Krzysztof Brejza (born 16 May 1983 in Bydgoszcz,

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

) is a Polish politician, currently serving as Member of the

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, representing the Bydgoszcz district. Between 2005 and 2006 he was a member of the

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Career

Brejza is a graduate of the Law and Administration Faculty of

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. In the 2002 Polish local elections he was elected to the Regional Assembly representing one of the Bydgoszcz City districts. Having received 1,512 votes and coming second on the

Civic Platform Civic Platform ( pl, Platforma Obywatelska, PO)The party is officially the Civic Platform of the Republic of Poland (''Platforma Obywatelska Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''). is a political party in Poland. It is currently led by Donald Tusk. It ...

and Law and Justice ( POPiS) list behind

Maciej Świątkowski Maciej Świątkowski (born 16 March 1950 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 8780 votes in 4 Bydgoszcz district as a candidate from Civic Platform Civic Platform ( pl, Platforma Obywatel ...

, Brejza was not initially elected. Only after Świątkowski was elected to the

(the lower house of the Polish parliament) in the 2005 parliamentary elections did Brejza take over his seat in the Regional Assembly. He served only one year, until the end of his term. In the 2006 local elections, he ran again for the Regional Assembly. Scoring 2,874 votes in the 1st Bydgoszcz City district, he came fourth on the

list and wasn't elected, as Civic Platform only won three seats. In the 2007 parliamentary elections, he was elected to the

from the

list in the 4th district ( Bydgoszcz) with 6,441 votes. He was reelected in the 2015 elections with 15,951 votes. His father Ryszard Brejza is also a politician, having been a Member of the 6th Sejm of the Polish Republic (1997-2001) and currently serving as President (Mayor) of

Inowrocław Inowrocław (; german: Hohensalza; before 1904: Inowrazlaw; archaic: Jungleslau) is a city in central Poland with a total population of 70,713 in December 2021. It is situated in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999, previously in the B ...

, a role he has held since 2002.

2019 parliamentary election campaign surveillance

In December 2021, the news emerged that Senator Brejza was under surveillance according to the

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at the

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. The surveillance took place during the

2019 Polish parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 13 October 2019. All 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators of the Senate were elected. The ruling Law and Justice (PiS) retained its majority in the Sejm, but lost its majority in the Senate to the ...

campaign and involved the use of Pegasus spyware, which the Polish government-controlled secret service is unofficially in possession of. Brejza was head of the Civic Coalition election campaign at the time and it is alleged that the spying could have affected the results of the elections won by the conservative Law and Justice party leading to calls for setting up an investigation committee into the case. In January 2022, the Polish Senate passed a resolution to establish a special committee to investigate this matter.

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Krzysztof Brejza - Sejm VI Term page
- includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches. {{DEFAULTSORT:Brejza, Krzysztof 1983 births Living people Politicians from Bydgoszcz Members of the Polish Sejm 2007–2011 Civic Platform politicians Members of the Polish Sejm 2011–2015 Members of the Polish Sejm 2015–2019 Members of the Senate of Poland 2019–2023

Career

2019 parliamentary election campaign surveillance

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