Artur Warzocha Explained

Artur Warzocha
Office:Member of Senate
Term Start:2015
Term End:2019
Birth Date:11 November 1969
Birth Place:Piotrków Trybunalski
Party:Law and Justice
Predecessor:Andrzej Szewiński
Successor:Wojciech Konieczny
Constituency:69-Częstochowa

Artur Ryszard Warzocha (born 11 November 1969, in Piotrków Trybunalski) is a Polish politician, local official, first deputy voivode of Silesia (2006–2007), Senator of the Senate of the Republic of Poland since 2015.

Biography

He graduated from the Faculty of Pedagogy of the Pedagogical University in Częstochowa, and completed post-graduate studies at the Warsaw School of Economics. He became an academic teacher at the Institute of Political Sciences of the Jan Długosz University.

In 1998 and in 2002 he was elected to a Częstochowa City Council.[1] In 2009, without success, he ran for the European Parliament.[2] In 2010, he was elected a councilor of the Silesian Regional Assembly of the 4th term.[3]

He joined Law and Justice. In 2011, he applied unsuccessfully for the Senate's mandate.[4] In 2014, he was a candidate of Law and Justice in the elections for the office of President of Częstochowa, but he was not elected to this seat.[5] In the parliamentary election in 2015, he was once again from the PiS party to the Senate from the district of Częstochowa, this time obtaining the mandate of a senator.[6]

In 2018 he was once again the candidate of his party for the presidency of Częstochowa in the local elections, but he did not get a choice for this function.[7]

In 2019 he lost the mandate of a senator in the district of Częstochowa.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Państwowa Komisja Wyborcza: Wybory samorządowe. wybory2002.pkw.gov.pl. 2019-01-19.
  2. Web site: Wybory do Parlamentu Europejskiego 2009. pe2009.pkw.gov.pl. 2019-01-19.
  3. Web site: Wybory Samorządowe 2010 - Geografia wyborcza - Województwo śląskie. wybory2010.pkw.gov.pl. 2019-01-19.
  4. Web site: Wybory 2011 - Wyniki gÅ'osowania. wybory2011.pkw.gov.pl. 2019-01-19.
  5. Web site: Prawo i Sprawiedliwość. old.pis.org.pl. 2019-01-19. 1 June 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190601225551/http://old.pis.org.pl/article.php?id=23188. dead.
  6. Web site: PKW Wybory do Sejmu RP i Senatu RP. parlament2015.pkw.gov.pl. 2019-01-19.
  7. Web site: Wybory samorządowe 2018. wybory2018.pkw.gov.pl. 2019-01-19.
  8. Web site: Wybory do Sejmu i Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 2019 r.. wybory.gov.pl. pl. 2019-10-18.