Marek Jurek
| Marek Jurek | |
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| Marshal of the Sejm | |
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In office 26 October 2005 – 27 April 2007 |
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| President |
Aleksander Kwaśniewski Lech Kaczyński |
| Prime Minister |
Marek Belka Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz Jarosław Kaczyński |
| Preceded by | Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz |
| Succeeded by | Ludwik Dorn |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 1 July 2014 |
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| Personal details | |
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28 June 1960 Gorzów Wielkopolski, People's Republic of Poland |
| Political party | Right of the Republic |
| Spouse(s) | Izabela Jurek |
| Children | 4 |
| Profession | Historian |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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Marek Jurek (Polish pronunciation: [ˈmarɛk ˈjurɛk]; 28 June 1960 in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland) is right-wing politician and a Member of the European Parliament. Since 20 April 2007 he has been the leader of the aspirant party Right of the Republic, which does not have any members in the Parliament of Poland.
He is a graduate in history from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In the 1980s he was an activist in the anti-communist movement in Poland. After the fall of the communism in 1989, he was one of the founders of the now defunct political party Christian National Union. He was a deputee in the Contract Sejm and later in the Sejm of the Republic of Poland from 1991 to 1993.
From 1995 to 2001 he was a member of the National Broadcasting Council.
In 2001, he was elected a deputee of the Sejm again, this time as a member of the Law and Justice party. On 26 October 2005 he was elected a Sejm marshal (parliament speaker) nominated by Law and Justice with 265 votes (133 votes were given to Bronisław Komorowski from Civic Platform). On 13 April 2007 he resigned from the post, following the Sejm's failure to amend the Constitution to protect prenatal life. On the following day, he left Law and Justice to found his own party, now known as the Right of the Republic. His resignation was accepted on 27 April 2007.
In the parliamentary election in 2007 his party did not win any seats in the Parliament as it found itself below the election threshold. On 22 June 2008 Marek Jurek took part in a by-election to the Senate, held in Krosno-constituency following the death of Senator Andrzej Mazurkiewicz. With 10 751 votes, he gained the third place after the winner Stanisław Zając (Law and Justice) and Maciej Lewicki (Civic Platform). As there was only one seat available in the Senate, Marek Jurek remains outside the Parliament.
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