Artur Jarosław Zasada, born 5 June 1969 in

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, is a politician, he is part of the local government of Zielona Gora and a

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. He is a member of

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and the

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group, having been elected for

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Biography

A lawyer by the profession, graduated from the

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. He was employed in PP and

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. Later he worked as a manager for international relations and marketing specialist in a transport company, then he became branch director of the Totalizator Sportowy. At the end of the 80s he belonged to the opposition Movement for Independent Youth. In the early 90s worked in the police force. Since 1993 he was active in the National Union of Christian and in the years 2001–2002 in the Covenant Right. With them he joined 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, but at the turn of 2003 and 2004 he decided to occur in the party, then he joined the

. In 2006, elected councilor from

list in

Zielona Góra Zielona Góra is the largest city in Lubusz Voivodeship, located in western Poland, with 140,403 inhabitants (2021). Zielona Góra has a favourable geographical position, being close to the Polish-German border and on several international road ...

. In the city council he was a chairman of the Committee on Budget and Finance and the club of

councilors. In 2008 he became a member of the Regional Council of

. In

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he was elected and became MEP, achieving second place as a candidate from the list of

Gorzów County and receiving 25,875 votes. On 30 August 2013 he decided to suspend for three months his membership in the

as a gesture of solidarity with two members of the party in

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(

Jarosław Gowin Jarosław Adam Gowin (born 4 December 1961) is a Polish conservative politician and editor. Gowin served as Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Prime Minister Donald Tusk between 2011 and 2013, and as Minister of Science and Higher Education i ...

and Jacek Żalek) who were punished for breaking party group discipline. On 15 November 2013 he announced the withdrawal from the structures of the

and started to being involved in the ”Godzina dla Polski” movement, created by Jarosław Gowin after his departure from PO. In the European Parliament he sits on the Committee on Transport and Tourism.

References

Bibliography

Profile on the European Parliament website

Biography note on the europarlament.pap.pl

External links

Artur Zasada – private website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Zasada, Artur 1969 births Living people People from Zielona Góra MEPs for Poland 2009–2014 Civic Platform politicians Law and Justice MEPs European Conservatives and Reformists MEPs Poland Together MEPs