Zbigniew Ziobro
| Zbigniew Tadeusz Ziobro | |
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| Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland | |
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Assumed office November 16, 2015 |
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| President | Andrzej Duda |
| Prime Minister | Beata Szydło |
| Preceded by | Borys Budka |
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In office October 31, 2005 – November 16, 2007 |
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| President |
Aleksander Kwaśniewski Lech Kaczyński |
| Prime Minister |
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz Jarosław Kaczyński |
| Preceded by | Andrzej Kalwas |
| Succeeded by | Zbigniew Ćwiąkalski |
| Member of the European Parliament for Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie |
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In office 19 July 2009 – 2014 |
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| Personal details | |
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August 18, 1970 Kraków, Poland |
| Spouse(s) | Patrycja Kotecka |
| Children | (1 son) Jan |
Zbigniew Tadeusz Ziobro [ˈzbʲiɡɲɛf ˈʑɔbrɔ] (born August 18, 1970 in Kraków) is a Polish politician. He is the current Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland, as of November 2015, serving in the Cabinet of Beata Szydło. He previously served in the same role from October 2005 to November 2007, simultaneously serving as Public Prosecutor General. He was elected to the Sejm on September 25, 2005 in the 13th Kraków district, running on the Law and Justice list. He received over 120,000 votes in the parliamentary election, the highest percentage constituency result on a nationwide scale.
Ziobro graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of Jagiellonian University. He did not complete his PhD. He was a member of the Sejm from 2001-2005.
Due to his proclaimed "battle against corruption", he became one of the more popular, but also polarizing, politicians in Poland. His uncompromising approach and publicized prosecutions earned him the title Man of the year 2006, awarded by Wprost magazine. However, some of his policies were repeatedly characterized as partisan and overzealous by local and international press, including The Economist.
In 2007, former Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration Janusz Kaczmarek, allegedly linked to the Andrzej Lepper bribery case, was forced to resign. He subsequently made a series of attack on members of the government, especially Ziobro. In a media confrontation with vice-PM Andrzej Lepper, Ziobro revealed that he had secretly recorded a conversation with Lepper.
In the elections to the European Parliament in 2009, he was elected in the Kraków constituency as an MEP. He received 335 933 votes, representing the second highest score in the country.
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