Maciej Konieczny (born 14 October 1980) is a

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culture expert,

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politician, member of the Board of the

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(''Together'') party.Biography – 4 October 2015
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Life

He was born in 1980 in Gliwice in an intellectual family. In his youth he sympathized with nationalists; he describes himself from this period as a

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and he cuts himself off about it. He was also addicted to alcohol. He got out of the addiction with the help of therapy, he hasn't been drinking for several years. During the student period he made a living from odd jobs, and later also worked abroad, at

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. He graduated in cultural studies at the

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in the specialization of literature and popular culture (2005).

Political career

He encountered leftism during his studies and became fascinated with

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and alterglobalist movements. At the end of his studies, he joined the Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and for Citizens' Action (Poland), of which he was a representative at ATTAC Europa. He co-organized the LPP boycott and the ZTM Ticket Price Increases campaign. He was also active in the ''Young Socialists association'' (where he met, among others,

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and

Marcelina Zawisza Marcelina Monika Zawisza (born 3 May 1989 in Katowice, Poland) is a Polish social activist and left-wing politician. She is a member of the National Board of the Razem (''Together'') party. Biography Early life and education She was born in Ka ...

), in which he was a member of the national council for some time. After choosing Adam Ostolski as chairman of the

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, he decided to join this organization. In 2014, he took part in the election to the European Parliament from the Greens list in constituency No. 4. In January 2015 he left the Greens.

Partia Razem

In May 2015, he became one of the founders of Partia Razem, a new political party, and was elected to the nine-member Board, together with Jakub Baran, Aleksandra Cacha, Alicja Czubek, Magdalena Malińska, Mateusz Mirys, Katarzyna Paprota, Adrian Zandberg, and Marcelina Zawisza.Razem rośnie w siłę
- Lewica.pl Konieczny was placed on the first place on Razem's

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candidate list of the Sejm elections in October 2015. He did not get a deputy's seat, because Together he did not cross the electoral threshold. In the parliamentary election in 2019, he obtained a parliamentary seat from the list of the Democratic Left Alliance, receiving 22,262 votes in the Katowice constituency.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Konieczny, Maciej University of Silesia in Katowice alumni 1980 births Living people People from Gliwice Left Together politicians Members of the Polish Sejm 2019–2023