Artur Henryk Chojecki (born April 19, 1974, in

Elbląg Elbląg (; ; ) is a city in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, located in the eastern edge of the Żuławy region with 127,390 inhabitants, as of December 2021. It is the capital of Elbląg County. Elbląg is one of the ol ...

) is a Polish politician and local government official who served as the

Voivode Voivode ( ), also spelled voivod, voievod or voevod and also known as vaivode ( ), voivoda, vojvoda, vaivada or wojewoda, is a title denoting a military leader or warlord in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe in use since the Early Mid ...

of Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship in the years 2015–2023 and from 2023 is a member of the

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of the 10th term.

Biography

He graduated from the Juliusz Słowacki 1st General Secondary School in

, then in 2001 he studied

theology Theology is the study of religious belief from a Religion, religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity. It is taught as an Discipline (academia), academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itse ...

at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. He worked in a bookstore and as a teacher at a primary school in Pasym. He became involved in political activities within 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, from 2005 to 2007 he was the director of the senator's office of Jerzy Szmit. Later he was employed as a tutor in the Voluntary Labour Corps. In 2006, 2010 and 2014 he was elected as a councillor of the Warmian–Masurian Regional Assembly, and was its vice-chairman in the 4th and 5th term. He is activist of

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. He also sat on the program council of Polskie Radio Olsztyn. On December 8, 2015, he was appointed to the position of

of Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship. In the 2019 parliamentary election he unsuccessfully ran for the

in the Olsztyn electoral district. However, he won a mandate in the 2023 parliamentary election, receiving 17,418 votes. As a result, on November 2 of the same year he ceased to serve as voivode.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chojecki, Artur People from Elbląg Living people 1974 births Law and Justice politicians Polish schoolteachers University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn alumni Members of the Polish Sejm 2023–2027 Voivodes of Poland