Sławomir Witold Nitras (born 26 April 1973) is a Polish

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, political scientist, member of Civic Platform (PO) and a member of the

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since 2015. He currently serves as Minister of Sport and Tourism.

Biography

He was educated at the

University of Szczecin The University of Szczecin () is a public university in Szczecin, western Poland. It is the biggest university in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, West Pomerania, with 33,267 students and a staff of nearly 1,200. Faculties The university consists o ...

, graduating in 1998 in Political Science from the Faculty of Humanities. From 1997 to 1998 he was employed as a lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Szczecin. From 1998 to 1999 he was manager of the Koszalin voivodeship Governor's office, and in 1999 - 2002 sat on the Board of the Kruszywa Koszalin PLC mines. He spent the following three years running his own business. From 1998 to 2002 he was a Solidarity Election Action (AWS) councillor in the Western Pomeranian voivodeship sejmik. He was elected a Civic Platform (PO) MP for

Szczecin Szczecin ( , , ; ; ; or ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the Poland-Germany border, German border, it is a major port, seaport, the la ...

in the 2005 elections getting 14238 votes in 41 Szczecin district and 2007 parliamentary elections, gaining 65,993 votes (the highest individual number of votes in the constituency since 1989). During both terms in office he was a member of the Treasury Committee and in his second term he was also a member of the Economy Committee and the Accessible Government Extraordinary Committee. He was elected to the European Parliament in

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

for the Gorzów constituency, with 107,413 votes. He sits with the Group of the

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(Christian Democrats) and is also a member of the

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and of the delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. In 2014 he didn't seek re-election. On the 2 December in the same year he became the main adviser in political cabinet of Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz. In the 2015 parliamentary election he became Member of Polish Parliament by 20 930 votes. He is the chairman of the delegation of the Sejm and Senate of Poland to the Parliamentary Assembly of the

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. In 2019 parliamentary election he was reelected as a member of the Sejm with 78 513 votes. He ran for reelection once again in the 2023 parliamentary election and was subsequently reelected, receiving 90,720 votes. From 1991 to 1993 he was a member of the Real Politics Union, and from 1996 to 2001 belonged to the Conservative People's Party. Since 2001 he has been a member of Civic Platform (PO) and is a member of the National Executive. Since 2003 he has been the leader of PO in

, and since 2006 vice-chairman of the PO Regional Executive in

Western Pomerania Historical Western Pomerania, also called Cispomerania, Fore Pomerania, Front Pomerania or Hither Pomerania (; ), is the western extremity of the historic region of Pomerania, located mostly in north-eastern Germany, with a small portion in no ...

Personal life

He is married to Irmina and has two daughters, Natalia and Kornelia.

References

External links

European Parliament website profile

Official website of Sławomir Nitras
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nitras, Slawomir 1973 births Living people University of Szczecin alumni Academic staff of the University of Szczecin Civic Platform politicians Solidarity Electoral Action politicians Civic Platform MEPs MEPs for Poland 2009–2014 Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007 Members of the Polish Sejm 2007–2011 Members of the Polish Sejm 2015–2019 Members of the Polish Sejm 2019–2023 People from Połczyn-Zdrój Members of the Polish Sejm 2023–2027

Biography

Personal life

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