
Dariusz Joński (born 12 January 1979 in
Łódź
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) is a Polish
politician
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and local government official who has been serving as a member of the Sejm since 2019. Elected as a
Member of the European Parliament
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When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and S ...
in 2024.
Biography
He graduated economics from the
Łódź University of Technology
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. He completed postgraduate studies in law and administration at the
University of Łódź
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. In 2000, he joined the
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(SLD).
In 2002, he unsuccessfully ran for the Łódź City Council. From 2003 to 2006, he was the chairman of the Federation of Young Social Democrats in Łódź. In the
2006 elections
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, he was elected a councilor of Łódź, receiving 1508 votes.
Until 2007, he worked at the Łódź Tourist Enterprise, where he became the chief development specialist. Then, he worked as a specialist at the Voivodeship Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management in Łódź for several months. From June 2007 to February 2010, he served as deputy director at the Voivodeship Labor Office in Łódź.
He was one of the initiators of the local referendum to recall
Jerzy Kropiwnicki
Jerzy Janusz Kropiwnicki (born 5 July 1945 in Częstochowa) is a Polish right-wing politician, member of Law and Justice (Poland), Law and Justice party.
He was leader of small party Christian-National Union (Zjednoczenie Chrześcijańsko-Nar ...
from the position of
Mayor of Łódź. After the successful referendum in February 2010, he became the chairman of the regional council of the Democratic Left Alliance in
Łódź Voivodeship
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. In the same month, he was appointed deputy mayor of Łódź, serving until December 2010. In the
2010 Polish local elections
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, he was the SLD candidate for mayor of Łódź. In the first round of the election on 22 November 2010, he received 49,101 votes (24.01%), placing second among the candidates. In the second round, he received 51,426 votes (39.35%), losing to
Hanna Zdanowska, the candidate of the
Civic Platform
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. In the same elections, he won a seat in the
Łódź Voivodeship Sejmik IV term, with 18,275 votes.
In the
2011 Polish parliamentary election
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, he ran for the Sejm from the SLD list in the
Łódź electoral district. He received 15,164 votes and won a seat as the only representative from this list. On 7 November 2011, he was elected spokesperson for the SLD parliamentary club, and on 10 December of the same year, he became the party's spokesperson. From 30 May 2015 to 23 January 2016, he served as vice-chairman of the SLD. In the
2015 Polish parliamentary election
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, he did not win re-election. In January 2016, he returned to the position of deputy director at the Voivodeship Labor Office in Łódź.
On 1 February 2016, he resigned as the party's spokesperson. In February 2016, he co-founded the
Polish Initiative
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association. On 8 April 2017, he resigned from SLD membership.
In the
2018 Polish local elections
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, he was the
Civic Coalition candidate for the Łódź regional assembly; he won the seat in the VI term with 18,275 votes. In June 2019, after registering Polish Initiative as a political party, he joined its board.
In January 2019, he became vice president of the Łódź Aquapark Fala. In the
2019 Polish parliamentary election
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, he won a seat in the Sejm, running from the
Civic Coalition list, receiving 11,999 votes.
In 2023, together with
Michał Szczerba, he published a book titled ''Wielkie żniwa. Jak PiS ukradł Polskę'', based on widely commented parliamentary inspections conducted during the IX term of the Sejm. In the
2023 Polish parliamentary election
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, he led the KO list in the Łódź district; he received 87,470 votes, securing a seat in the Sejm X term. On 19 December 2023, he was elected chairman of the Sejm committee regarding Law and Justice's insistence of the
2020 Polish presidential election
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to be held by post, viewed by a non-binding declaration of the
Polish Supreme Court to be illegal.
References
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Democratic Left Alliance politicians
People from Łódź
1979 births
Living people
MEPs for Poland 2024–2029