Patryk Jaki
Patryk Tomasz Jaki (born May 11, 1985 in Opole ) is a Polish politician ( Solidarna Polska ). Under Beata Szydło , Jaki was appointed Deputy Minister of Justice in 2015 . He has been a member of the European Parliament since 2019 .
In the self-government elections in 2018 , he ran for the Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (PiS) party and was defeated by former Deputy Foreign Minister Rafał Trzaskowski (PO) for the office of mayor of Warsaw .
Life
Jaki graduated from the University of Wroclaw with a master's degree in political science in 2010 . He completed postgraduate studies at the IESE Business School in Barcelona and at Sam Houston State University . As a marketing specialist , he worked at the International University of Logistics and Transport in Wroclaw. He also works for the Voivode of Opole and as an assistant to MEP Ryszard Legutko .
Jaki is married and has one son. His father Ireneusz Jaki was also politically active at times.
politics
For the Platforma Obywatelska (PO), Jaki moved into the Opole City Council in 2006 , but soon switched to PiS. After returning to the council in 2010, he became parliamentary group leader and successfully ran for the Sejm in the seventh and eighth electoral terms in 2011 and 2015 . In March 2012 he was a co-founder of Solidarna Polska (SP), which is close to PiS. However, his candidacy for a member of the European Parliament in 2014 was unsuccessful.
On November 18, 2015, he became State Secretary and Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Justice. His area of responsibility includes the supervision of the penal system . After a change in the law in March 2016, he is also the first deputy to the Attorney General (and Minister of Justice) Zbigniew Ziobro . From 2017 to 2019 he was also chairman of the “Verification Commission” ( Komisja do spraw reprywatyzacji nieruchomości warszawskich - Commission for the Reprivatisation of Warsaw Real Estate), which deals with the processing of the Warsaw reprivatisation affair .
In 2017, he came tenth in the ranking of the 50 most influential Poles, according to a survey by the weekly magazine Wprost . In the election as mayor of Warsaw in October 2018, he took second place with 28.5% behind Rafał Trzaskowski ( Koalicja Obywatelska ), who was elected with 56.7% of the vote in the first ballot.
Positions
Jaki is an avowed advocate of the death penalty and a strict opponent of abortion - also in the case of developmental disorders of the embryo due to illness. He is also an opponent of accepting immigrants in Poland. In 2014, Jaki refused to rebuild the Warsaw Rainbow .
Web links
- Patryk Jaki's website
- Patryk Jaki . (7th Sejm)
- Patryk Jaki . (8th Sejm)
- Entry for Patryk Jaki in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
Individual evidence
- ^ Janusz A. Majcherek: The autumn beginning of an election marathon in Poland . In: POLAND ANALYZES . NO. 222, September 4, 2018. p. 2f. (pdf, accessed October 19, 2018)
- ^ Result on the website of the Election Commission, accessed on July 22, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jaki, Patryk |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jaki, Patryk Tomasz (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish politician, member of the Sejm and Vice Minister of Justice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Opole |