Janusz Palikot
| Janusz Palikot | |
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| Chairperson of the Your Movement | |
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Assumed office 6 October 2013 |
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| Preceded by | office established |
| Chairperson of the Palikot's Movement | |
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In office 2 July 2011 – 6 October 2013 |
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| Preceded by | office established |
| Succeeded by | office abolished |
| Member of the Sejm | |
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In office 19 October 2005 – 15 September 2015 |
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| Constituency | 6 – Lublin |
| Personal details | |
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October 26, 1964 Biłgoraj, Poland |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Political party | Your Movement (2013-present) |
| Other political affiliations |
Palikot's Movement (2011-2013) Civic Platform (2005–2010) |
Janusz Marian Palikot ([ˈjanuʂ paˈlikɔt], born 26 October 1964 in Biłgoraj) is a Polish politician, activist and businessman. Palikot studied philosophy and became wealthy as a businessman who dealt with crates and distilled beverages (dealt with international trade with tax havens in the Polish privatization period). He was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005 in the 6 Lublin district, running on the Civic Platform list, and was reelected in 2007.
Palikot left Civic Platform in 2010 and founded Movement of Support, later renamed Palikot's Movement, an anti-clerical and liberal party, which won 10 percent of the vote in the 2011 parliamentary election.
Palikot studied Philosophy at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and earned a master's degree at Warsaw University. He is an entrepreneur and former co-owner of Polmos Lublin S.A. (a vodka business) and Ambra S.A. He is divorced from his first wife, Maria Nowińska, with whom he has two sons, Emil and Aleksander; he has since married Monika Kubat, with whom he has a son, Franciszek, and a daughter, Zofia.
Palikot is known in Poland for being one of the more colourful and controversial politicians, famous for his publicity stunts. In April 2007 during a PO press conference, Palikot wore a T-shirt with "I am with the SLD" ("Jestem z SLD") on the front and "I am gay" ("Jestem gejem") on the back. He later stated that he wanted to highlight the role PO should play in contemporary politics - as defenders of minorities.
On 24 April 2007, he produced a gun and a dildo at a press conference about alleged rape by a few police officers from Lublin. Palikot presented the objects as modern "symbols of law and justice" (a pun referring to the socially conservative Law and Justice Party) in Poland and the Lublin's police.
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