Krzysztof Adam Matyjaszczyk (born 27 May 1974,

Radomsko Radomsko is a city in southern Poland with 44,700 inhabitants (2021). It is situated on the Radomka river in the Łódź Voivodeship (since 1999), having previously been in Piotrków Trybunalski Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is the county seat ...

) is a Polish politician, Member of the

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(2007-2010), local official, since 2010 president of

Częstochowa Częstochowa ( , ; german: Tschenstochau, Czenstochau; la, Czanstochova) is a city in southern Poland on the Warta River with 214,342 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship (admin ...

Life and career

He graduated from construction and management at the Częstochowa University of Technology. He is a member of the

Democratic Left Alliance The Democratic Left Alliance () was a social-democratic political party in Poland. It was formed in 9 July 1991 as an electoral alliance of centre-left parties, and became a single party on 15 April 1999. It was the major coalition party in Po ...

. In the years 2002-2007 he was a member of the City Council of Częstochowa, serving as vice-chairman. In the parliamentary election in 2005, from the list of SLD, he ran without success to the Sejm. In the local government elections in 2006 from

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, he ran for the presidency of Czestochowa, taking 3rd place out of 6 candidates (obtained 14,683 votes, which was 20.83%). In the parliamentary election in 2007, he was elected an MP, running from the LiD list in the Częstochowa constituency and receiving 16,432 votes. In the local government elections in 2010, he started again as a SLD candidate for the office of President of Częstochowa. In the first round, he obtained 35,045 (45.83%) votes. He moved to the second round with Izabela Leszczyna from the PO, who received 16 815 votes (21.99%). In the second round, he obtained a score of 33,696 (70.89%) of the votes against 13,840 (29.11%) of votes for his opponent. In the local government elections in 2014, he successfully applied for re-election, receiving in the second round 56.72% of the votes and defeating the

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candidate -

Artur Warzocha Artur Ryszard Warzocha (born 11 November 1969, in Piotrków Trybunalski) is a Polish politician, local official, first deputy voivode of Silesia (2006–2007), Senator of the Senate of the Republic of Poland since 2015. Biography He graduate ...

. In 2018 local elections he was elected for the next term in the first round, obtaining 59.76% of votes.

Reforms and political views

Krzysztof Matyjaszczyk is a politician with

liberal Liberal or liberalism may refer to: Politics * a supporter of liberalism ** Liberalism by country * an adherent of a Liberal Party * Liberalism (international relations) * Sexually liberal feminism * Social liberalism Arts, entertainment and m ...

leftist Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in soci ...

views, but against the background of his own party he is a politician with very

moderate Moderate is an ideological category which designates a rejection of radical or extreme views, especially in regard to politics and religion. A moderate is considered someone occupying any mainstream position avoiding extreme views. In American ...

and

centrist Centrism is a political outlook or position involving acceptance or support of a balance of social equality and a degree of social hierarchy while opposing political changes that would result in a significant shift of society strongly to the l ...

views. He is a proponent of ruling a city in a coalition with a Civic Coalition. As Mayor, Matyjaszczyk introduced funding program for

in vitro fertilisation In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process of fertilisation where an egg is combined with sperm in vitro ("in glass"). The process involves monitoring and stimulating an individual's ovulatory process, removing an ovum or ova (egg or eggs) ...

. He supports to create

Częstochowa Voivodeship Częstochowa Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975–1998, superseded mainly by Silesian Voivodeship, with a few eastern gminas attached to the freshly created Świętokrzyskie Voivodesh ...

again.

References

External links

Krzysztof Matyjaszczyk official page

Krzysztof Matyjaszczyk private Homepage
1974 births People from Częstochowa Living people Democratic Left Alliance politicians Mayors of places in Poland Members of the Polish Sejm 2007–2011 Members of the Polish Sejm 2015–2019 People from Radomsko {{Poland-politician-stub