Paweł Bartosz Olszewski (born 11 December 1979 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 economist and politician,

Bydgoszcz City Council The Bydgoszcz City Council ( pl, Rada Miasta Bydgoszczy) is a unicameral governing body of the city of Bydgoszcz, the capital of Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. It consists of thirty-one councillors elected in free elections for a five-year term. ...

lor (2002–05) and member of the

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(since 2005).

Early life and career

He graduated from Florian Kaja Elementary School No. 32 in Bydgoszcz and Cyprian Norwid Secondary School No. 1 in Bydgoszcz. Afterward, he studied management and marketing (economy policy specialization) in the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. After his studies, he worked as an export manager at Bydgoska Fabryka Mebli (''Furniture Factory in Bydgoszcz''). After 2004, he worked as a

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at Zakłady Mechaniczne Skraw-Mech Sp. z o.o. (''LLC''). After being elected to the Sejm in 2005, he resigned from this work.

Political career

City Council

On 27 October 2002 he was elected to the

(''Rada Miasta Bydgoszcz''). He received 382 votes in the 3rd district as a candidate from the Bydgoszcz Civic Agreement list (''Bydgoskie Porozumienie Obywatelskie''). At 23 years old, he was the youngest member of the Bydgoszcz City Council. BPO's presidential candidate, Konstanty Dombrowicz was elected

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. In the city council, Olszewski served as the vice-chairperson of the Budget and Finance Committee and as a member of the European Integration Committee. His term ended in 2005 when he was elected to the Sejm.

Fifth Term Sejm

On 25 September 2005 he was elected to the

Sejm of the Republic of Poland The Sejm (English: , Polish: ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland ( Polish: ''Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''), is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland. The Sejm has been the highest governing body of t ...

, the lower house of the Polish parliament. He polled 6,850 votes in 4 Bydgoszcz district as a candidate from the

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list. From 9 November he served as a member of the Economy Committee and the Administration and Internal Affairs Committee. He was a member of the Sejm V Term from 19 October 2005 to 5 November 2007, when his term ended.

Sixth Term Sejm

On 21 October 2007 he was re-elected to the Sejm. He polled 8,633 votes in 4 Bydgoszcz district as a candidate from the

list. He has been a member of Sejm VI Term since 6 November 2007. He has actively worked against the

Zawisza Bydgoszcz Zawisza Bydgoszcz () is a sports club from Bydgoszcz, Poland, founded in 1946. Its name commemorates a legendary Polish 15th-century knight, Zawisza Czarny (Zawisza the Black). The club holds many sections: football, track and field athletics, ...

football club and its fans.

Personal life

His father Wiesław was also a politician. Wiesław Olszewski was a member of the

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and served as the governor of

Bydgoszcz Voivodeship Bydgoszcz Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in the years 1975–1998, superseded by Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. Capital city: Bydgoszcz Area: Statistics (1 January 1992): Population ...

from 1993 to 1997, and as a Bydgoszcz City councillor until 2006.

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