Jacek Kurski
Jacek Olgierd Kurski ( born February 22, 1966 in Gdańsk ) is a Polish journalist, politician. He was from 2005 to 2009 Member of the Sejm in the V. and VI. Legislature, and since 2009 MEP.
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Life
He is the son of Anna Kurska, an activist of the oppositional Solidarity and former Senator and brother Jarosław Kurski, a journalist of Gazeta Wyborcza. He finished his studies of foreign trade at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Gdansk. He worked in television, published articles in the independent and right-wing press, including in Tygodnik Solidarity ( Solidarność weekly magazine ). He is co-author of the books Lewy czerwcowy and the film based on it Nocna zmiana, acting both the dismissal of the government of Jan Olszewski in June 1992.
Political activity
In the 1980s, the opposition was active and a member of Solidarity.
After 1989 he was associated with many right-wing parties. At the beginning of the 90 years he worked in the Catholic right-wing conservative Porozumienie Centrum ( center - agreement - PC), headed by Jarosław Kaczyński. In 1993 he took part before the parliamentary elections in 1993 in the election campaign of the PC. In January 1993 he published with Piotr Semka written book Lewy czerwcowy, a transcript of interviews with politicians, who were connected with the government of Jan Olszewski, about the reasons behind the dismissal of the government in June 1992. A year later, he realized the film Nocna treated zmiana having the same issue.
After the mid-1990s, he collaborated with Jan Olszewski and joined the founded by former Prime Ruch Odbudowy Polski (Movement of rebuilding Poland - ROP) at. He was active in the 1995 presidential campaign, after which he took over the office of the Press Secretary of the ROP. He called for cooperation with the Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność ( Solidarity coalition - AWS) from, at the same time he criticized their approach to the Unia Wolności ( Freedom Union - UW). In the parliamentary elections in 1997, he applied unsuccessfully to obtain a parliamentary mandate as leader of the list of ROP in the province Danzig.
After this defeat, he left the ROP and stood at the head of a breakaway that party ( the so-called " Stowarzyszenie ROP " - Association ROP), after which he resigned shortly the Zjednoczenie Chrześcijańsko - Narodowe (Christian- National Association - ZChN ), which is the AWS joined. In 1998 he was a Member of the Parliament of the Pomorskie ( Pomeranian Voivodeship ) Province. In the years 1998-2001 he took over the office of the Deputy Marshal of the voivodeship. In the parliamentary elections of 2001 he was a candidate on the list of Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność Prawicy (AWS "rights" - AWSP ) for the constituency of Toruń. In the same constituency of former Agriculture Minister Jacek Janiszewski should run for office. Shortly before the submission of the list when the Electoral Commission added Kurski the list without consultation with another person of the same surname before Janiszewski. Because manipulating the electoral list Kurski was withdrawn by the ZChN as a candidate.
After the electoral defeat of the AWSP he joined the Prawo i Sprawiedliwość ( Law and Justice - PiS) at. However, he was not given a place on the list for the local elections of 2002, after which he left the PiS and the League Polskich Rodzin ( League of Polish Families - LPR) joined. As a candidate of the LPR, he was re-elected as an MP in the Parliament of the Province of Pomerania. He was Deputy Chairman of the Sejmik. He was also a candidate of the LPR for the office of mayor of Danzig, but did not succeed in the second ballot. He was the author of the decisive campaign of the LPR program for elections to the European Parliament. In 2004, he got into a conflict with the leader of the LPR in Pomerania, Robert Strąk, and resigned from this party. He then joined again at the PiS.
In the 2005 parliamentary elections, he was elected on the list of PiS for the electoral district of Gdansk in the Sejm.
After re- approximation of Jacek Kurski to the PiS in 2004, he was primarily supported by Jarosław Kaczyński, Lech Kaczyński while across from him at first behaved negatively. Ultimately, however, he took him into his campaign staff for the 2005 presidential election.
Jacek Kurski organized, among others, the election campaign Congress of the PiS in the spring of 2005, and also changed the logo of the party. Before the second round of the presidential elections, he was the weekly magazine " Angora " an interview in which he claimed that was " joined as a volunteer in the Wehrmacht after serious sources in Pomerania the grandfather of Donald Tusk ."
As a consequence, he was removed from the campaign staff of Lech Kaczyński. Then, on 13 October 2005, its membership rights were suspended by a decision of the Court of the PiS party. A few days later, however, showed that Tusk's grandfather was in fact in the Wehrmacht, but due to forced recruitment. On November 14, decided on the appeal Kurskis towards the Party Court for the cancellation of the prior decision to put him back into his full membership rights and limited the punishment to a reprimand.
The Sejmwahlen 2007 Jacek Kurski won for the PiS with 23,585 votes for the second time a deputy's mandate. He was vice chairman of the Sejm Commission for the State Treasury.
In the European elections in 2009, he was elected to the European Parliament. This ended on 10 June 2009 its membership in the Sejm. On November 4, 2011, he was expelled along with Zbigniew Ziobro and another of the party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość.
He is a critic of what he called post -communist and liberal circles - including former Congress Liberalno - Demokratyczny ( Liberal Democratic Congress - KLD ) and the UW, or today's Platforma Obywatelska ( Civic Platform - PO). He has frequently spoken out against the coalition negotiations, the PiS with the PO after the Sejmwahlen 2005 In public statements. He also criticized the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, for which his brother Jarosław Kurski works.
Legal proceedings
On 13 June 2006, he blamed on Polish television the PO and the Election Committee by Donald Tusk, that the election campaign had been financed before the Sejm and presidential elections in 2005 with funds obtained from illegal means of the largest Polish insurance group Powszechny Zakład Ubezpieczeń ( PZU ) should. The Regional Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw presented in December 2006, the proceedings in this case because of factual unfounded one. In response to the allegations, the PO Jacek Kurski sued for libel and sought an apology in the media and payment of 100,000 PLN in favor of charity. On 3 April 2007, the Regional Court in Warsaw issued a ruling that Kurski had to apologize over Tusk in the newspaper Rzeczpospolita and Gazeta Wyborcza and on the television TVN i TVP and pay 15,000 zloty for the benefit of Caritas Polska.