Jacek Olgierd Kurski (, born 22 February 1966 in

Gdańsk Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...

) is a Polish politician and journalist, and the current chairman of the Polish public broadcaster TVP. He was previously a Member of the

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(2005–2009),

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(2009–2014), and State Undersecretary for the

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(2015–2016). He was first elected to the

on 25 September 2005, getting 26,446 votes in 25 – Gdańsk as a member 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. On 8 September 2010, Kurski was the only MEP to vote against a condemnation by the

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of the execution of Iranian national

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani ( fa, سکینه محمدی آشتیانی; born 1967) is an Iranian Azeri woman convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and adultery. She gained international notoriety for originally being sentenced to death by sto ...

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. Kurski stated that he voted against by error, and he corrected his vote almost immediately.

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