Dominik Tarczyński (born March 27, 1979, in
Lublin) is a Polish politician and journalist who was previously a member of the
Sejm
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The Sejm has been the highest governing body of ...
and has been a member of the
European Parliament
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since 2020.
Biography
From 2003 to 2008, he was a community animator at London's
Westminster Cathedral
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The site on which the cathedral stands in the City o ...
, and hosted a radio broadcast of
Christian music
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. He was a lay assistant to one of the British
exorcist
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s. From January 23, 2009, to February 1, 2010, he was the director of
TVP3 Kielce
TVP3 Kielce is a regional branch of the TVP, Poland's public television broadcaster, with the registered office located in Kielce. It serves Kielce and the entire Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
The Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, also known as ...
; later, he was employed as the deputy director for operation in the IT and Telecommunications Center of
TVP.
He also took up journalistic activity in the pages of "
Gazeta Polska
''Gazeta Polska'' ( lit.: ''Polish Newspaper'') is a Polish language pro- United Right right-wing populist to far-right weekly magazine published in Poland.
Profile and history
Gazeta Polska was founded in 1993 and its editor-in-chief is Tomas ...
" and created documentary films devoted, among other topics, to the activities of exorcists. He directed the documentary film ''Colombia - Testimony to the World'', with the participation of the then-president of Colombia,
Álvaro Uribe
Álvaro Uribe Vélez (born 4 July 1952) is a Colombian politician who served as the 31st President of Colombia from 7 August 2002 to 7 August 2010.
Uribe started his political career in his home department of Antioquia. He held offices in t ...
, which received an award at the Sixteenth International Catholic Film and Multimedia Festival in
Niepokalanów. He was the founder of the Association of Catholics Charismatics.
In 2010, he unsuccessfully ran for the
Świętokrzyskie Sejm from the Law and Justice list. Then he organized the structures of the Poland Is Most Important Association in
Kielce, but after a few weeks he left it. In 2011, he co-founded
Solidarna Polska, which he left at the beginning of April 2014. In the same year, on the recommendation of the Right hand of the Republic of Poland, he again ran for the regional council from the
PiS list. In the parliamentary elections in 2015, he ran to the Sejm as a non-party candidate from the eleventh place on the Law and Justice list in the Kielce district. He was elected MP for the 8th term of office, receiving 7,475 votes. After the elections, he became a member of PiS.
In October 2018, he lost a lawsuit filed by
Bogdan Wenta
Bogdan Brunon Wenta (born 19 November 1961) is a Polish politician and handball coach and former Polish and German handball player. He has been a member of the Poland men's national handball team in 1981–1994 and Germany men's national handbal ...
, who was running for the presidency of Kielce. In a decision upheld by the Court of Appeal in
Kraków
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, the District Court of
Kielce ordered him to correct and stop disseminating untrue information about Wenta's alleged service in
ZOMO
The Motorized Reserves of the Citizens' Militia ( pl, Zmotoryzowane Odwody Milicji Obywatelskiej), commonly known as ZOMO, were paramilitary-police formations during the communist era in Poland. These elite units of Citizens' Militia (MO) were ...
and about him "training on the heads of Poles." He was also ordered to issue an apology and a payment of
PLN 20,000 PLN for the
Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity
The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity (GOCC, Polish ''Wielka Orkiestra Świątecznej Pomocy'', WOŚP) is the biggest, non-governmental, non-profit, charity organization in Poland raising money for pediatric and elderly care. The GOCC Foundatio ...
.
In the
2019 European Parliament elections, he was elected deputy of the
ninth term. He received an additional mandate in the European Parliament, granted to Poland as part of the distribution of some of the mandates previously filled by
Great Britain
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. However, due to the delay in the
Brexit
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procedure, this mandate was suspended.
In the
Polish parliamentary election of the same year, he was again elected to the Sejm, receiving 8,186 votes. On February 1, 2020, after Brexit took effect, he was seated as a member of the Ninth European Parliament.
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Law and Justice MEPs
Polish anti-communists
Polish nationalists
MEPs for Poland 2019–2024
1979 births
Living people
Politicians from Lublin