Krzysztof Gawkowski
Leader of The Left parliamentary club
Assumed office
12 November 2019
Personal details
Born11 April 1980
Warsaw, Poland
Political partyDemocratic Left Alliance (2000-2018)
Spring (2019–2021)
New Left (since 2021)
Other political
affiliations		The Left (since 2019)
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw

Krzysztof Kamil Gawkowski (born 11 April 1980, Warsaw) is a Polish politician and writer.[1]

Associated with Democratic Left Alliance, Spring, since 2019 he is a leader of The Left parliamentary club. He is a member of the Sejm (9th term).[2]

Memoir

Gawkowski grew up in Wołomin, Poland.[3] He graduated law at University of Warsaw[4] and in 2006 graduated in political studies at University of Communication and Social Media in Warsaw. He declares he is a Catholic.[5]

Politics

As a teenager in the 1990s he was a member of the Young Social Democrats Federation.,[6] and at 20, he joined the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), the then-dominant party in Poland.[1] In 2002 and 2004 he was a councillor in the town of Wołomin, near Warsaw.[1] At the 2010 Polish local elections he was elected at the Masovian Regional Assembly for SLD.[1] The next year he was a candidate for Parliament (Sejm).

In 2016 he was appointed as co-leader of the Democratic Left Alliance.[4] However, after almost twenty years he gave up his affiliation with the Alliance.[7]

In 2019, Gawkowski started to cooperate with Robert Biedroń who headed the left-wing umbrella party Lewica. In May he was a candidate to the European Parliament but was not one of the 3 left-wing candidates elected.[8] However in October of the same year, he was a candidate to the Sejm for the Bydgoszcz constituency in the North-West, and was elected (see List of 9th term Sejm MPs). He was appointed Leader of the parliamentary club.

In 2023 parliamentary elections he successfully ran for reelection after he received 21,831 votes.[9]

Writer

He has written a few poetic and academic books.

Poetry

  • "Cień Przeszłości", Warszawska Firma Wydawnicza, Warszawa 2018, ISBN 978-83-7805-359-0[10]
  • "Piętno prawdy", Warszawska Firma Wydawnicza, Warszawa 2010, ISBN 978-83-61748-44-1[11]

Academic books

  • "Obudzić państwo", Warszawska Firma Wydawnicza, Warszawa 2015, ISBN 978-83-7805-339-2[12]
  • "Cyberkolonializm", Helion, Gliwice 2018, ISBN 978-83-283-4801-1[13]
  • "Administracja samorządowa w teorii i praktyce", Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, Toruń 2017, ISBN 978-83-8019-757-2[14]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Krzysztof Gawkowski -". MamPrawoWiedziec.pl. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  2. ↑ "Krzysztof Gawkowski". www.sejm.gov.pl. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  3. ↑ Grzędziński (AIP), Dariusz (26 July 2015). "Książę z Wołomina. Krzysztof Gawkowski i jego walka o jedność na lewicy [SYLWETKA]". Portal I.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  4. 1 2 "Wyborcza.pl". wyborcza.pl. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  5. ↑ "Gawkowski: Jestem katolikiem, lewicowcem, będę chodził do kościoła i będę głosował za in vitro". wyborcza.pl. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  6. ↑ "Krzysztof Gawkowski wybory 2015 do sejmu (Bydgoszcz) – Zjednoczona Lewica (SLD + TR + PPS + UP + Zieloni)". wnp.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  7. ↑ "Krzysztof Gawkowski odchodzi z SLD". Onet Wiadomości (in Polish). 6 November 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  8. ↑ "Były wiceszef SLD łączy siły z Robertem Biedroniem". fakty.interia.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  9. ↑ "Wybory do Sejmu i Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w 2023 r." wybory.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 9 November 2023.
  10. ↑ ""Cień przeszłości" – Krzysztof Gawkowski". www.cienprzeszlosci.pl. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  11. ↑ katalogi.bn.org.pl https://katalogi.bn.org.pl/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Gawkowski,%20Krzysztof&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=NLOP_IZ_NZ&vid=48OMNIS_NLOP:48OMNIS_NLOP&mfacet=lds19,include,Gawkowski%20Krzysztof%201980,1&lang=pl&offset=0. Retrieved 11 May 2020. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ↑ Gawkowski, Krzysztof (2015). Obudzić państwo. Warszawa: Warszawska Firma Wydawnicza. ISBN 978-83-7805-339-2.
  13. ↑ "Cyberkolonializm – premiera książki Krzysztofa Gawkowskiego [2 listopada]". Smart City Blog (in Polish). 26 October 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  14. ↑ "Administracja samorządowa w teorii i praktyce". Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek (in Polish). Retrieved 11 May 2020.


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