Arkadiusz Marchewka (born 18 January 1986)) is a Polish politician, member of

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of the

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and 9th legislature.

Early life and education

Arkadiusz Marchewka was born in 1986 in

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 ...

. He graduated International Relations 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 ...

in 2010 and in 2009 Management at the Faculty of Economics of the West Pomeranian University of Technology. At the

, based on the ''Oddziaływanie bezpośrednich inwestycji zagranicznych na rynek pracy województwa zachodniopomorskiego'', he obtained a PhD of economics.

Political career

He became involved in political activities within the framework of the

Civic Platform The Civic Platform (, PO)The party is officially the Civic Platform of the Republic of Poland (''Platforma Obywatelska Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''). is a Centre-right politics, centre-right liberal conservative political party in Poland. Since ...

. In 2007, he was elected to the Niebuszewo estate council. He was an assistant to the deputy marshal of the

West Pomeranian Voivodeship West Pomeranian Voivodeship is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in northwestern Poland. Its capital and largest city is Szczecin. Its area equals , and in 2021, it was inhabited by 1,682,003 people. It was established on 1 Janua ...

– Witold Jabłoński, then employed in the marshal's office. Later, he started working as a manager in the ''Polskie Terminale'' company. In 2010 and 2014, he was elected to the Szczecin City Council. He was the vice-president of the city council.

Parliamentarian

In the parliamentary election in 2015, he ran for the

mandate from the Civic Platform list. He obtained the mandate of the MP of the

legislature, receiving 7147 votes. In the Sejm of the 8th legislature, he became a member of the Committee on Economy and Development, the Committee on Maritime Economy and Inland Navigation as well as the Committee on Digitization, Innovation and Modern Technologies. In April 2018, he became the president of the Civic Platform structures in the

. In the elections in 2019, he successfully applied for a parliamentary reelection, from Civic Coalition list, receiving 30 047 votes. In the Sejm of the 9th legislature he became vice-chairman of the Maritime Economy and Inland Navigation Committee, member of the Digitization, Innovation and Modern Technologies Committee and Public Finance Committee, vice-chairman of the Polish-Swedish Parliamentary Group and chairman of the West Pomeranian Parliamentary Team

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Marchewka, Arkadiusz Civic Platform politicians 1986 births Politicians from Szczecin University of Szczecin alumni Members of the Polish Sejm 2015–2019 Members of the Polish Sejm 2019–2023 Living people Members of the Polish Sejm 2023–2027