Jarosław Wałęsa

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Jarosław Wałęsa
Jarosław Wałęsa Sejm 2019.jpg
Member of the European Parliament
In office
7 June 2009 – 1 July 2019
Constituency1 – Pomeranian
Member of the Sejm
In office
25 September 2005 – 10 June 2009
Constituency25 – Gdańsk
Personal details
Born (1976-09-13) 13 September 1976 (age 44)
Gdańsk, Poland
Political partyCivic Platform
Spouse(s)
Ewelina Jachymek
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(m. 2012)​
ParentsLech Wałęsa
Mirosława Danuta Gołoś
WebsiteOfficial Website

Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa (pronounced [jaˈrɔswav vaˈwɛ̃sa]; born 13 September 1976 in Gdańsk) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 14,709 votes in 25 Gdańsk district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list. He is the son of former Polish President Lech Wałęsa.

Wałęsa is a 1995 graduate of Glastonbury High School, in Connecticut, where he spent his high school years as a foreign exchange student. He then attended the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

On 2 September 2011 Jarosław was seriously injured riding his motorcycle after colliding with a SUV in Stropkowo near Sierpc.[1] His injuries included a broken spine and dozens of fractures; and he was still undergoing corrective surgeries in July 2015.[2]

He married Ewelina Jachymek in a civil ceremony in 2012, and in a convent in 2013.[3] Their son Wiktor was born in March 2014, becoming the twelfth grandson of Lech Wałęsa.[4]

In the European Parliament election June 2009, he became a member of the European parliament. In 2014, he was re-elected.[5]

He lost his brother, Przemyslaw, (born 1974), Lech Wałęsa's third son, a border guard, who lived in the Morena district in Gdańsk, on 8 January 2017.[6]

Wałęsa became the new head of the Civic Institute, said to be the think tank of Civic Platform, a Polish political party, on 16 June 2015.[7]

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References[]

  1. ^ "Jarosław Wałęsa seriously injured in crash". Retrieved June 6, 2015.
  2. ^ "Planned treatment: Jarosław Wałęsa in hospital for surgery". Retrieved July 23, 2015.
  3. ^ "Jaroslaw Walesa and Ewelina Jachymek were secretly married. Again!" (in Polish). Retrieved June 6, 2015.
  4. ^ [1][2]Jarosław Wałęsa with his son Wiktor and wife Ewelina Jachymek
  5. ^ see also List of members of the European Parliament, 2014–19
  6. ^ [3][4]Lech Walesa buries son, 43, who struggled with alcohol
  7. ^ "Jarosław Wałęsa nowym szefem think tanku PO. Zastąpi Bartłomieja Sienkiewicza" (in Polish). Retrieved June 18, 2015.

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