Adrian Zandberg

Adrian Tadeusz Zandberg (born 4 December 1979) is a Polish historian and computer programmer, doctor of humanities and left-wing politician, member of the Board of the Razem (Together) party.[1]

Adrian Zandberg
Adrian Zandberg (2020)
Member of the Sejm
Assumed office
12 November 2019
Member of the National Executive of Partia Razem
Assumed office
16 May 2015
Personal details
Born
Adrian Tadeusz Zandberg

(1979-12-04) 4 December 1979
Aalborg, Denmark
NationalityPolish
Political partyPartia Razem
Height1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)
Spouse(s)Barbara Audycka-Zandberg
Children2
OccupationPolitician

Life

His parents moved in 1967 from Poland to Denmark, where Zandberg was born in 1979. In 1985 his family moved back to Poland. After studying history at Warsaw University, he received his doctorate for his dissertation about British and German left-wing social democratic movements. He also studied computer science at a Polish-Japanese computing academy.

Political career

As a student he devoted himself to politics. On 14 November 2001, he published an article in the "Gazeta Wyborcza" daily newspaper written together with civil rights activist Jacek Kuroń on the topic of social justice in Poland.[2]

He was elected chairman of the youth wing (Forum Młodych) of the Labour United party (Unia Pracy), was a member of the executive of this party and founded the Federation of Young Socialists (Młodzi Socjaliści).[1]

Partia Razem

In May 2015, he became one of the founders of Partia Razem, a new political party, and was elected to the nine-member Board, together with Jakub Baran, Aleksandra Cacha, Alicja Czubek, Maciej Konieczny, Magdalena Malińska, Mateusz Mirys, Katarzyna Paprota, and Marcelina Zawisza.[3]

Zandberg was placed on the first place on Razem's Warsaw candidate list of the Sejm elections in October 2015. As a Razem party representative during a television debate before the 2015 parliamentary elections, held in Poland on 25 October he represented the smallest of the eight parties. Among other positions, he was the only one of the eight panelists who pleaded for an unconditional acceptance of Syrian war refugees in Poland. Following the debate, some of the media declared him the winner of this discussion, and his appearance at the debate generated more media interest in him and his party in the following days.[4] Zandberg received personally 49,711 votes, but his party won only 3.62 percent of votes, so did not gain any seats in the Sejm.[5]

While some commentators claimed that the increase in popularity of Razem was at the expense of the United Left coalition (among others consisting of SLD, PPS, Greens and Twój Ruch), which also did not win any seats, resulting in neither left-wing party being represented in the new parliament,[6] others, including United Left leader Barbara Nowacka,[7] disagreed with that assessment, pointing out that Razem attracted mostly new electorate, and few of its voters had voted for SLD or Twój Ruch in previous elections[8] and that the decrease in popularity of United Left's member parties had been a steady process over the years[9] due to past errors.[10]

Private life

He is married and has two children. As of 2015, he works professionally as a computer programmer.[11]

Electoral History
Sejm
Election Party Votes % Constituency Elected?
2015 Together 49,711 4.54 Warsaw I No
2019 The Left 140,898 10.20 Yes
European Parliament
Election Party Votes % Constituency Elected?
2019 Left Together 17,108 1.23 Warsaw No

"Interview with Adrian Zandberg (in English)". OpenDemocracy. 2016-08-10. Retrieved 2016-08-17.

References
  1. Biography – Polityka – 21 October 2015
  2. Third Polish Republic for everybody
  3. Razem rośnie w siłę - Lewica.pl
  4. "Adrian Zandberg zwycięzcą debaty? Internet oszalał na punkcie polityka Partii Razem" (in Polish). Wyborcza.pl. 2015-10-20. Retrieved 2015-10-29.
  5. "Sejm elections". Archived from the original on 2015-11-17. Retrieved 2015-10-28.
  6. "Adrian Zandberg: Pogrzebał lewicę, załatwił PiS wiktorię. Bo wygrał Debatę" (in Polish). Newsweek.pl. 2015-10-26. Archived from the original on 2015-10-29. Retrieved 2015-10-29.
  7. Nowacka: czuję wewnętrzną potrzebę, żeby poprosić kolegów i koleżanki o weryfikację
  8. "MAJMUREK: DLACZEGO NIE ŻAŁUJĘ GŁOSU NA RAZEM" (in Polish). Krytyka Polityczna. 2015-10-26. Retrieved 2015-10-29.
  9. "Anna Grodzka: Czy Adrian Zandberg jest grabarzem Leszka Millera?" (in Polish). Medium Publiczne. 2015-10-26. Retrieved 2015-10-29.
  10. "Ekspert: porażka Zjednoczonej Lewicy skutkiem grzechów przeszłości" (in Polish). Gazeta Wyborcza. 2015-10-28. Retrieved 2015-10-29.
  11. "Zandberg's page". Archived from the original on 2015-10-22. Retrieved 2015-10-28.
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