Robert Biedroń

Biografía: Robert Biedroń (Polish pronunciation: [ˈrɔbɛrd ˈbjɛdrɔj̃]; born 13 April 1976) is a Polish politician, former mayor of Słupsk, and LGBT activist who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. He was the Chair of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) in the European Parliament. He is the Chair of Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community and the Vice-Chair of the Committee on Development Biedroń was a member of the Sejm during its 7th session (2011–2014). He's also a former member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. He was the mayor of Słupsk from 2014 to 2018. Biedroń launched a new political party called Spring in February 2019, and was elected as the Member of the European Parliament on his party's list on 26 May 2019. He is one of the three leaders of The Left (Lewica), a political alliance founded to contest the 2019 parliamentary election composed of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), Spring and the Left Together (Lewica Razem). He ran as a candidate for president of Poland in the 2020 election and received 2.21 percent of all votes, making him the sixth most popular candidate. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Biedroń, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.