Michał Kołodziejczak

Michał Kołodziejczak
Michał Kołodziejczak in 2023
Deputy Minister of Agriculture
Assumed office
13 December 2023
Preceded byJanusz Kowalski
Member of the Sejm
Assumed office
13 November 2023
ConstituencyKonin
Personal details
Born (1988-09-14) 14 September 1988 (age 36)[1]
Sieradz, Poland
Political partyAGROunia (2018–present)
Other political
affiliations
Law and Justice (2014–2015)
Alma materKazimierz Jagiellończyk School
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Michał Kołodziejczak (born 14 September 1988) is a Polish politician and founder of AGROunia.

Early life

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Kołodziejczak started working as a farmer after graduating from Kazimierz Jagiellończyk School in Sieradz.[2]

Political career

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In 2014, Kołodziejczak was elected as a councilor of Błaszki, Łódź Voivodeship, but excluded from the party one year later due to organizing protests. In 2018, he established the Unia Warzywno-Ziemniaczana association, which organised protests of the agricultural community against the PiS government's policy on the fight against the African swine fever virus, and against low purchase prices of agricultural produce in the Łódź Voivodeship.[3] The same year on 7 December, Kołodziejczak registered the AGROunia Foundation.[4]

In June 2019, Kołodziejczak announced the establishment of the Prawda Political Party,[5] after which he announced that it would adopt the name Zgoda.[6] He did not become a member of the party and withdrew from the project in August 2019.[7]

In August 2023, Szymon Hołownia of Poland 2050 rejected the possibility of Kołodziejczak running together with RS Agrounia TAK in the parliamentary elections from the lists of the Trzecia Droga coalition.[8] Kołodziejczak ran as a member of the Civic Coalition instead. In the 2023 parliamentary election he was elected to the Sejm from the Konin constituency, receiving 44,062 votes.[9]

Personal life

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Kołodziejczak is married with one daughter.[10] On 25 January 2022, Citizen Lab reported that his mobile phone was under surveillance using Pegasus spy software.[11]

References

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  1. ^ "Michał Kołodziejczak: kim jest założyciel Agrounii i lider protestu rolników? Partia, wiek majątek" (in Polish). radiozet.pl. 5 February 2019. Archived from the original on 14 December 2021.
  2. ^ Szpyrka, Łukasz (3 December 2021). "Michał Kołodziejczak: Chcę być premierem". interia.pl (in Polish).
  3. ^ "AGROunia". onet.pl (in Polish).
  4. ^ "Fundacja AGROunia". onet.pl (in Polish).
  5. ^ ""Polska chce prawdy" Lider AGROunii zakłada partię polityczną". rp.pl (in Polish). 16 June 2019.
  6. ^ ""Zgoda jest potrzebna Polsce". Prezes AGROunii zarejestrował partię". rdc.pl (in Polish). 25 July 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  7. ^ "Zamieszanie wokół partii Zgoda. Lider domagał się pieniędzy za start?". agropolska.pl (in Polish). 23 August 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  8. ^ Opas, Radosław (5 August 2023). "Odrzucili Kołodziejczaka. Nie zostawia suchej nitki na Hołowni". wiadomosci.wp.pl (in Polish).
  9. ^ "Wybory do Sejmu i Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w 2023 r." wybory.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-11-11.
  10. ^ "Michał Kołodziejczak w Salon24: Miałbym już dwa albo trzy samochody gdyby nie polityka". salon24.pl (in Polish). 9 December 2021.
  11. ^ "Citizen Lab: kolejne dwie osoby szpiegowane Pegasusem w Polsce. W tym gronie lider Agrounii Michał Kołodziejczak". tvn24.pl (in Polish). 25 January 2022.