jerzy Leszczyński.

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Law and Justice politicians Politicians from Białystok 1978 births Living people Voivodeship marshals of Poland Podlaskie Voivodeship pl:Artur Kosicki {{LawandJustice-politician-stub