| Wacław Klukowski | |
| Office: | Member of the 4th Sejm of the Republic of Poland |
| Term Start: | 19 October 2001 |
| Term End: | 18 October 2005 |
| Party: | Law and Justice |
| Birth Date: | 14 April 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Pyrzyce, Poland |
Wacław Klukowski (born April 14, 1966, in Pyrzyce) is a Polish politician, government official, and farmer who served as a member of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland during the fourth convocation. He was also a councilor in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship.[1]
In 1986, he graduated from the Agricultural Mechanization Technical College in Pyrzyce, and in 2006, he completed studies in agribusiness at the University of Agriculture in Szczecin. Since 1986, he has been running his own agricultural farm. From 1998 to 2002, he served as the vice-chairman of the Association of Cereal Producers of the Pyrzyce Region.
In early 2006, he joined the Agricultural Property Agency, initially as the president's advisor and later as vice president. In September 2006, he was appointed acting president of the agency.[2] He was removed from his position at the APA after the return of Andrzej Lepper to Jarosław Kaczyński's government. In 2007, he assumed the position of chairman of the supervisory board of APA and later became the deputy director of a unit subordinate to KRUS (Agricultural Social Insurance Fund). In 2009, he became a member of the supervisory board of the Provincial Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management.
He was a member of the Solidarity RI trade union. In 1991, he joined the Trade Union of Agriculture "Self-Defense," and in 1996, he also joined the Self-Defense Alliance party (which operated from 2000 as Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland). He sat on its national council. In 2001, he was elected as a member of the fourth-term parliament from the Szczecin constituency (received 7914 votes). He joined the presidium of its parliamentary club and served on the State Treasury Committee and the European Union Affairs Committee.
On November 29, 2002, he left Self-Defense RP[3] and joined the Polish Peasant Bloc.[4] He served as the chairman of the regional authorities of this party.[5] In 2004, on behalf of the parliamentary group of PBL, he sat in the European Parliament. He was a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Parliament.[6] In the 2004 elections, he ran for the European Parliament from the League of Polish Families list as a representative of PBL[7] (received 3438 votes). In January 2005, he joined Law and Justice.[8] In the 2005 Polish parliamentary election, he did not secure a mandate from the list of this party (received 1795 votes).[9]
In the 2006 Polish local elections, he was elected to the West Pomeranian Voivodeship Sejmik. In May 2007, he left Law and Justice and the councilors' club of this party.[10] In 2009, he joined the councilors' club of Civic Platform. In the 2010 Polish local elections, he unsuccessfully ran for re-election to the regional council from the list of this party.[11] Later, he focused on creating the structures of the Poland Comes First (PJN) movement in the Szczecin region.[12] [13] In the 2011 Polish parliamentary election, he was the leader of the PJN list for the Sejm in the Koszalin constituency (received 934 votes).[14] After the decision to self-dissolve Poland Together (in December 2013), he co-founded Poland Together, becoming its plenipotentiary in the Pyrzyce County.[15] In March 2014, he left this movement, reactivating the Polish Peasants' Bloc (as an informal group), of which he became the president. On behalf of the PBL, he reached an agreement with Sovereign Poland before the European Parliament elections[16] and, as a result, was the candidate of this party in the Gorzów-Szczecin constituency (received 753 votes).[17] In the local elections in the same year, he unsuccessfully ran for the mayor of Pyrzyce (took the last, 8th place)[18] and for the council of the Pyrzyce county from the local committee.[19]
In the 2015 parliamentary elections, he unsuccessfully ran on the KORWiN party list for the Sejm.[20] He became one of the leaders of the registered in 2018 Peasant Party[21] and its candidate on the list of the coalition of SLD Lewica Razem for the regional council in the 2018 Polish local elections.[22] A few months later, he joined the informal council of the Agricultural-Consumer Confederation, operating within the Confederation Liberty and Independence.[23]
He is married and has two children.