Dominik Tarczyński

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

Dominik Tarczyński MEP
Tarczyński in 2020
Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 February 2020
Constituency	Poland
Member of the Sejm
In office 2015 – 30 January 2020
Constituency	Lublin
Personal details
Born	(1979-03-27) 27 March 1979 (age 46) Lublin, Poland
Political party	Poland Law and Justice EU ECR
Alma mater	John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
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Early life and career

Tarczyński was born 27 March 1979 in Lublin, Poland.^[1]

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.^[2]

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.^[3] He was the founder of the Association of Catholics Charismatics. ^[4]

Political career

In 2010, he unsuccessfully ran for the Świętokrzyskie Sejm from the Law and Justice list.^[5] He then organised the structures of the Poland Is Most Important Association in Kielce, but after a few weeks he left it.^[6] 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.^[7]

In the 2019 European Parliament elections, he was elected deputy of the ninth term. He received an additional mandate in the European Parliament, granted to Poland as part of the distribution of some of the mandates previously filled by United Kingdom. However, due to the delay in the Brexit procedure, this mandate was suspended.^[8] In the Polish parliamentary election of the same year, he was again elected to the Sejm, receiving 8,186 votes. On February 1, 2020, after Brexit took effect, he was seated as a member of the ninth European Parliament.^[9]

In the 2024 European Parliament elections, he was again elected to European Parliament for its tenth term, receiving 210,942 votes.^[10]

Political positions

A member of the Law and Justice (PiS) party and the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group, he is known for his hardline stance on immigration. He famously declared Poland must enforce zero tolerance for illegal Muslim migration and even supported the use of force to protect borders.^[11] Framing Poland as the “last stronghold of Christianity and normality” in Europe, Tarczyński advocates preserving national cultural identity and opposes what he sees as liberal erosion of traditional values.^[12]

Tarczyński is also a vocal supporter of Donald Trump, frequently using populist slogans like “Make Europe Great Again” in solidarity with Trump’s worldview.^[13] In Brussels, he positions himself as a defender of Poland’s sovereignty and constitutional order, denouncing EU criticisms as a “declaration of war” against Polish democracy.^[14]