Adam Bielan

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Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 May 2004
Constituency	10 – Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie
Member of the Sejm
In office 20 October 1997 – 16 June 2004
Constituency	National list (1997–01) 13 – Chrzanów (2001–4)
Personal details
Born	(1974-09-12) 12 September 1974 Gdańsk, Poland
Nationality	Polish
Political party	Poland Together (2014-)
Other political affiliations	Solidarity Electoral Action (1997–8) Conservative People's Party (1999–01) Right Alliance (2001–2) Law and Justice (2002–10) Poland Comes First (2010-11)
Alma mater	Warsaw School of Economics
Religion	Roman Catholic
Website	www.bielan.pl

Adam Jerzy Bielan ([ˈadam ˈjɛʐɨ ˈbjɛlan], born on 12 September 1974 in Gdańsk, Poland) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie with Poland Together. He is Vice-Chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists political grouping.

Bielan sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development. Bielan is a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism, a member of the Delegation for relations with Mercosur and a substitute for the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

Biography

Bielan was chairman of the Independent Students' Union from 1996 to 1998. In September 1997, he was elected to the Sejm for Solidarity Electoral Action on the national list: 9 days after his 23rd birthday. The following year, he joined the Conservative People's Party. In 1999, he became vice-chairman of the European Democrat Students, in which capacity he served for one year.

He joined the Right Alliance (PP) when it was formed in 2001, and ran successfully on the Law and Justice (PiS) list at that year's election in Chrzanów. He joined Law and Justice when the PP merged into it in 2002. He was appointed to the European Parliament on Poland's accession on 1 May 2004 and was re-elected at the election in June 2004, representing Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie, which includes Chrzanów.

Together with fellow MEP Michał Kamiński, Bielan was behind Lech Kaczyński's successful campaign in the 2005 presidential election. In 2007, Bielan was elected a Vice President of the European Parliament, as the representative of Union for Europe of the Nations, to which PiS belonged.

Bielan was re-elected to the European Parliament at the 2009 election, and joined the European Conservatives and Reformists group with PiS. He was elected one of the ECR's two Vice-Chairmen, with Michał Kamiński as chairman. Along with Kamiński and two other MEPs, Bielan became associated with the Poland Comes First party in November 2010. They continued to sit with the ECR in the Parliament and Bielan continued to be group Vice-Chairman. Bielan left Poland Comes First on 18 March 2011 to sit as an independent. He joined the newly found Poland Together party in January, 2014.

External links

• Personal profile of Adam Bielan in the European Parliament's database of members
• Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (Polish)