Jarosław Gowin

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Jarosław Gowin (born December 4, 1961 in Cracow) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Senate on September 25, 2005, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska. During the 2007 Polish parliamentary elections, he was Platforma's leader in the Cracow constituency after Jan Rokita decided not to run. He was elected to the Sejm with 160,465 votes, which gave him second place, just short of Zbigniew Ziobro. Gowin has a PhD in philosophy and is the founder and deacon of Cracow's Jozef Tischner Higher European School, which is named after his one-time professor and personal friend Józef Tischner. He is the former editor of the Znak monthly and is known to be an expert on the philosophy of John Paul II, having established the first graduate course in Poland dedicated to the field.

He is one of the first proponents of introducing school vouchers in Poland, and he believes that privatization is necessary for the improvement of Polish education standards.

[edit] See also

• Polish parliamentary election, 2005
• Polish parliamentary election, 2007

[edit] External links

• - parliamentary page - includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches (in Polish)
• - Personal page - includes biographical information as well as articles authored by Gowin (in Polish)