Jakub Hardie-Douglas (born 1982) is a Polish politician and businessperson. He was a member of the

West Pomeranian Voivodeship Sejmik The West Pomeranian Voivodeship Sejmik () is the regional legislature of the Voivodeship of West Pomerania in Poland. It is a unicameral parliamentary body consisting of thirty councillors chosen during regional elections for a five-year term. T ...

from 2018 to 2024.

Biography

Jakub Hardie-Douglas was born in 1982 in

Szczecinek Szczecinek (; ) is a historic city in Middle Pomerania, northwestern Poland, capital of Szczecinek County in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, with a population of more than 40,000 (2011). The town's total area is . The turbulent history of Szcze ...

. He is

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descent. His father is

Jerzy Hardie-Douglas Jerzy Hardie-Douglas (born 1 February 1951) is a politician and surgeon. He was a mayor of Szczecinek from 2006 to 2018, and again since 2024, and a member of the Sejm of Poland from 2018 to 2023. Biography Jerzy Hardie-Douglas was born on 1 Fe ...

, a politician who was a member of the

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from 2019 to 2023, and the mayor of Szczecinek from 2006 to 2018, and again since 2024. He graduated from the Faculty of the Geographical and Geological Sciences of the

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, and later lived and worked in

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, United Kingdom. After moving back to Poland, he began working in a Poznań-based advertising agency and, later, in a

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. He eventually started his own advertising agency. He belongs to 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 ...

party. From 2014 to 2018 he was a member of the

Szczecinek County __NOTOC__ Szczecinek County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms pa ...

Council, and from 2018 to 2024, a member of the

. In 2024 he was again elected to the Szczecinek County Council.

Controversies

In 2019, he was sued for

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by Jacek Pawłowicz and was ordered to pay him 10,000 Polish złoties in damages, and donate as much to a hospice in Szczecinek. Douglas-Hardie was sued after he published an article in which he accused Pawłowicz, a local political opponent and member of the rival

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party, of political corruption. He also claimed that him recently becoming a deputy director of a spa company in

Połczyn-Zdrój Połczyn-Zdrój (; ) is a town in Świdwin County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, with 8,372 inhabitants (2010). It is situated on the Wogra River in the historic region of Pomerania. History Połczyn-Zdrój dates back to an early medie ...

was due to his party membership, and accused him of lacking sufficient qualifications. Such claims were found to be false by the court in

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References

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