Marian Janusz Kowalski (born 15 August 1964 in

Lublin Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the center of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of t ...

) is a Polish political activist, columnist and former bodybuilder. He was the official candidate of the

National Movement Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: The ...

for the office of

President of Poland The president of Poland ( pl, Prezydent RP), officially the president of the Republic of Poland ( pl, Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej), is the head of state of Poland. Their rights and obligations are determined in the Constitution of Polan ...

in the

2015 Polish presidential election Presidential elections were held in Poland on 10 and 24 May 2015. In the first round of voting Law and Justice (PiS) candidate, lawyer and Member of the European Parliament, Andrzej Duda received the greatest number of votes with a share of 34.7 ...

and served as Vice-Chairman of the party from 2014 to 2015. In the first round he received 0.52% of votes, which gave him ninth place among the candidates. From February 2016 until August 2018 he was the co-host of the political video podcast "Against the Tide" („Idź Pod Prąd”) along with Pastor Paweł Chojecki. In November 2017 he became the chairman of the "11 November Movement" He resigned his membership in August 2018 which was at the same time he parted with Paweł Chojecki. Since late 2019 he has been a vocal supporter of the

Law and Justice Law and Justice ( pl, Prawo i Sprawiedliwość , PiS) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Poland. Its chairman is Jarosław Kaczyński. It was founded in 2001 by Jarosław and Lech Kaczyński as a direct su ...

party.

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Candidates in the 2015 Polish presidential election 1964 births Living people Politicians from Lublin Polish bodybuilders {{Poland-politician-stub