Paweł Kowal
| Paweł Kowal | |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 7 June 2009 |
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| Constituency | Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie |
| Member of the Sejm | |
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In office 25 September 2005 – 10 June 2009 |
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| Constituency | 12 – Chrzanów |
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| Born | 22 July 1975 Rzeszów |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Political party | Poland Together (2013-present) |
| Other political affiliations |
Poland Comes First (2010–13) Law and Justice (2005–2010) |
| Website | www.pawelkowal.pl/ |
Paweł Kowal (born 22 July 1975 in Rzeszów) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for Poland Together. He is currently Chairman of the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee in the European Parliament.
Kowal was elected to the Sejm in the 2005 election for Law and Justice, from the 12 – Chrzanów district. He won re-election in 2007.
In 2009, he ran for the European Parliament in the Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie constituency, including Chrzanów. He came second amongst PiS candidates, behind Zbigniew Ziobro, taking the second Law and Justice seat won. He resigned his seat in the Sejm three days later.
During the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election Kowal was the head of the delegation of the European Parliament's observers. He joined Poland Comes First when that party split from Law and Justice in 2010. In December 2013, he joined the new centre-right Poland Together party formed by Jarosław Gowin, the former minister of justice, formerly of Civic Platform.
Pawel Robert Kowal graduated from Fr. Stanisław Konarski High School in Rzeszow. Kowal graduated from the Faculty of History at the Jagiellonian University in 1999. He studied at Collegium Invisibile in Warsaw between 1996 and 1998 under Professor Krystyna Kersten. While there, he participated in study abroad programs in Russia in Yakutia, Buryatia, and Khakassia. In 1999, he became an assistant at the Institute of Political Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences. There Kowal defended his doctoral thesis Politics of General Wojciech Jaruzelski's administration 1986-1989. Attempts at political system reform in January 2011.
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