Former PiS senator and Opole regional councilor Jerzy Czerwiński has died at the age of 64. “I will remember him as a great patriot, a man of great honesty, modesty and great diligence,” wrote Marek Pęk from PiS about his deceased colleague.
The Opole Voivodeship Government and the Senate of the Republic of Poland announced the death of Jerzy Czerwiński on their websites on Monday.
“Today we received unexpected news that Jerzy Czerwiński, a councilor of the Opole province for the current term, has died” – it was emphasized on the website of the Opole province Self-Government. “A teacher by profession, a member of the Sejm of the 4th term and a senator of the 9th and 10th term. He had been a member of the provincial assembly earlier, from 2006 to 2014. Honor to his memory” – we read.
The Senate website also reports that on August 12, 2024, Jerzy Czerwiński, senator of the 9th and 10th term, candidate of the PiS Electoral Committee, elected from the district in Opole, died; in the Senate he was a member of the National Defense and Legislative Committees.
PiS senator Marek Pęk also informed about the councilor's death. “I will remember him as a great patriot, a man of great honesty, modesty and great diligence. Jurek, rest in peace,” the senator wrote on platform X.
Jerzy Czerwiński from PiS. Who was he?
Jerzy Czerwiński was born on June 19, 1960 in Niemodlin (Opole Province). He graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, and also completed postgraduate studies at the Pedagogical University in Opole and at the Silesian University of Technology. He became involved in politics in 1994, working as a councilor of the Prudnik commune, and from 1998 he served as a councilor of the Prudnik district.
In the 4th term of the Sejm, he served as deputy chairman of the National and Ethnic Minorities Committee and a member of the local government and regional policy committee. In 2015-2017, he was a member of the Senate Budget and Public Finance Committee.
Jerzy CzerwinskiPAP/Leszek Szymanski
Since 2017, he has served on the Senate National Defense Committee and the Legislative Committee. In the 2023 elections, he lost his senatorial mandate, losing to the Senate Pact candidate Tadeusz Jarmuziewicz (KO).
In the 2024 elections, he was elected as a councilor of the Opole Voivodeship Assembly.
The politician initially belonged to the Movement for the Republic, later he was active in the Movement for the Reconstruction of Poland. In 1997 he joined the Catholic-National Movement, and in 2001 he ran in the parliamentary elections from the list of the League of Polish Families. Since 2006 he has been a member of Law and Justice.
He was a member of the “Prudnica Land” Association.
Main image source: PAP/Leszek Szymanski