Ryszard Czarnecki

Ryszard Czarnecki (2015)

Ryszard Czarnecki Henryk (* 25. January 1963 in London as Richard Henry Czarnecki ) is a Polish politician ( PiS ) and Member of Parliament . From July 2014 to February 2018 he was one of its Vice Presidents.

Education, job and private life

After graduating from high school in Warsaw in 1981 , Czarnecki studied history at the Philosophical-Historical Faculty of the University of Wroclaw . Since 2009 he has been married to Emilia Hermaszewska, the daughter of the cosmonaut Mirosław Hermaszewski .

He was archivist of the Archive of New Files ( Archiwum Akt Nowych ) in Warsaw (1986) and the Archives of Solidarność (1987), journalist at The Polish Daily in London (1988–1990), editorial secretary of Głos (1990–1991), deputy editor-in-chief von Wiadomości Dnia (1991), editor-in-chief of Dziennik Dolnośląski (1991) and acting director of North Pole Press (1991). In addition, he was the head of the editorial department for religious programs at the Polish television station Polsat (1993–1997) and university lecturer (2001–2004).

politics

Sejm

Czarnecki was a member of several political groups. In 1987 he co-founded the Union for Realpolitik ( Unia Polityki Realnej ), which was illegal until 1990 . With a place on the list of the Catholic voter campaign (Wyborcza Akcja Katolicka) he was elected to the Sejm in 1991 .

From 1994 he was chairman of the Christian National Association (Zjednoczenie Chrześcijańsko-Narodowe) , and in 1997 he was elected to the Sejm from the list of the electoral campaign "Solidarność" ( Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność ).

He was a representative of the Sejm at NATO from 1991 to 1993, member of the Committee for European Integration in the Sejm, chairman of the committee for contacts with Poland abroad 1999-2001, deputy chairman of the committee for European law 2000-2001, representative of the Sejm in of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union 1991–2001.

He held the following government positions: Deputy Minister for Culture (1993), Minister for European Integration (1997–1999), Head of the Committee for European Integration (1997–1998), Minister and member of the Council of Ministers (1998–1999).

European Parliament

In 2004 he entered the European Parliament on the list of the Samoobrona party . In 2008 he joined the PiS party ( Prawo i Sprawiedliwość , “Law and Justice”) and was re-elected to the European Parliament in 2009 from the list of this party with 27,106 votes. On July 2, 2014, Czarnecki was elected by a relative majority in the third ballot to one of 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament. He is one of the 89 people from the European Union against whom Russia imposed an entry ban in May 2015 .

After the Polish member of the European Parliament Róża Thun had warned of controversial reforms of the Polish government in an Arte documentary, she was insulted by Czarnecki on his blog as Szmalcownik , a term for collaborators of the Nazis during the Holocaust . The European Parliament reacted to these statements for the first time in its history with a voting procedure against one of its vice-presidents. In the vote on February 7, 2018, Czarnecki was removed from his office with the necessary two-thirds majority with 447 to 196 votes.

Web links

Commons : Ryszard Czarnecki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Ryszard Czarnecki in the European Parliament 's database of deputies

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [mar]: Europoseł PiS ożenił się z córką kosmonauty! In: fakt.pl. August 29, 2010, Retrieved October 15, 2012 (Polish). 
2. ↑ 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament elected. In: European Parliament, July 2, 2014
3. ↑ Andreas Borcholte: Entry bans: Russia accuses EU politicians of showing behavior. In: Spiegel Online. May 31, 2015, accessed June 1, 2015 . 
4. ^ RUS: Russian Visa Blocking List. (PDF 23 KB) In: yle.fi. May 26, 2015, accessed June 1, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Out after Nazi comparison. EU Parliament fires Polish Vice-President. In: MDR , February 7, 2018.