Krzysztof Adam Matyjaszczyk (born 27 May 1974,

Radomsko Radomsko () is a city in southern Poland with 44,700 inhabitants (2021). It is situated on the Radomka river in the Łódź Voivodeship. It is the county seat of Radomsko County. Founded in the 11th century, Radomsko is a former royal city located ...

) is a

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, Member of the

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(2007-2010), local official, since 2010 president of

Częstochowa Częstochowa ( , ) is a city in southern Poland on the Warta with 214,342 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship. However, Częstochowa is historically part of Lesser Poland, not Si ...

Life and career

He graduated from construction and management at the

Częstochowa University of Technology Częstochowa University of Technology () is the largest and oldest institution of higher education in Częstochowa, Poland. All faculties of the university have the right to grant doctoral degrees (currently over 300 post-graduate students), and ...

. He is a member of the

Democratic Left Alliance Democratic Left Alliance may refer to: * Democratic Left Alliance (Poland) The Democratic Left Alliance () was a social democracy, social-democratic list of political parties in Poland, political party in Poland. It was formed on 9 July 1991 as ...

. In the years 2002-2007 he was a member of the City Council of Częstochowa, serving as vice-chairman. In the parliamentary election in 2005, from the list of SLD, he ran without success to the Sejm. In the local government elections in 2006 from

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, he ran for the presidency of Czestochowa, taking 3rd place out of 6 candidates (obtained 14,683 votes, which was 20.83%). In the parliamentary election in 2007, he was elected an MP, running from the LiD list in the Częstochowa constituency and receiving 16,432 votes. In the local government elections in 2010, he started again as a SLD candidate for the office of President of Częstochowa. In the first round, he obtained 35,045 (45.83%) votes. He moved to the second round with Izabela Leszczyna from the PO, who received 16 815 votes (21.99%). In the second round, he obtained a score of 33,696 (70.89%) of the votes against 13,840 (29.11%) of votes for his opponent. In the local government elections in 2014, he successfully applied for re-election, receiving in the second round 56.72% of the votes and defeating the PiS candidate - Artur Warzocha. In 2018 local elections he was elected for the next term in the first round, obtaining 59.76% of votes.

Reforms and political views

Krzysztof Matyjaszczyk is a politician with

liberal Liberal or liberalism may refer to: Politics * Generally, a supporter of the political philosophy liberalism. Liberals may be politically left or right but tend to be centrist. * An adherent of a Liberal Party (See also Liberal parties by country ...

leftist Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy either as a whole or of certain social hierarchies. Left-wing politi ...

views, but against the background of his own party he is a politician with very

moderate Moderate is an ideological category which entails centrist views on a liberal-conservative spectrum. It may also designate a rejection of radical or extreme views, especially in regard to politics and religion. Political position Canad ...

and

centrist Centrism is the range of political ideologies that exist between left-wing politics and right-wing politics on the left–right political spectrum. It is associated with moderate politics, including people who strongly support moderate policie ...

views. He is a proponent of ruling a city in a coalition with a Civic Coalition. As Mayor, Matyjaszczyk introduced funding program for

in vitro fertilisation In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process of fertilisation in which an ovum, egg is combined with spermatozoon, sperm in vitro ("in glass"). The process involves monitoring and stimulating the Ovulation cycle, ovulatory process, then removing ...

. He supports to create

Częstochowa Voivodeship Częstochowa Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 1975 to 1998, superseded mainly by Silesian Voivodeship, with a few gminas attached to surrounding voivodeships. Though most of the current ter ...

again.

References

External links

Krzysztof Matyjaszczyk official page

Krzysztof Matyjaszczyk private Homepage
1974 births People from Częstochowa Living people Democratic Left Alliance politicians Mayors of Częstochowa Members of the Polish Sejm 2007–2011 Members of the Polish Sejm 2015–2019 People from Radomsko New Left (Poland) politicians {{Poland-Sejm-politician-stub