Dominik Tarczyński (born March 27, 1979, in
Lublin
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) is a Polish politician and journalist who was previously a member of the
Sejm and has been a member of the
European Parliament since 2020.
Biography
From 2003 to 2008, he was a community animator at London's
Westminster Cathedral, and hosted a radio broadcast of
Christian music. He was a lay assistant to one of the British
exorcists. From January 23, 2009, to February 1, 2010, he was the director of
TVP3 Kielce; later, he was employed as the deputy director for operation in the IT and Telecommunications Center of
TVP.
He also took up journalistic activity in the pages of "
Gazeta Polska" and created documentary films devoted, among other topics, to the activities of exorcists. He directed the documentary film ''Colombia - Testimony to the World'', with the participation of the then-president of Colombia,
Álvaro Uribe, which received an award at the Sixteenth International Catholic Film and Multimedia Festival in
Niepokalanów
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. He was the founder of the Association of Catholics Charismatics.
In 2010, he unsuccessfully ran for the
Świętokrzyskie Sejm from the Law and Justice list. Then he organized the structures of the Poland Is Most Important Association in
Kielce
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, but after a few weeks he left it. In 2011, he co-founded
Solidarna Polska, which he left at the beginning of April 2014. In the same year, on the recommendation of the Right hand of the Republic of Poland, he again ran for the regional council from the
PiS list. In the parliamentary elections in 2015, he ran to the Sejm as a non-party candidate from the eleventh place on the Law and Justice list in the Kielce district. He was elected MP for the 8th term of office, receiving 7,475 votes. After the elections, he became a member of PiS.
In October 2018, he lost a lawsuit filed by
Bogdan Wenta, who was running for the presidency of Kielce. In a decision upheld by the Court of Appeal in
Kraków, the District Court of
Kielce
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ordered him to correct and stop disseminating untrue information about Wenta's alleged service in
ZOMO and about him "training on the heads of Poles." He was also ordered to issue an apology and a payment of
PLN 20,000 PLN for the
Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity.
In the
2019 European Parliament elections
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, he was elected deputy of the
ninth term. He received an additional mandate in the European Parliament, granted to Poland as part of the distribution of some of the mandates previously filled by
Great Britain. However, due to the delay in the
Brexit procedure, this mandate was suspended.
In the
Polish parliamentary election of the same year, he was again elected to the Sejm, receiving 8,186 votes. On February 1, 2020, after Brexit took effect, he was seated as a member of the Ninth European Parliament.
References
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Law and Justice MEPs
Polish anti-communists
Polish nationalists
MEPs for Poland 2019–2024
1979 births
Living people
Politicians from Lublin