Zbigniew Ziobro
Zbigniew Ziobro ( born August 18, 1970 in Kraków ) is a Polish politician and lawyer, was a member of the Sejm in the IV, V and VI. Election period. Furthermore, he was on 31 October 2005 to 7 September 2007 and 11 September 2007 to 16 November 2007 Minister of Justice and Attorney-General in the government of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and Jarosław Kaczyński.
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Childhood and youth
He is the son of Jerzy and Krystyna Ziobro. His childhood and school days he spent in Krynica -Zdrój. His father was director of the Krynicer sanatorium and was a member of the PZPR, but was also a member of the opposition Solidarity trade union since 1980.
Training
In 1994, he earned a degree at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
After graduating, he graduated from the legal application for prosecutors at the county prosecutor's office of Katowice and was in 1997 the exam for prosecutors. However, he has never worked as a prosecutor.
Political activity
In the second half of the 1990s, he published among others in the Rzeczpospolita a few articles on the subject of criminal law and criminal justice policy.
In 1997, he created a legal opinion for the fraction Wyborcza Solidarność Akcja (AWS ) for the decision of the army prosecutor regarding the termination of the proceedings against Colonel Ryszard Kukliński, who was sentenced to death in the People's Republic.
After graduating, he worked in the years 1998-2000 in the General Customs inspection. After that, he was an advisor to the Interior Minister Marek Biernacki.
In 1999 he founded together with Witold Gadowski in Krakow the association " Katon ", the objectives of which include, among others, to care for victims of crime. He also participated in the work on the program "Safe Krakow" part, which was adopted by the City Council of the City of Krakow in 1999. He is the author of a project to amend the Criminal Code, whose main concern is the tightening of the penalty for the most serious crimes.
From March to July 2001, he was Under Secretary in the Ministry of Justice and one of the then Minister Lech Kaczynski 's closest collaborators. He left the Justice Department after the resignation of Kaczyński.
Since 2001 he is a functionary of the Law and Justice Party (Polish: Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS). In the same year he was elected as an MP from the constituency Krakow in the Sejm. He sat in the Committee of Inquiry into the so-called Rywin affair, and was the author of a report, according to which the responsibility for the irregularities concerning the amendment of the law for the public media, the Prime Minister Leszek Miller, the Deputy Minister of Culture Aleksandra Jakubovska, Minister Lech Nikolski, the chairman of the Polish public television ( TVP) Robert Kwiatkowski and carry the secretary of the Polish state media authority Włodzimierz Czarzasty. They were attributed to the so called " group that holds the power in the hands " ( grupa trzymająca władzę ). On 24 September 2004, the Sejm adopted the report as a definitive final report of the committee of inquiry.
In the local elections of 27 October 2002 he was a candidate of the PiS for the post of Mayor of Krakow, but he did not even make it to the runoff.
In 2005, he won again the Sejmwahlen a parliamentary mandate for the electoral district of Cracow, scoring the greatest number of votes in this constituency. He was also chief of staff for the presidential campaign of Lech Kaczyński in the same year.
In the European elections in 2009, he was elected to the European Parliament.
MEP
Ziobro is a member of the Group in the EU Parliament Europe of freedom and democracy, he is in the following committees and delegations Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and the Delegation for relations with the United States. Deputy, he is in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, the special committee on organized crime, corruption and money laundering and in the Delegation to the ACP -EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
Minister of Justice
On 31 October 2005 he was appointed Minister of Justice in the government of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz. He remained in this function also in the Cabinet Jarosław Kaczyński.
In 2006 awarded the title "Man of the Year" by the weekly magazine Wprost was awarded.
On 14 February 2007 shared Ziobro and the head of the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (Polish: Centralne Biuro Antykorupcyjne, CBA) Mariusz Kaminski at a specially convened press conference, the circumstances of the arrest of the chief of cardiac surgery clinic of the Hospital of Ministry of Interior Mirosław G. and informed that the doctor accusations of corruption and manslaughter are made in 20 cases. On May 7, 2007, this arrest was legally declared unlawful and set against a Mirosław G. on bail. The court considered it proven that the charge of manslaughter was not demonstrated.
Shortly after his release in connection with the so -called " Land Affair " In August 2007, accused Janusz Kaczmarek, the former Minister of the Interior in the cabinet Jarosław Kaczyński, Ziobro of the illegal wiretapping of journalists and politicians, of the abuse of the prosecution for political purposes and political opponents.
The opposition factions in the Sejm called on the resignation of Ziobro from his offices. On 29 August 2007 the deputies of the SLD presented the request to provide Ziobro before the State Tribunal; on this motion was never decided.
On September 7, 2007, he was relieved at the request of the Prime Minister by the President from his position and became the function of a vice minister in the Ministry of Justice. On 11 September 2007 but was re-appointed Minister of Justice and Attorney General.
In the elections to the Sejm in 2007, he won again the largest number of votes in the electoral district of Krakow. On 12 January 2008 he was elected deputy chairman of PiS.
Controversies surrounding parliamentary immunity
In December 2005 Ziobro had the prosecutor Wojciech Miłoszewski who worked the process for so-called " fuel mafia" instructed to submit investigation files for inspection by the PiS chairman Jarosław Kaczyński. 2008, the county prosecutor Płock in this context, the application to the Ministry of Justice, Ziobros deputies immunity because repeal of suspicion of abuse of office by passing on prosecutorial investigation results to unauthorized persons .. on September 3, 2008 Ziobro waived its immunity in this regard.
In July 2011, the Tagesspiegel reported that Ziobro was stopped by the Bavarian police in court in February 2011, because he was traveling at excessive speed and with two different license plates on the A9. Ziobro have to rely on his diplomatic immunity as a MEP, after any investigation was set and he was able to continue his journey.
Ziobro himself had to the Internet portal Onet.pl explain that he did not invoke his immunity, but should merely be reported as usual with his diplomatic passport because he was on a business trip as an MP. In particular, he did the search of the vehicle led by him approved by the police, for which he was not required due to its immunity. Among the different indicator Ziobro explained that he had borrowed the car from its holder, who had a month earlier approved it in Belgium. In Belgium, one of the two license plates shall be issued by the licensing authority, the other should the holder itself can customize at a private embossed point. It must be an employee of the embossed point made a mistake, which is why the later -built shield differed in a character from the original. He himself had " as a average driver " of a borrowed vehicle not previously examined whether all numbers and letters are the same on both signs. He also denied being driven too fast; it was to police control of the question.
After the elections of October 9, 2011 Zbigniew Ziobro expressed criticism of the strategy of the PiS and Kaczyński party leader. He was then ruled on November 4, together with three other politicians from the party and formed with them a new grouping with the name Solidary Poland.