Adam Bielan

Adam Jerzy Bielan ([ˈadam ˈjɛʐɨ ˈbjɛlan], born on 12 September 1974 in Gdańsk, Poland) is a Polish politician, Member of the European Parliament for Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie.

Adam Bielan
MEP
Vice-Chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists
Polish Delegation
In office
24 June 2009 – 14 July 2009
ChairmanTimothy Kirkhope
Served alongsideJan Zahradil
Member of the European Parliament
Assumed office
1 May 2004
ConstituencyLesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie
Member of the Sejm
In office
20 October 1997 – 16 June 2004
ConstituencyNational list (1997–2001)
Chrzanów (2001–2004)
Personal details
Born (1974-09-12) 12 September 1974
Gdańsk, Poland
Political partyThe Republicans
Other political
affiliations		Solidarity Electoral Action (1997–1998)
Conservative People's Party (1999–2001)
Right Alliance (2001–2002)
Law and Justice (2002–2010)
Poland Comes First (2010-2011)
Poland Together (2013–2017)
Agreement (2017–2021)
Alma materWarsaw School of Economics
Websitewww.bielan.pl

Bielan sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development. Bielan is a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism, a member of the Delegation for relations with Mercosur and a substitute for the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

Biography

Bielan was chairman of the Independent Students' Union from 1996 to 1998. In September 1997, he was elected to the Sejm for Solidarity Electoral Action on the national list: 9 days after his 23rd birthday. The following year, he joined the Conservative People's Party. In 1999, he became vice-chairman of the European Democrat Students, in which capacity he served for one year.

He joined the Right Alliance (PP) when it was formed in 2001, and ran successfully on the Law and Justice (PiS) list in that year's election in Chrzanów. He joined Law and Justice when the PP merged into it in 2002. He was appointed to the European Parliament on Poland's accession on 1 May 2004 and was re-elected in the election in June 2004, representing Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie, which includes Chrzanów.

Together with fellow MEP Michał Kamiński, Bielan was behind Lech Kaczyński's successful campaign in the 2005 presidential election.[1] In 2007, Bielan was elected as the Vice President of the European Parliament, as the representative of Union for Europe of the Nations, to which PiS belonged.

Bielan was re-elected to the European Parliament at the 2009 election, and joined the European Conservatives and Reformists group with PiS. He was elected one of the ECR's two Vice-Chairmen, with Michał Kamiński as chairman. Along with Kamiński and two other MEPs, Bielan became associated with the Poland Comes First party in November 2010. They continued to sit with the ECR in the Parliament and Bielan continued to be group Vice-Chairman. Bielan left Poland Comes First on 18 March 2011 to sit as an independent. He joined the newly found Poland Together party in January, 2014. He was excluded from the party in 2021.

Footnotes
  1. 'Kto się boi Bielana i Kamińskiego' - Rzeczpospolita daily Archived 2007-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
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