Michał Kołodziejczak
Michał Kołodziejczak | |
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Michał Kołodziejczak in 2023 | |
| Deputy Minister of Agriculture | |
| In office 13 December 2023 – 18 June 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Janusz Kowalski |
| Member of the Sejm | |
| Assumed office 13 November 2023 | |
| Constituency | 37 Konin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 September 1988[1] Sieradz, Polish People’s Republic |
| Political party | AGROunia (2018–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Law and Justice (2014–2015) Civic Coalition (since 2023) |
| Alma mater | Kazimierz Jagiellończyk School |
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Michał Kołodziejczak (born 14 September 1988) is a Polish politician and founder of AGROunia. He served as Deputy Minister of Agriculture from 2023 to 2025.[2]
Early life
Kołodziejczak started working as a farmer after graduating from Kazimierz Jagiellończyk School in Sieradz.[3]
Political career
In 2014, Kołodziejczak was elected as a councilor of Błaszki, Łódź Voivodeship, but excluded from the party one year later due to organizing protests. In 2018, he established the Unia Warzywno-Ziemniaczana association, which organised protests of the agricultural community against the PiS government's policy on the fight against the African swine fever virus, and against low purchase prices of agricultural produce in the Łódź Voivodeship.[4] The same year on 7 December, Kołodziejczak registered the AGROunia Foundation.[5]
In June 2019, Kołodziejczak announced the establishment of the Prawda Political Party,[6] after which he announced that it would adopt the name Zgoda.[7] He did not become a member of the party and withdrew from the project in August 2019.[8]
In August 2023, Szymon Hołownia of Poland 2050 rejected the possibility of Kołodziejczak running together with RS Agrounia TAK in the parliamentary elections from the lists of the Trzecia Droga coalition.[9] Kołodziejczak ran as a member of the Civic Coalition instead. In the 2023 parliamentary election, he was elected to the Sejm from the Konin constituency, receiving 44,062 votes.[10] There is an ongoing controversy in Poland concerning his alleged studies at scandal-ridden private university Collegium Humanum.[11][12]
Personal life
Kołodziejczak is married with one daughter.[13] On 25 January 2022, Citizen Lab reported that his mobile phone was under surveillance using Pegasus spy software.[14]
References
- ^ "Michał Kołodziejczak: kim jest założyciel Agrounii i lider protestu rolników? Partia, wiek majątek". radiozet.pl (in Polish). 5 February 2019. Archived from the original on 14 December 2021.
- ^ "Michał Kołodziejczak odchodzi z rządu. "Nie będę dawał do tego swojej twarzy" - Wiadomości Radio ZET". wiadomosci.radiozet.pl (in Polish). 18 June 2025. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
- ^ Szpyrka, Łukasz (3 December 2021). "Michał Kołodziejczak: Chcę być premierem". Interia (in Polish).
- ^ "AGROunia". Onet.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 1 December 2024.
- ^ "Fundacja AGROunia". Onet.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 1 December 2024.
- ^ ""Polska chce prawdy" Lider AGROunii zakłada partię polityczną". Rzeczpospolita (in Polish). 16 June 2019.
- ^ ""Zgoda jest potrzebna Polsce". Prezes AGROunii zarejestrował partię". Polskie Radio RDC (in Polish). Warsaw: Polskie Radio. 25 July 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ "Zamieszanie wokół partii Zgoda. Lider domagał się pieniędzy za start?". agropolska.pl (in Polish). 23 August 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
- ^ Opas, Radosław (5 August 2023). "Odrzucili Kołodziejczaka. Nie zostawia suchej nitki na Hołowni". wiadomosci.wp.pl (in Polish).
- ^ "Wybory do Sejmu i Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w 2023 r." (in Polish). Government of Poland. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
- ^ News, Polsat (11 June 2025). "Ekspresowe dyplomy wiceministra. Kołodziejczak się tłumaczy". PolsatNews.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 12 June 2025.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ "Zaświadczenie od rektora, który już nim nie był i przyspieszone studia. Pytania o dyplomy wiceministra". tvn24.pl (in Polish). 12 June 2025. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
- ^ "Michał Kołodziejczak w Salon24: Miałbym już dwa albo trzy samochody gdyby nie polityka". salon24.pl (in Polish). 9 December 2021.
- ^ "Citizen Lab: kolejne dwie osoby szpiegowane Pegasusem w Polsce. W tym gronie lider Agrounii Michał Kołodziejczak". TVN24 (in Polish). TVN Poland. 25 January 2022.