Włodzimierz Skalik (born 10 June 1959)
is a Polish politician, businessman and pilot who serves as a member of the
10th term Sejm.
Early life and education
Skalik was born in
Radomsko
Radomsko () is a city in southern Poland with 44,700 inhabitants (2021). It is situated on the Radomka river in the Łódź Voivodeship. It is the county seat of Radomsko County.
Founded in the 11th century, Radomsko is a former royal city located ...
.
He studied at the
National Defense University of Warsaw.
Skalik began his aviation training at the
Częstochowa Aero Club (a regional branch of the
Polish Aero Club
The Polish Aero Club (''Aeroklub Polski'', AP) is the Polish central association of persons practising air sports or recreational flying. It was founded in 1921 and is a member of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. It has a headquarte ...
) in 1975.
In March 2010, he was elected president of the Polish Aero Club, a position he held until March 2018. Also in 2010, Skalik became one of the vice-presidents of the
World Air Sports Federation (FAI).
Political career
In 2006, Skalik was elected as a councilor of the
Silesian Voivodeship Sejmik from 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 list.
In 2007, he joined the
Right of the Republic.
He unsuccessfully ran for a parliamentary seat in the
early parliamentary elections from the list of the
League of Polish Families
The League of Polish Families ( Polish: ''Liga Polskich Rodzin,'' , LPR) is a social conservative political party in Poland, with many far-right elements in the past. The party's original ideology was that of the National Democracy movement whic ...
.
In
2018
Events January
* January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency.
* January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
, as a representative of the Right of the Republic, Skalik ran for the Silesian Voivodeship Sejmik from the list of the
Kukiz'15
Kukiz'15 is a right-wing populist political party in Poland led by Paweł Kukiz.
It was formed in 2015 as a loose movement that registered itself as an association in 2016 and later as a political party in 2020. Initially, it was connected wit ...
committee, which did not win any seats.
In
2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
, as a non-party candidate, he unsuccessfully ran for the
European Parliament
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from the
Confederation
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list.
In the
elections in the same year, he also unsuccessfully ran for the
Sejm
The Sejm (), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (), is the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral parliament of Poland.
The Sejm has been the highest governing body of the Third Polish Republic since the Polish People' ...
from the Confederation list.
In the
2023 parliamentary elections, Skalik won a parliamentary seat from the list of the same party, running in the
Opole district and winning 15190 votes.
Personal life
Skalik is married, has four children.
Honours and awards
* :
** Knight's Cross of the
Order of Polonia Restituta
The Order of Polonia Restituta (, ) is a Polish state decoration, state Order (decoration), order established 4 February 1921. It is conferred on both military and civilians as well as on alien (law), foreigners for outstanding achievements in ...
(2005)
** Gold
Cross of Merit (1995)
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Skalik, Wlodzimierz
1959 births
Living people
Members of the Polish Sejm 2023–2027
21st-century Polish businesspeople
People from Radomsko