Tomasz Tomczykiewicz has been chosen as the new head of the Civic Platform parliamentary club, a position made vacant by Grzegorz Schetyna when he became new Parliamentary Speaker.

39-year-old Tomczykiewicz is a member of the national council of the party, as well as head of Civic Platform in the Silesian province. He has been a member of parliament since 2001.

Tomasz Tomczykiewicz told journalists, Thursday, that he accepted the proposal to run for the position after talks with Prime Minister Donald Tusk, saying that if he were to become head of the parliamentary club, he would nominate Slawomir Rybicki as deputy.

Between 1990-1998 Tomczykiewicz was a councillor in the southern town of Pszczyna, as well as being a member of the town governing board. Before switching to Civic Platform in 2001, he was a member of controversial politician Janusz Korwin-Mikke’s Union of Real Politics as well as the Conservative People’s Party, of which Bronislaw Komorowski and Jan Rokita are also former members.

Tomczykiewicz is a graduate of the Krakow University of Technology where he finished construction engineering, as well as completing post-graduate studies at the Warsaw School of Economics. (jb)

Source: IAR

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