Adam Jerzy Bielan (, born on 12 September 1974 in

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, Poland) is a Polish politician,

Member of the European Parliament A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been Election, elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and S ...

for Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie and Masovian between 2004 and 2014, and from 2019 MEP for Masovian constituency. Member of the

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and the

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2015–2019. Bielan sits on the

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. Bielan is a substitute for the

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, a member of the Delegation for relations with

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and a substitute for the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

Biography

Bielan was chairman of the

Independent Students' Union Independent Students' Association (, NZS) is a Polish student society, created in October 1980, in the aftermath of the Gdańsk Agreement and the anti-government strike actions (see: History of Solidarity). It was a student arm, or suborganization ...

from 1996 to 1998. In September 1997, he was elected to the

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for

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on the national list: 9 days after his 23rd birthday. The following year, he joined the Conservative People's Party. In 1999, he became vice-chairman of the

European Democrat Students European Democrat Students (EDS) is a pan-European centre-right student and youth political association, and the official student organisation of the European People's Party. Founded in Vienna by Scandinavian, German and Austrian students in 196 ...

, in which capacity he served for one year. He joined the Right Alliance (PP) when it was formed in 2001, and ran successfully on 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 ...

(PiS) list in that year's election in Chrzanów. He joined Law and Justice when the PP merged into it in 2002. He was appointed to the

on Poland's accession on 1 May 2004 and was re-elected in the election in June 2004, representing Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie, which includes Chrzanów. Together with fellow MEP

Michał Kamiński Michał Tomasz Kamiński (born 28 March 1972) is a Polish politician and a member of the Senate with the Union of European Democrats. He was chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists in the European Parliament from July 2009 until ...

, Bielan was behind

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's successful campaign in the 2005 presidential election.Kto się boi Bielana i Kamińskiego – Rzeczpospolita daily
In 2007, Bielan was elected as the

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, as the representative of Union for Europe of the Nations, to which PiS belonged. Bielan was re-elected to the European Parliament at the 2009 election, and joined the

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group with PiS. He was elected one of the ECR's two Vice-Chairmen, with

as chairman. Along with Kamiński and two other MEPs, Bielan became associated with the Poland Comes First party in November 2010. They continued to sit with the ECR in the Parliament and Bielan continued to be group Vice-Chairman. Bielan left Poland Comes First on 18 March 2011 to sit as an independent. He joined the newly found Poland Together party in January, 2014. He was excluded from the party in 2021.

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