Michał Piotr Woś (born 7 November 1991) is a Polish politician of

Sovereign Poland Sovereign Poland (, SP), also known as United Poland (; alternatively translated to Solidarity Poland), until 2023, was a Catholic-nationalist political party in Poland led by Zbigniew Ziobro. It was founded in 2012, as the Catholic-nationalist ...

serving as a member of the

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. He was first elected in the 2019 parliamentary election, and was re-elected in

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. He served as deputy minister of justice from 2017 to 2018, minister for humanitarian aid in 2019,

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from 2019 to 2020, minister of environment in 2020, and secretary of state in the Ministry of Justice from 2020 to 2023. In May 2020, as environment minister Wos announced that the Polish government was considering a law to require NGOs to disclose foreign funding, because "Poles have a right to know whether they are indeed organisations that work in the interests of Poles". The proposed law was criticized by the opposition; critics argued that the government was trying to suppress criticism.

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