Sebastian Łukaszewicz (born February 9, 1991, in

Białystok Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the List of cities and towns in Poland, tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area. Biał ...

) is a Polish local government official and manager, in 2022–2023 vice-marshal of the

Podlaskie Voivodeship Podlaskie Voivodeship ( ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship in northeastern Poland. The name of the voivodeship refers to the historical region of Podlachia (in Polish, ''Podlasie''), and significant part of its territory corresponds to th ...

. He is a member of the Sejm of the 10th term.

Biography

Son of Andrzej and Elżbieta. He studied French philology with Spanish and internal security at the

University of Białystok The University of Bialystok is the largest university in the north-eastern region of Poland, educating in various fields of study, including humanities, social and natural sciences and mathematics. It has nine faculties, including a foreign one i ...

, in 2017 he obtained a bachelor's degree in the latter field. In 2020 he graduated from MBA studies at the Management Academy of Applied Sciences in Warsaw. In 2019 he became deputy director of the Białystok branch of Totalizator Sportowy, and was also a member of the boards of various institutions, including the Polish Mutual Insurance Company He became involved in political activities within the

Law and Justice Law and Justice ( , PiS) is a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist and National conservatism, national-conservative List of political parties in Poland, political party in Poland. The party is a member of European Conservatives and Refo ...

party. In 2010 he ran for the

Podlaskie Voivodeship Sejmik The Podlaskie Voivodeship Sejmik () is the regional legislature of the Voivodeship of Podlaskie. It is a unicameral parliamentary body consisting of thirty councillors elected to a five-year term. The current chairperson of the assembly is Cezar ...

. In 2015–2018, he was an advisor to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Krzysztof Jurgiel, responsible for cooperation with local governments and non-governmental organizations. In 2018, he was elected a councilor of the

of the 6th term. As a representative of Podlaskie, he joined the

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. In January 2020, he moved from PiS to Solidarna Polska (renamed

Sovereign Poland Sovereign Poland (, SP), also known as United Poland (; alternatively translated to Solidarity Poland), until 2023, was a Catholic-nationalist political party in Poland led by Zbigniew Ziobro. It was founded in 2012, as the Catholic-nationalist ...

in May 2023). On March 3, 2022, he took over as vice-marshal of the

(in place of

Stanisław Derehajło Stanisław Derehajło (born March 23, 1972 in Bielsk Podlaski) is a Polish local government official, teacher and farmer, in 1998–2017 Wójt (mayor) of the Boćki Commune, in 2018–2021 vice-marshal of the Podlaskie Voivodeship, then until 202 ...

, dismissed in October 2021, who had been acting vice-marshal until then due to the ineffective election of a successor, at that time Sebastian Łukaszewicz was not elected vice-marshal by the regional assembly). In 2021, he was finally sentenced by the

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to a fine for insulting the Equality March in Białystok in 2019. In the 2023 elections, he won the mandate of a member of the Sejm of the 10th term, running from the last place on the PiS list (as a representative of Sovereign Poland) in the Białystok district and receiving 11,554 votes. As a result, he ended his term as vice-marshal of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. In January 2024, he was appointed to the Sejm's investigative committee on the use of Pegasus software.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Łepkowska-Gołaś, Alicja Living people Politicians from Białystok 1991 births Law and Justice politicians Members of the Polish Sejm 2023–2027 Members of voivodeship assemblies in Poland