1. Janusz Korwin-Mikke was a member of the European Parliament from 2014 until 2018.
30 Facts About Janusz Korwin-Mikke
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke was the leader of the Congress of the New Right, which was formed in 2011 from Liberty and Lawfulness, which he led from its formation in 2009, and the Real Politics Union, which he led from 1990 to 1997 and from 1999 to 2003.
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke was the chairman of the party KORWiN until his resignation on 15 October 2022, and from 2019 to 2023 a member of the Sejm, elected from the electoral list of Confederation Liberty and Independence.
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke was born in German-occupied Warsaw on 27 October 1942.
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke was the only child of Ryszard Mikke and Maria Rosochacka.
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke's great-grandfather was Gustaw Izydor Mucke, son of Samuel Beniamin Mucke.
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke studied at the Faculty of Mathematics and Faculty of Philosophy of the Warsaw University.
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke met with Milton Friedman when Friedman toured Europe advocating free-market policies.
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In 1991, Janusz Korwin-Mikke became a member of the Sejm, between 1991 and 1993, during the first parliamentary term after the establishment of the Third Polish Republic.
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke is a self-declared monarchist who claims that democracy is "the most stupid form of government ever conceived".
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke frequently refers to figures such as Frederic Bastiat, Alexis de Tocqueville, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Margaret Thatcher and Nicolas Gomez Davila, among others.
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In 2019, Janusz Korwin-Mikke was elected as deputy in the lower chamber of the Polish Parliament, effectively returning to Polish politics after 26 years of absence.
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On 15 October 2022, Janusz Korwin-Mikke resigned from his position as the chairman of the KORWiN party.
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke achieved a surprisingly good result, garnering support from over 21 thousand voters.
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke has been described as a "perpetual political gadfly" by Politico, and as "a colorful and abrasive character" by The Guardian.
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At the plenary session of the European Parliament held after the assault at Charlie Hebdo, Janusz Korwin-Mikke expressed his dissatisfaction with the public reaction to those events by stating 'I am not Charlie.
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke believes that women are, on average, less intelligent than men, citing chess results to back up his claims.
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke has cited Margaret Thatcher as his political model.
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke further claimed that "there is a hypothesis that the attitudes of men are passed to women they sleep with".
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On 1 March 2017, Janusz Korwin-Mikke sparked controversy by stating that women were paid less than their male counterparts on average due to them being "smaller, weaker and less intelligent", during a debate in the EP regarding the gender pay gap.
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke was one of the few voices supporting the ruling, saying on Twitter, "If they don't scream, it shows they want it," and "This criterion has worked for 6,000 years," drawing criticism.
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In 2014, Janusz Korwin-Mikke was fined by President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz for 'expressing himself in a racist manner'.
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke claimed that "one must slaughter" those who promote gay rights.
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke objected to the Polish government's decision to bar Holocaust denier David Irving from entering Poland.
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke promoted a conspiracy theory on Jews while commenting on media reports about a custom in which residents of the town of Pruchnik beat with sticks the effigy of an Orthodox Jew.
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke proposed that the European Commission's Berlaymont building would be better used as a brothel.
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In regard to welfare, Janusz Korwin-Mikke claimed that "if someone gives money to an unemployed person, he should have his hand cut off because he is destroying the morale of the people".
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On 8 September 2015, Janusz Korwin-Mikke was giving a speech in EP about the European migrant crisis, during which he described immigrants unwilling to work and only interested in welfare as "human garbage".
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke's opinion met with critical reaction of other MEPs.
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke has been described as supporting Russia on a number of occasions since the 2010s.