1. Roman Giertych was a member of the Sejm from 2001 to 2007 and the chairman of the League of Polish Families party and, in 1989, founder of the Polish nationalist and far-right organization All-Polish Youth.
21 Facts About Roman Giertych
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Roman Giertych is a member of the Sejm again, effectively for KO, since late 2023.
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Roman Giertych spent his entire early life in Kornik, where he finished both primary and secondary school.
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Roman Giertych graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, with Master's degrees in History and Law.
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On 5 May 2006, Roman Giertych was appointed minister of education and vice-premier, while the LPR joined a governmental coalition with PiS.
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Roman Giertych's nomination was largely controversial because of his nationalist and authoritarian views.
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In March 2007 Roman Giertych proposed a bill that would ban homosexual people from the teaching profession and would allow dismiss from employment those teachers who promote "the culture of homosexual lifestyle".
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Roman Giertych became an active opponent of former coalition partner PiS.
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Roman Giertych declared numerous times to vote for PO, co-founded several political initiatives and established himself as a busy investigator of embezzlement charges against PiS cadre, while he is perceived critically in parts of the liberal public.
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Roman Giertych announced his intention to run for the Polish Senate in the 2023 Polish election, but he decided against it after the left-wing Nowa Lewica strongly opposed to him.
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Roman Giertych represented entrepreneur Ryszard Krauze, accused of dealing with a gang, in a trial in which the claim was allowed in the first instance, consequently ordering Telewizja Polska and Anita Gargas to apologize to the entrepreneur.
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Roman Giertych was involved in helping the Jewish community of Gora Kalwaria to reclaim and restore a local synagogue.
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Roman Giertych was the lawyer of the then head of the European Council, Donald Tusk, in an inquiry into the cooperation of Polish services with the Russian FSB.
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Roman Giertych was Katarzyna Tusk's attorney in a trial, resulting in an apology of Fakt.
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Roman Giertych represented Donald Tusk in cases before prosecutors, the Amber Gold Investigation Committee and the VAT Investigation Committee.
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In 2009, Roman Giertych himself won a lawsuit brought against the publisher of the Fakt for the protection of personal rights.
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On 15 October 2020, Roman Giertych was detained on accusations of money laundering.
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The operation was represented to have benefited, among others, then-shareholder Ryszard Krauze, a fellow suspect and legal client of Roman Giertych, who is a former billionaire struggling with bankruptcy since about 2010.
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In late December 2021, Associated Press revealed that according to Canadian NGO Citizen Lab, the phone Roman Giertych used in 2019 was infected by the Pegasus spy tool.
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In February 2022, Roman Giertych spoke at a public hearing in the European Parliament about, among other things, the abuse of Pegasus in Poland.
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Roman Giertych campaigned remotely and reappeared in public during the swearing-in ceremony.