Editing Marek Jurek (section)

==Biography==
He is a graduate in history from [[Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań]]. In the 1980s he was an activist in the [[anti-communist]] movement in Poland. After the fall of the communism in 1989, he was one of the founders of the now defunct political party [[Christian National Union]]. He was a deputy in the [[Contract Sejm]] and later in the [[Sejm]] of the Republic of Poland from 1991 to 1993.

From 1995 to 2001 he was a member of the National Broadcasting Council.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Council's history - About the National Broadcasting Council - KRRiT - The National Broadcasting Council |url=http://www.archiwum.krrit.gov.pl/en/krrit/about-the-national-broadcasting-council/history/ |access-date=2025-04-15 |website=www.archiwum.krrit.gov.pl}}</ref>

In 2001, he was elected a deputy of the [[Sejm]] again, this time as a member of the [[Law and Justice (Poland)|Law and Justice]] party. On 26 October 2005 he was elected a Sejm [[Marszałek sejmu|marshal]] (parliament speaker) nominated by [[Law and Justice (Poland)|Law and Justice]] with 265 votes (133 votes were given to [[Bronisław Komorowski]] from [[Civic Platform]]). On 13 April 2007 he resigned from the post, following the Sejm's failure to amend the [[Constitution of Poland|Constitution]] to protect prenatal life. On the following day, he left Law and Justice to found his own party, now known as the Right of the Republic. His resignation was accepted on 27 April 2007.

In the [[2007 Polish parliamentary election|parliamentary election in 2007]] his party did not win any seats in the Parliament as it found itself below the [[election threshold]]. On 22 June 2008 Marek Jurek took part in a by-election to the [[Senate of the Republic of Poland|Senate]], held in [[Krosno]]-constituency following the death of Senator Andrzej Mazurkiewicz. With 10 751 votes, he gained the third place after the winner [[Stanisław Zając]] ([[Law and Justice (Poland)|Law and Justice]]) and Maciej Lewicki (Civic Platform). As there was only one seat available in the Senate, Marek Jurek remains outside the Parliament.

On 27 September 2009, Jurek was awarded the Commander's Cross of the [[Order of Polonia Restituta]] for outstanding contribution to the independence of Polish Republic, for activities on behalf of democratic change, for achievements in undertaken for the benefit of the country and social work.

He was one of the candidates in the [[2010 Polish presidential election]], but received only 1.06% of votes and failed to get into the second round.