Dominik Tarczyński

Dominik Tarczyński (born 27 March 1979) is a Polish politician and journalist, who has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2020 and was a member of the Sejm (MP) from 2015 to 2020.

Early life and career

Tarczyński was born on 27 March 1979 in Lublin, Poland.

From 2003 to 2008, he was a community organizer at London's Westminster Cathedral, and hosted a radio broadcast of Christian music. He was a lay assistant to one of the British exorcists. From January 23, 2009, to February 1, 2010, he was the director of TVP3 Kielce; later, he was employed as the deputy director for operation in the IT and Telecommunications Centre of TVP.

He also took up journalistic activity in the pages of Gazeta Polska and created documentary films devoted to Christian topics. He directed the documentary film Colombia - Testimony to the World, with the participation of the then-president of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe, which received an award at the Sixteenth International Catholic Film and Multimedia Festival in Niepokalanów. He was the founder of the Association of Catholics Charismatics.

Political career

In 2010, he unsuccessfully ran for the Świętokrzyskie Sejm from the Law and Justice list. He then organised the structures of the Poland Is Most Important Association in Kielce, but after a few weeks he left it. In 2011, he co-founded Solidarna Polska, which he left at the beginning of April 2014. In the same year, on the recommendation of the Right hand of the Republic of Poland, he again ran for the regional council from the PiS list. In the parliamentary elections in 2015, he ran for the Sejm as an independent candidate from the eleventh place on the Law and Justice list in the Kielce district. He was elected MP for the eighth term of office, receiving 7,475 votes. After the elections, he became a member of PiS.