Marek Jurek (; 28 June 1960 in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland) is a right-wing politician and a

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. Since 20 April 2007 he has been the leader of the aspirant party

Right of the Republic The Right Wing of the Republic ( pl, Prawica Rzeczypospolitej) is a political party in Poland founded by former ''Marshal of the Sejm'' Marek Jurek on 20 April 2007 after he had left Law and Justice on 16 April 2007, when the Sejm failed to pass ...

. Politically, he is most known for being a

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in the years 2005–2007.

Biography

He is a graduate in history from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In the 1980s he was an activist in the anti-communist movement in Poland. After the fall of the communism in 1989, he was one of the founders of the now defunct political party

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. He was a deputy in the Contract Sejm and later in the

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of the Republic of Poland from 1991 to 1993. From 1995 to 2001 he was a member of the National Broadcasting Council. In 2001, he was elected a deputy of the

again, this time as a member of the Law and Justice party. On 26 October 2005 he was elected a Sejm marshal (parliament speaker) nominated by Law and Justice with 265 votes (133 votes were given to

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from

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). On 13 April 2007 he resigned from the post, following the Sejm's failure to amend the

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to protect prenatal life. On the following day, he left Law and Justice to found his own party, now known as the Right of the Republic. His resignation was accepted on 27 April 2007. In the parliamentary election in 2007 his party did not win any seats in the Parliament as it found itself below the

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. On 22 June 2008 Marek Jurek took part in a by-election to the Senate, held in

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-constituency following the death of Senator Andrzej Mazurkiewicz. With 10 751 votes, he gained the third place after the winner

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( Law and Justice) and Maciej Lewicki (Civic Platform). As there was only one seat available in the Senate, Marek Jurek remains outside the Parliament. On 27 September 2009, Jurek was awarded the Commander's Cross of the

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for outstanding contribution to the independence of Polish Republic, for activities on behalf of democratic change, for achievements in undertaken for the benefit of the country and social work. He was one of the candidates in the

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, but received only 1.06% of votes and failed to get into the second round.

Political positions

Marek Jurek declared full support for the teaching of the Catholic Church as he opposes abortion, euthanasia, same sex unions and in vitro. He supports the traditional family model. He supports the Creighton Model FertilityCare System. Jurek is in favor of bringing the future back to the Polish and European traditions, cultivating a

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and Latin culture. He is a supporter of the "

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jurek, Marek 1960 births Living people People from Gorzów Wielkopolski Polish traditionalist Catholics Solidarity Citizens' Committee politicians Christian National Union politicians Law and Justice politicians Right Wing of the Republic politicians Marshals of the Sejm of the Third Polish Republic Members of the Contract Sejm Members of the Polish Sejm 1991–1993 Members of the Polish Sejm 2001–2005 Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007 Candidates in the 2010 Polish presidential election 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta MEPs for Poland 2014–2019