Waldemar Tomaszewski | |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
| Assumed office 7 June 2009 | |
| Constituency | Lithuania |
| Member of theSeimas | |
| In office 2000–2009 | |
| Constituency | Šalčininkai |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1965-03-03)3 March 1965 (age 60) |
| Political party | Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Alliance |
| Website | www.vtomasevski.lt |
Waldemar Tomaszewski (former spellingValdemar Tomaševski, born 3 March 1965) is aPolish-Lithuanian politician who is also an activist for the Polish minority in Lithuania andMember of the European Parliament (MEP). Leader of theElectoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA), Tomaszewski has been an MEPsince 2009. He sits in theEuropean Conservatives and Reformistsgroup, of which he is a Member of the Bureau on thegroup executive.
Tomaszewski studied mechanics at the Vilnius Civil Engineering Institute (nowVilnius Gediminas Technical University) in 1983 and graduated in 1990. First elected toVilnius district council for Electoral Action in 1995, Tomaszewski was elected President of LLRaL in 1999. He was first elected to theSeimas at the2000 election, winning 51% of the vote in the single-seat constituency ofŠalčininkai.[1] In the same year, he became deputy mayor of Vilnius district, serving from 2000 to 2003. Finding himself as one of only two LLRA members in the Seimas, during the parliamentary term, he moved between factions, includingHomeland Union andOrder and Justice.
Tomaszewski was re-elected to the Seimasin 2004 with 63% of the vote:[2] one of five candidates in the country elected in the first round. He was re-elected again at the2008 election, winning 61% of the vote: eight times his nearest competitor's share.[3] In theMay 2009 presidential election, he became the first presidential candidate nominated by LLRA. Receiving 4.7% of the national vote, Tomaszewski finished fourth, withDalia Grybauskaitė winning comfortably.
The following month, he stood forelection to theEuropean Parliament. Winning 8.4% of the vote, up from 5.7%in 2004, LLRA won its first ever MEP, with Tomaszewski topping the list and being elected. He joined theEuropean Conservatives and Reformists, and was appointed to the group's bureau. He was reelected for next terms in2014,2019 and in2024.
He has been awarded the Commander's Cross of theOrder of Merit of the Republic of Poland.
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