Joanna Kopcińska

Joanna Kopcińska
MEP
Member of the European Parliament
for Poland
Personal details
Born (1967-01-02) 2 January 1967
Łódź, Poland
Political partyLaw and Justice

Joanna Maria Kopcińska[1] (born 2 January 1967)[2] is a Polish politician currently serving as a Member of the European Parliament for the Law and Justice political party.

Career

A doctor by profession, Kopcińska graduated from the Medical University of Łódź in 1997. She completed postgraduate studies at the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine in the fields of health care organization, management, and economics (2002), as well as public and environmental health (2003). In 2017, she completed a Master of Business Administration.[3] She worked as a university lecturer and co-founded the Senior Health Academy. She is a member of the Polish Society of Public Health, the Polish Society of Hospital Infections, the District Medical Chamber, and the Social Council of the Władysław Biegański Voivodeship Specialist Hospital in Łódź.[4]

In the 2010 local elections, Kopcińska unsuccessfully ran for a position on the Łódź City Council as a part of the Civic Platform party.[5] She was elected to the city council in 2011, replacing Tomasz Sadzyński.[4] In August 2013, she and a group of other city councilors left Civic Platform, and they formed their own group, titled "Łódź 2020". The same month, she was elected chairwoman of the city council as a result of support from the opposition Law and Justice and the Democratic Left Alliance.[6] In 2014, she left the position of chairwoman[7] and became the Law and Justice candidate for the mayor of Łódź.[4] She received 22.89% of the total votes, losing the election to Hanna Zdanowska of Civic Platform.[8]

In 2014, Kopcińska was elected to the 5th term of the Łódź Voivodeship Sejmik as a member of Law and Justice[9] and eventually became vice chairwoman of the Sejmik.[10]In the 2015 parliamentary election, she ran for the Sejm Constituency no. 9 seat on the Law and Justice list (initially as an independent, but she later joined Law and Justice). She won the election and became a member of parliament in the Sejm's 8th term.[11] In the Sejm, she became vice chairwoman of the Health Committee[3] and joined the Amber Gold Investigative Committee in 2016.[12] In 2016, she became head of Law and Justice's Łodz district branch.[13]

In 2019, Kopcińska became spokesperson for the First Cabinet of Mateusz Morawiecki and Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister.[14][15] She won the election for the 9th term of the 2019 European Parliament election for the Łódź district.[16]

Personal life

Kopcińska is married and has a son.[17]

References

  1. ^ "Joanna Kopcińska". Interia (in Polish). 12 April 2024. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  2. ^ "Joanna Kopcińska". European Parliament. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Joanna Kopcińska" (in Polish). Sejm. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  4. ^ a b c "W łódzkiej kampanii wyborczej bardzo wyjątkowa sytuacja". Portal Samorządowy (in Polish). Polish Press Agency. 13 November 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  5. ^ "Self-government elections 2010". Wybory 2010. National Electoral Commission. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  6. ^ Baranowska, Jolanta (19 September 2013). "Łódź 2020 - Wyrzuceni z PO utworzyli własny klub radnych". Dziennik Łódzki (in Polish). Polska Press. Archived from the original on 6 October 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  7. ^ "2020 rokiem samorządu tery torialnego" (PDF) (in Polish). Łódź City Council. p. 15. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  8. ^ "Wybory Samorządowe 2014" (in Polish). National Electoral Commission. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  9. ^ "Oficjalne wyniki wyborów do Sejmiku Województwa Łódzkiego". Radio Łódź (in Polish). 21 November 2014. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  10. ^ Darda, Marcin (24 January 2015). "Joanna Kopcińska na listach wyborczych do Sejmu". Dziennik Łódzki (in Polish). Polska Press. Archived from the original on 4 December 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  11. ^ "Wybory do Sejmu i Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 2015" (in Polish). National Electoral Commission. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  12. ^ "Wassermann, Suski i Grabowski na czele komisji ws. Amber Gold". TVN24 (in Polish). 22 July 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  13. ^ Darda, Marcin (29 October 2016). "Joanna Kopcińska szefem PiS w okręgu łódzkim". Dziennik Łódzki (in Polish). Polska Press. Archived from the original on 30 October 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  14. ^ "Premier Mateusz Morawiecki przedstawił nowych ministrów w KPRM" (in Polish). Prime Minister of Poland. 18 December 2017. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  15. ^ "Joanna Kopcińska" (PDF) (in Polish). Prime Minister of Poland. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  16. ^ "Wybory do Parlamentu Europejskiego 2019" (in Polish). National Electoral Commission. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  17. ^ Gnacikowska, Wioletta (18 December 2017). "Kariera Joanny Kopcińskiej. Od radnej PO do ulubienicy Kaczyńskiego. Oto rzeczniczka rządu Morawieckiego". OKO.press (in Polish). Retrieved 9 April 2025.
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