Andrzej Szewiński

Andrzej Szewiński
Andrzej Szewiński
Member of Sejm
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 12 November 2019
Constituency	Częstochowa
Member of Senate
	In office; 5 November 2007 – 11 November 2015
Succeeded by	Artur Warzocha
Constituency	Częstochowa
Personal details
Born	20 February 1970 (age 54); Warsaw
Political party	Civic Platform

Andrzej Szewiński (born 20 February 1970 in Warsaw, Poland) is a former professional volleyball player (198 cm, opposite hitter), sport activist and politician. He is the son of the sprinter Irena Szewińska.^[1]

Career as sportsmen

From 1989/90 to 2004/05 (altogether 16 seasons) he played for AZS Częstochowa, Bipop Brescia, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Beşiktaş JK and Galatasaray S.K..^[2]

Political activity

From 2006 to 2007 he was a councilor of the Silesian Regional Assembly from PO. In the parliamentary election in 2007 he was elected to a Senate in Częstochowa district, receiving 81,777 votes. Later he joined Civic Platform. In the parliamentary election in 2011, he won 37,471 votes and again won a seat to Senate from Częstochowa district.^[3] In 2014, he ran for the presidency of Częstochowa, taking 4th place out of 7 candidates.^[4] In 2015 he did not receive a senatorial reelection, because Artur Warzocha defeated him.^[5] On 30 December 2015 he replaced Krzysztof Łoziński as the vice-president of Częstochowa.^[6] In 2018 he ran unsuccessfully to the regional assembly. In the parliamentary election in 2019 he was elected to Sejm in Częstochowa district.^[7]

References

^ Marnie Winston-Macauley (2007). "Yiddishe Mamas": the truth about the Jewish mother. pg 363: Andrews McMeel Publishing. p. 384. ISBN 978-0-7407-6376-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
^ . 16 December 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121216160917/http://dl.pzps.pl/7558,get/reprezentanci-polski.doc. Archived from the original on 16 December 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2019. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ "Wybory 2011". wybory2011.pkw.gov.pl. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
^ "PKW | Samorząd 2014". samorzad2014.pkw.gov.pl. Archived from the original on 29 September 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
^ "PKW | Wybory do Sejmu RP i Senatu RP". parlament2015.pkw.gov.pl. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
^ "Wyborcza.pl". czestochowa.wyborcza.pl. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
^ "Wybory do Sejmu i Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 2019 r." wybory.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 18 October 2019.

(in Polish) Biography on Polish parliament website

[1] Marnie Winston-Macauley (2007). "Yiddishe Mamas": the truth about the Jewish mother. pg 363: Andrews McMeel Publishing. p. 384. ISBN 978-0-7407-6376-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)

[2] . 16 December 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121216160917/http://dl.pzps.pl/7558,get/reprezentanci-polski.doc. Archived from the original on 16 December 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2019. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[3] "Wybory 2011". wybory2011.pkw.gov.pl. Retrieved 25 January 2019.

[4] "PKW | Samorząd 2014". samorzad2014.pkw.gov.pl. Archived from the original on 29 September 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2019.

[5] "PKW | Wybory do Sejmu RP i Senatu RP". parlament2015.pkw.gov.pl. Retrieved 25 January 2019.

[6] "Wyborcza.pl". czestochowa.wyborcza.pl. Retrieved 25 January 2019.

[7] "Wybory do Sejmu i Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 2019 r." wybory.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 18 October 2019.

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