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Polish politician
Sławomir Witold Nitras
[swa?v?mir
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(born 26 April 1973 in
Połczyn-Zdroj
) is a Polish
politician
, political scientist, member of
Civic Platform (PO)
and a member of the
Sejm
since 2015. He currently serves as
Minister of Sport and Tourism
.
Biography
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He was educated at the
University of Szczecin
, graduating in 1998 in Political Science from the Faculty of Humanities. From 1997 to 1998 he was employed as a lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Szczecin.
From 1998 to 1999 he was manager of the
Koszalin voivodeship
Governor's office, and in 1999 - 2002 sat on the Board of the Kruszywa Koszalin PLC mines. He spent the following three years running his own business.
From 1998 to 2002 he was a
Solidarity Election Action (AWS)
councillor in the
Western Pomeranian voivodeship
sejmik. He was elected a Civic Platform (PO) MP for
Szczecin
in the
2005 elections
getting 14238 votes in 41 Szczecin district and
2007 parliamentary elections
, gaining 65,993 votes (the highest individual number of votes in the constituency since 1989). During both terms in office he was a member of the Treasury Committee and in his second term he was also a member of the Economy Committee and the Accessible Government Extraordinary Committee.
He was elected to the European Parliament in
2009
for the Gorzow constituency, with 107,413 votes. He sits with the Group of the
European People's Party
(Christian Democrats) and is also a member of the
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
and of the delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. In 2014 he didn't seek re-election. On the 2 December in the same year he became the main adviser in
political cabinet
of Prime Minister
Ewa Kopacz
. In the
2015 parliamentary election
he became Member of Polish Parliament by 20 930 votes. He is the chairman of the delegation of the Sejm and Senate of Poland to the Parliamentary Assembly of the
OSCE
. In
2019 parliamentary election
he was reelected as a member of the Sejm with 78 513 votes.
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He ran for reelection once again in the
2023 parliamentary election
and was subsequently reelected, receiving 90,720 votes.
[2]
From 1991 to 1993 he was a member of the
Real Politics Union
, and from 1996 to 2001 belonged to the
Conservative People's Party
. Since 2001 he has been a member of
Civic Platform (PO)
and is a member of the National Executive. Since 2003 he has been the leader of
PO
in
Szczecin
, and since 2006 vice-chairman of the PO Regional Executive in
Western Pomerania
.
Personal life
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He is married to Irmina and has two daughters, Natalia and Kornelia.
See also
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