Piotrków Trybunalski
Piotrków Trybunalski (; also known by #Etymology, alternative names), often simplified to Piotrków, is a city in central Poland with 71,252 inhabitants (2021). It is the second-largest city situated in the Łódź Voivodeship. Previously, it wa ...
official
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, first deputy voivode of
Silesia
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(2006–2007),
Senator
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of the
Senate of the Republic of Poland
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since 2015.
Biography
He graduated from the Faculty of Pedagogy of the Pedagogical University in Częstochowa, and completed post-graduate studies at the
Jan Długosz University
The Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa Uniwersytet Humanistyczno-Przyrodniczy im. Jana Długoszais a public university located in Częstochowa, in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland. Founded in 1971 as a teacher training college, it was tran ...
.
In 1998 and in 2002 he was elected to a Częstochowa City Council. In 2009, without success, he ran for the
European Parliament
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. In 2010, he was elected a councilor of the
Silesian Regional Assembly
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of the 4th term.
He joined
Law and Justice
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It was founded in 2001 by Jarosław and Lech Kaczyński as a direct su ...
. In 2011, he applied unsuccessfully for the
Senate
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's mandate. In 2014, he was a candidate of Law and Justice in the elections for the office of President of
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 ...
, but he was not elected to this seat. In the parliamentary election in 2015, he was once again from the PiS party to the Senate from the district of Częstochowa, this time obtaining the mandate of a senator.
In 2018 he was once again the candidate of his party for the presidency of Częstochowa in the
local elections
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, but he did not get a choice for this function.
In 2019 he lost the mandate of a senator in the district of Częstochowa.