Dominik Tarczyński (born 27 March 1979) is a Polish politician and journalist, who has served as Member of the

European Parliament The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it ...

(MEP) since 2020 and was a member of the

Sejm The Sejm (), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (), is the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral parliament of Poland. The Sejm has been the highest governing body of the Third Polish Republic since the Polish People' ...

(MP) from 2015 to 2020.

Early life and career

Tarczyński was born 27 March 1979 in

Lublin Lublin is List of cities and towns in Poland, the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the centre of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin i ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

. From 2003 to 2008, he was a community animator at London's

Westminster Cathedral Westminster Cathedral, officially the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Most Precious Blood, is the largest Catholic Church in England and Wales, Roman Catholic church in England and Wales. The shrine is dedicated to the Blood of Jesus Ch ...

, and hosted a radio broadcast of

Christian music Christian music is a genre of music that has been written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christianity, Christian life and faith. Common themes of Christian music include praise, worship, penitence and lament, and its f ...

. He was a lay assistant to one of the British

exorcist In some religions, an exorcist (from the Greek „ἐξορκιστής“) is a person who is believed to be able to cast out the devil or performs the ridding of demons or other supernatural beings who are alleged to have possessed a person ...

s. From January 23, 2009, to February 1, 2010, he was the director of TVP3 Kielce; later, he was employed as the deputy director for operation in the IT and Telecommunications Centre of TVP. He also took up journalistic activity in the pages of ''

Gazeta Polska ''Gazeta Polska'' (Literal translation, lit.: ''Polish Newspaper'') is a Polish language pro-United Right (Poland), United Right right-wing populist to far-right weekly magazine published in Poland. Profile and history ''Gazeta Polsk''a was f ...

'' and created documentary films devoted to Christian topics. He directed the documentary film ''Colombia - Testimony to the World'', with the participation of the then-president of Colombia,

Álvaro Uribe Álvaro Uribe Vélez (born 4 July 1952) is a Colombian politician who served as the 31st President of Colombia from 7 August 2002 to 7 August 2010. Uribe started his political career in his home department of Antioquia Department, Antioquia. H ...

, which received an award at the Sixteenth International Catholic Film and Multimedia Festival in

Niepokalanów Niepokalanów monastery (so called ''City of the Immaculate Mother of God'') is a Roman Catholic religious community situated in Teresin, Sochaczew County, Teresin (near the Warsaw-Łowicz railway line, about 42 km to the west from the capital of ...

. He was the founder of the Association of Catholics Charismatics.

Political career

In 2010, he unsuccessfully ran for the Świętokrzyskie Sejm from the Law and Justice list. He then organised the structures of the Poland Is Most Important Association in

Kielce Kielce (; ) is a city in south-central Poland and the capital of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. In 2021, it had 192,468 inhabitants. The city is in the middle of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Holy Cross Mountains), on the banks of the Silnic ...

, but after a few weeks he left it. In 2011, he co-founded Solidarna Polska, which he left at the beginning of April 2014. In the same year, on the recommendation of the Right hand of the Republic of Poland, he again ran for the regional council from the PiS list. In the parliamentary elections in 2015, he ran for the Sejm as an independent candidate from the eleventh place on the Law and Justice list in the Kielce district. He was elected MP for the eighth term of office, receiving 7,475 votes. After the elections, he became a member of PiS. In the 2019 European Parliament elections, he was elected deputy of the ninth term. He received an additional mandate in the European Parliament, granted to Poland as part of the distribution of some of the mandates previously filled by

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...

. However, due to the delay in the

Brexit Brexit (, a portmanteau of "Britain" and "Exit") was the Withdrawal from the European Union, withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU). Brexit officially took place at 23:00 GMT on 31 January 2020 (00:00 1 February ...

procedure, this mandate was suspended. In the Polish parliamentary election of the same year, he was again elected to the Sejm, receiving 8,186 votes. On February 1, 2020, after Brexit took effect, he was seated as a member of the ninth European Parliament. In the 2024 European Parliament elections, he was again elected to European Parliament for its tenth term, receiving 210,942 votes.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tarczynski, Dominik Law and Justice MEPs Polish anti-communists Polish nationalists MEPs for Poland 2019–2024 MEPs for Poland 2024–2029 1979 births Living people Trumpism Politicians from Lublin John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin alumni