1. Grzegorz Braun served as a member of the Sejm for Rzeszow from 2019 to 2024.
31 Facts About Grzegorz Braun
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Grzegorz Braun has been Chairman of the Confederation of the Polish Crown since 2019 and a member of the European Parliament for Lesser Poland and Swietokrzyskie since 2024.
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Grzegorz Braun holds anti-American, anti-Ukrainian, antisemitic, anti-Zionist, and anti-LGBTQ views, and has been broadly described as far-right.
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Grzegorz Braun was involved with the Polish Monarchists Organisation, for which he contributed written works and lectures.
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Grzegorz Braun is involved with "Wake-up Call", an organisation that he has founded to strengthen the self-sustainability of faith communities and the internet show Sumienie Narodu.
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Grzegorz Braun is fiercely critical of Protestantism in Poland and has often debated Protestants in public.
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In September 2012, Grzegorz Braun called for the execution by firing squad of journalists from Gazeta Wyborcza and TVN, which led to an official investigation.
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Grzegorz Braun calls for Poland to independently maintain and operate nuclear weapons.
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In January 2019, Grzegorz Braun announced his candidacy for the mayoral office of Gdansk.
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Grzegorz Braun's candidacy was endorsed by Janusz Korwin-Mikke and the National Movement.
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On 4 March 2019, it was determined that Grzegorz Braun received 11.86 per cent of votes and thus conceded to the winner Aleksandra Dulkiewicz who received 82.22 per cent of the votes.
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Grzegorz Braun built on his success from the last election, and his list received 8.25 per cent of the vote, which was again the best result for the Confederation nationwide.
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Grzegorz Braun was a candidate in the 2020 Confederation presidential primary.
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Grzegorz Braun made it into the final round of voting where he lost to Krzysztof Bosak.
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Grzegorz Braun immediately endorsed Bosak and said he would campaign for him.
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Grzegorz Braun finished his speech addressing the minister of health, Adam Niedzielski, with the words "You, sir, will hang".
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Niedzielski, along with the Speaker of the Sejm, Elzbieta Witek, filed to press punishable threat charges against Grzegorz Braun, which were later dropped by the prosecutor citing "no signs of a crime".
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Grzegorz Braun was interviewed by Sputnik in 2019, and has been praised by the Russian media for his stances on Ukraine since the beginning of the 2022 invasion.
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Grzegorz Braun claimed that his party was actively fighting against the "banderization" and "ukrainization" of Poland by trying to prevent the influx of Ukrainian refugees.
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On 27 January 2023, Grzegorz Braun destroyed a Christmas tree decorated with baubles themed with Ukrainian, EU and LGBTQ pride flags located in the building of the Krakow District Court.
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Grzegorz Braun said that he had staged a "parliamentary intervention".
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Grzegorz Braun was elected to the European Parliament in the 2024 European Parliament election.
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Grzegorz Braun declared his intent despite the fact that the Confederation Liberty and Independence leadership had designated Mentzen as party's presidential candidate back in August 2024.
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Grzegorz Braun wrote with a spray paint "Stop to the propaganda of deviation" on the display boards.
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On 30 May 2023, Grzegorz Braun disrupted a lecture on the Holocaust by the historian Jan Grabowski at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw by invading the room and destroying the event's microphone and speakers.
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Grzegorz Braun has been quoted accusing Jews of being "the enemies of Poland" and alleging their desire to undertake a "hostile takeover" of Polish territory and to place ethnic Poles in reservations, an allegory for Indian reservations.
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Grzegorz Braun has claimed there exists a plan to turn Poland into a "Jewish state".
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Grzegorz Braun was excluded from the ongoing session of the Sejm, and punished by having his parliamentary allowance withheld for six months.
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Grzegorz Braun has denied having racist motives and described his actions as a response to what he perceives as "Satanic, Talmudist triumphalism" of Jewish holidays.
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On 29 January 2025, Grzegorz Braun disrupted a moment of silence held during European Parliament's sitting in commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day by shouting "Let's pray for the victims of the Jewish genocide in Gaza".
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Grzegorz Braun was excluded from the meeting and escorted out.