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Adam Bielan | |
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| Vice-Chair of theEuropean Conservatives and Reformists Polish Delegation | |
| In office 24 June 2009 – 14 July 2009 | |
| Chairman | Timothy Kirkhope |
| Served alongside | Jan Zahradil |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 1 May 2004 – 17 April 2014 | |
| Constituency | Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie (2004–2009) Masovian (2009–2014) |
| Assumed office 2 July 2019 | |
| Constituency | Masovian |
| Member of theSejm | |
| In office 20 October 1997 – 16 June 2004 | |
| Constituency | National list (1997–2001) Chrzanów (2001–2004) |
| Deputy Marshal of the Senate | |
| In office 12 November 2015 – 28 May 2019 | |
| Member ofSenate | |
| In office 12 November 2015 – 28 May 2019 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1974-09-12)12 September 1974 (age 51) |
| Political party | The Republicans |
| Other political affiliations | Solidarity Electoral Action(1997–1998) Conservative People's Party(1999–2001) Right Alliance(2001–2002) Law and Justice(2002–2010) Poland Comes First(2010-2011) Poland Together(2013–2017) Agreement(2017–2021) |
| Alma mater | Warsaw School of Economics |
| Website | www.bielan.pl |
Adam Jerzy Bielan ([ˈadam ˈjɛʐɨ ˈbjɛlan], born on 12 September 1974 inGdańsk, Poland) is a Polish politician,Member of the European Parliament forLesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie andMasovian between 2004 and 2014, and from 2019 MEP for Masovian constituency. Member of theSenate and theDeputy Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland 2015–2019.
Bielan sits on theEuropean Parliament'sCommittee on Regional Development. Bielan is a substitute for theCommittee on Transport and Tourism, a member of the Delegation for relations withMercosur and a substitute for the Delegation to theACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
Bielan was chairman of theIndependent Students' Union from 1996 to 1998.In September 1997, he was elected to theSejm forSolidarity Electoral Action on the national list: 9 days after his 23rd birthday. The following year, he joined theConservative People's Party. In 1999, he became vice-chairman of theEuropean Democrat Students, in which capacity he served for one year.
He joined theRight Alliance (PP) when it was formed in 2001, and ran successfully on theLaw and Justice (PiS) list inthat year's election inChrzanów. He joined Law and Justice when the PP merged into it in 2002. He was appointed to theEuropean Parliament on Poland's accession on 1 May 2004 and was re-elected in theelection in June 2004, representingLesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie, which includes Chrzanów.
Together with fellow MEPMichał Kamiński, Bielan was behindLech Kaczyński's successful campaign in the2005 presidential election.[1] In 2007, Bielan was elected as theVice President of the European Parliament, as the representative ofUnion for Europe of the Nations, to which PiS belonged.
Bielan was re-elected to the European Parliament at the2009 election, and joined theEuropean Conservatives and Reformists group with PiS. He was elected one of the ECR's two Vice-Chairmen, withMichał Kamiński as chairman. Along with Kamiński and two other MEPs, Bielan became associated with thePoland Comes First party in November 2010. They continued to sit with the ECR in the Parliament and Bielan continued to be group Vice-Chairman. Bielan left Poland Comes First on 18 March 2011 to sit as an independent. He joined the newly foundPoland Together party in January, 2014. He was excluded from the party in 2021.
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