Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa (; born 13 September 1976 in Gdańsk) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the

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on 25 September 2005, getting 14,709 votes in 25 Gdańsk district as a candidate from the

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list. He is the son of former

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Lech Wałęsa Lech Wałęsa (; ; born 29 September 1943) is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served as the President of Poland between 1990 and 1995. After winning the 1990 election, Wałęsa became the first democrati ...

. Wałęsa is a 1995 graduate of

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, in Connecticut, where he spent his high school years as a foreign exchange student. He then attended the College of the Holy Cross in

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. On 2 September 2011 Jarosław was seriously injured riding his motorcycle after colliding with a SUV in Stropkowo near

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. His injuries included a broken spine and dozens of fractures; and he was still undergoing corrective surgeries in July 2015. He married Ewelina Jachymek in a civil ceremony in 2012, and in a convent in 2013. Their son Wiktor was born in March 2014, becoming the twelfth grandson of

. In the European Parliament election June 2009, he became a member of the European parliament. In 2014, he was re-elected. He lost his brother, Przemyslaw, (born 1974), Lech Wałęsa's third son, a border guard, who lived in the Morena district in Gdańsk, on 8 January 2017. Wałęsa became the new head of the Civic Institute, said to be the think tank of

, a Polish political party, on 16 June 2015.

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Jarosław Wałęsa - parliamentary page
- includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches. {{DEFAULTSORT:Walesa, Jaroslaw 1976 births Living people Politicians from Gdańsk Polish Roman Catholics Civic Platform politicians Children of national leaders Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007 Members of the Polish Sejm 2007–2011 Members of the Polish Sejm 2019–2023 College of the Holy Cross alumni Polish expatriates in the United States Civic Platform MEPs MEPs for Poland 2009–2014 MEPs for Poland 2014–2019 University of Gdańsk alumni

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