Julia Teresa Pitera (), née Zakrzewska (), (born 26 May 1953 in

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) is a Polish politician of the Civic Platform.

Political career

Pitera was elected to the

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on 21 October 2007, getting 42,669 votes in 19 Płock district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list. She later served as Secretary of State at the Chancellery of

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Donald Tusk from 2007 to 2011, where she was in charge of the Central Anticorruption Bureau. Between 2012 and 2014, she chaired the Committee on Administration and Digitisation. She resigned from her parliamentary seat in 2014. Pitera was a

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from

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until 2019. During her time in parliament, she served on the

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. In addition, she was a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Integrity (Transparency, Anti-Corruption and Organized Crime); the European Parliament Intergroup on Sports; and of the MEP Heart Group (sponsored by the European Heart Network (EHN) and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)), a group of parliamentarians who have an interest in promoting measures that will help reduce the burden of

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s (CVD).

Other activities

* Transparency International Poland, Chair of the Board, 2001-2005) * Press Freedom Monitoring Centre, Member (2001-2005)

Political positions

In November 2017, Pitera joined a parliamentary majority by voting in favor of a resolution invoking

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, thereby potentially stripping Poland of voting rights in the EU for violating the common values of the bloc, including the rule of law. Shortly after, her political opponents had pictures of Pitera and five other Polish politicians strung from a makeshift gallows in a public square in

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.Joanna Berendt (November 27, 2017)
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References

External links

Julia Pitera - parliamentary page
- includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pitera, Julia 1953 births Living people Civic Platform politicians Politicians from Warsaw Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007 Members of the Polish Sejm 2007–2011 Councillors in Warsaw MEPs for Poland 2014–2019 Civic Platform MEPs Women MEPs for Poland Women members of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland

Political career

Other activities

Political positions

See also

References

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