Mirosław Mariusz Piotrowski (born 9 January 1966 in

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) is an

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and

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(MEP). He was originally elected in 2004 with the

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, then part of the

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grouping. At the 2009 election, he was re-elected for

Law and Justice Law and Justice ( , PiS) is a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist and National conservatism, national-conservative List of political parties in Poland, political party in Poland. The party is a member of European Conservatives and Refo ...

. He left Law and Justice in January 2012 and to sit as an independent MEP in the

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group, alongside Law and Justice, but became reconciled with his old party, to again become its representative for the 2014 European Parliamentary elections. Piotrowski was a member of the

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's Committee on Foreign Affairs. He was a substitute for the

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and a vice-chair of the Delegation for Relations with Australia and New Zealand. He participated in the

2020 Polish presidential election Presidential elections were held in Poland on 28 June 2020. As no candidate received a majority of the vote, a second round was held on 12 July, in which incumbent president Andrzej Duda, running with the support of the incumbent government of t ...

during which he received 21,065 votes (0.11%), coming last out of eleven candidates.https://wybory.gov.pl/prezydent20200628/pl/wyniki/pl (in Polish)

Education

* 2003: Masters (1990), Doctorate (1993),

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(KUL), assistant professor, Nicolas Copernicus University (2001) and associate professor KUL

Career

* 1994-2000: Scholarships from the Herder Institut (Germany),

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(Germany), Conference of German Academies of Sciences (Germany), the

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(Poland), and the University of Leuven (Belgium). * 2002: Prize of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland awarded to the qualifying thesis for an assistant professorship on the remigration of Poles from Germany 1918-1939 'Reemigracja Polaków z Niemiec 1918-1939'

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* * * 1966 births Living people People from Zielona Góra John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin alumni Law and Justice MEPs League of Polish Families MEPs MEPs for Poland 2004–2009 MEPs for Poland 2009–2014 MEPs for Poland 2014–2019 Candidates in the 2020 Polish presidential election {{Poland-MEP-stub