Jakub Kulesza (born 12 November 1990) is a Polish politician and a former Member of Parliament. Kulesza studied electronics, computer science and telecommunications at the

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. He was employed in enterprise computing. Kulesza organized the

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of the

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, which operated until 2009. Since 2010, he is associated with KoLiber, serving as president from 2012 to 2013. He was also president of the Progressive Foundation. In the parliamentary elections in 2015, Kulesza ran for the

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in the

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district as leader of the

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list. He was elected with 15,058 votes. Kulesza was the spokesman for the Kukiz'15 parliamentary caucus. In October 2018, he resigned from the position and became a member of

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's political party, Liberty. This allowed him to get reelected in 2019. In 2022, he was one of the 3 Confederation MPs to leave the KORWiN coalition due to its stance on Russia. Their new party is called Wolnościowcy.

Personal life

Kulesza is married with Katarzyna; they have two sons: Leszek and Janusz.

References

1990 births Confederation Liberty and Independence politicians Living people Members of the Polish Sejm 2019–2023 Politicians from Lublin Polish anti-abortion activists Warsaw University of Technology alumni {{Poland-Sejm-politician-stub