Mateusz Piskorski
Mateusz Piskorski | |
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member of Sejm 2005-2007 | |
In office September 25, 2005 – November 4, 2007 | |
Personal details | |
Born |
Szczecin, Poland | May 18, 1977
Nationality | Poland |
Political party | Zmiana |
Mateusz Piskorski (born 18 May 1977, Szczecin) is a Polish political neo-Eurasian activist, expert and publicist, proponent of de-Americanization of the European continent and strategic shift of Europe's allies from the West to Russia ("Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok").
Education and professional work
In 2001, he graduated in Political Science at the University of Szczecin. In January 2011 he received his doctorate at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. His doctoral dissertation was titled "Samoobrona in Polish political party system"
In 2002 he was employed as a lecturer at the University of Szczecin. He worked there until 2005 He also lectured at the Collegium Balticum and the High School of Pedagogy in Szczecin. In 2007 he returned to work at the University of Szczecin. In 2008 he was elected a president of the "Society for Polish-Venezuelan partnership". He also became the president of the board of Nord Media Press and worked at polish NBC. From December 2009 to December 2010 was deputy director of Polish Radio Euro. He was a lecturer at the Academy of Jan Dlugosz in Czestochowa.
Mateusz Piskorski is a co-founder of the European Center of Geopolitical Analysis - polish think-tank dealing with issues of geopolitics. It publishes books, organizes conferences and runs portal geopolityka.org. His texts were published among others in the "Polityka Narodowa", "Obywatel", "Myśl Polska" and "Myśl.pl"
Election monitoring
Mateusz Piskorski, as an expert and political scientist, participated and co-organized a number of election monitoring missions, which took place in:
- Autonomous Republic of Crimea 16 March 2014 (referendum)
- Russia 12–16 September 2014 (regional elections) [1]
- Nagorno-Karabakh 19 July 2012 (presidential elections) [2]
- Armenia 6 May 2012 (parliamentary elections) [3]
- Russia 13 March 2011 (regional elections) [4]
- Latvia 22–24 July 2011 (referendum) [5]
- Germany 18 September 2011 (local elections) [6]
- Estonia 5–7 March 2011 (parliamentary elections) [7]
- Latvia 25 February 2011 (regional elections) [8]
- Belarus 18–20 December 2010 (presidential elections) [9]
- Abkhazia 10 December 2009 (presidential elections) [10]
These missions were initiatives organised by European Center of Geopolitical Analysis (ECAG).
Political activity
As a student, Piskorski joined the Polish People's Party. He was also active in various societies promoting the idea of Pan-Slavism. He was an activist of the "NIKLOT" society and worked in various organizations of the popular-patriotic profile, such us National-Democratic Party. A big impact on his political activities had the ideas of polish political philosopher Jan Stachniuk (leader of the pre-war society "Zadruga"). Those ideas combine on the one hand passionate patriotism, and on the other consequent anti-capitalism and anti-globalism. He maintains close contacts with continetalists from all over Europe who consistently argue for de-Americanisation of the Old Continent and for the construction of Euro-continental cooperation "from Lisbon to Vladivostok".
In 2000 Piskorski quit the People's Party and in 2002 joined the Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland party to become the assistant to Member of Parliament Jan Łączny. A 2001 graduate of the humanist faculty of the Szczecin University, he remained at his alma mater as a doctoral student. He quit this job in 2005 to devote himself to politics. In 2005 he also became one of principal members of Andrzej Lepper's electoral committee during the Polish 2005 presidential election.
In the Polish 2005 parliamentary election, Piskorski successfully ran for the Sejm from the Szczecin constituency. As a deputy he was a vice-chairman of the Reprivatization Committee and worked in the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Statutory Committee. He also represented Polish Parliament in the Assembly of Western European Union. The following year he also ran for president of Szczecin in the 2006 local elections, but withdrew before the elections and supported a Law and Justice candidate instead.[11] He failed to defend his seat in the Polish 2007 parliamentary election and failed to return to the parliament in the 2011 parliamentary election (this time running as a candidate of Polish Labour Party (Sierpień 80)).[12]
In February 2015 Mateusz Piskorski founded a new political party called "Zmiana" ("Change"), being a political platform that combines left-wing anti-capitalist views with anti-imperialist, pacifistic social policies. At the founding meeting were invited, among many other figures, representatives of the self-proclaimed Novorossiya to inform the Polish public about their views on the War in Donbass.[13][14][15][16]
In May 2016, shortly before NATO summit, Mateusz Piskorski was detained by Poland's Internal Security Agency on the charges of "cooperation with Russian intelligence services, meeting intelligence officers and undertaking operational tasks from them as well as accepting payments".[17]
Sources internal to the Zmiana party have described the detention as: “an attempt to intimidate those whose views on foreign, domestic and socioeconomic policy differ from those of the government”.[18]
See also
Travel to Iran
For his first time via Thierry Meyssan, doctor Piskorski has been contacted and invited to Iran by Hamed Ghashghavi[19] as the secretary of International Affairs of the International Conference on Hollywoodism in Tehran in February 2013.
References
Citations
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- ↑ zel, p. 1.
- ↑ Państwowa Komisja Wyborcza, p. 1.
- ↑ http://www.polskatimes.pl/artykul/3750615,zmiana-nowa-partia-ludzi-andrzeja-leppera-zapraszaja-do-polski-przedstawicieli-noworosji,id,t.html?cookie=1#.VOHQVeed1rw.twitter
- ↑ http://mateuszpiskorski.blog.onet.pl/
- ↑ http://www.thenews.pl/1/10/Artykul/197948,Ukrainian-separatists-blocked-from-entering-Poland/
- ↑ http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150225/1018756928.html/
- ↑ "Wyborcza.pl". m.wyborcza.pl. Retrieved 2016-05-26.
- ↑ "The Guardian". www.theguardian.com. Retrieved 2016-06-05.
- ↑ http://ghashghavi.ir/
Bibliography
- (Polish) Gk; Polish Press Agency (corporate author); Rzeczpospolita (corporate author) (06-10-2002). "Jesienny zaciąg Leppera" [Lepper's autumn levy]. Newsweek Polska (06-10-2002). ISSN 1642-5685. Retrieved 18-03-2014. Check date values in:
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(help) - (Polish) ECAG (corporate author). "Eksperci ECAG". Geopolityka.org. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
- (Polish) zel; Polish Press Agency (corporate author) (10-11-2006). "Kandydat Samoobrony rezygnuje ze startu w wyborach na rzecz kandydatki PiS". wiadomosci.wp.pl (2006-11-10). Retrieved 2014-03-18. Check date values in:
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(help) - (Polish) Państwowa Komisja Wyborcza (corporate author) (2011). "Piskorski Mateusz Andrzej". Wybory 2011. Retrieved 2014-03-14.
External links
- Mateusz Piskorski - parliamentary page - includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches.