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Grzegorz Braun
MEP
Portrait photograph of Grzegorz Braun from 2024
Official portrait, 2024
Member of the European Parliament
for Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie
Incumbent
Assumed office
16 July 2024
Parliamentary groupNon-Inscrits
Member of the Sejm
In office
12 November 2019 – 15 July 2024
ConstituencyNo. 23 (Rzeszów)
Chairman of the Confederation of the Polish Crown
Incumbent
Assumed office
7 September 2019
Personal details
Born (1967-03-11) 11 March 1967 (age 58)
Toruń, Poland
Political partyConfederation of the Polish Crown
Other political
affiliations		Confederation Freedom and Independence (until 2025)
SpouseAleksandra Braun
Children3[1]
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Grzegorz Michał Braun[2] (born 11 March 1967)[3] is a Polish politician. He served as a member of the Sejm, the lower house of Poland's parliament, for Rzeszów[note 1] from 2019 to 2024. He has been Chairman of the Confederation of the Polish Crown (abbreviated in Polish as KKP) since 2019 and a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie since 2024.[4][5]

Braun's political career began when he announced his candidacy in the 2015 presidential election. He formed the campaign committee "God Bless You!", but received a minimal percentage of the vote. His political journey continued with his participation in discussions on European and Russian relations and his candidacies in various elections including for the mayoral office of Gdańsk and the European Parliament. Despite electoral setbacks, he was elected to the Sejm at the 2019 parliamentary election. He was reelected at the 2023 parliamentary election. Braun's tenure in politics has been marked by controversy, including inflammatory remarks during the COVID-19 pandemic and endorsements of independent nuclear capabilities for Poland.

Braun holds anti-American,[6] anti-Ukrainian,[7][8][9] antisemitic,[10] anti-Zionist[11] and anti-LGBTQ[12] views, and has been broadly described as far-right.[13] He aligns with Traditionalist Catholicism and Polish nationalism.[14] His tenure in the Sejm was characterised by numerous antisemitic incidents. In 2023 he invaded a Holocaust lecture, destroyed equipment and made derogatory comments about Jews. Later that year he extinguished a Hanukkah menorah in the Sejm, leading to his exclusion from the session.

Biography

Grzegorz Michał Braun was born in Toruń, Poland.[15] He is the son of Kazimierz Braun, a theater director and writer. According to Braun's sister Monika Braun, their family immigrated to what is now Lviv, Ukraine, from Austria in the 18th century. Kazimierz Braun denies that the family has any Jewish heritage.[16]

He graduated from the University of Wrocław in 1987, and completed postgraduate studies at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Faculty of Radio and Television at the University of Silesia in Katowice in 1993. From 1987 onwards he co-organised activities of the Orange Alternative, for which he was oppressed by the communist government of the Polish People's Republic. In 1988 and 1989, he participated in student protests at the University of Wrocław. He was also active in the Polish-Czech-Slovak Solidarity.[15]

Later, he also was a journalist for, inter alia, the Option Right[17] and the Polskie Radio Wrocław. He was involved with the Polish Monarchists Organisation,[18] for which he contributed written works and lectures. He is involved with "Wake-up Call" ("Pobudka"),[19] an organisation that he has founded[20] to strengthen the self-sustainability of faith communities and the internet show Sumienie Narodu.[21][better source needed]

Braun is a Traditionalist Catholic.[22] He is fiercely critical of Protestantism in Poland and has often debated Protestants in public.[14] Braun is a monarchist and is a critic of democracy.[23][24][25]

Political career

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In September 2012 Braun called for the execution by firing squad of journalists from Gazeta Wyborcza and TVN,[26] which led to an official investigation.[27] In 2023 the Prosecutor's Office dismissed the case.[28]

On 5 August 2015 he formed his own campaign committee, God Bless You! (Szczęść Boże!),[29] and received 13,113 votes amounting to 0.09 per cent of the total cast.[30]

Journalist Roman Warszawski and Braun in 2022

In January 2019 Braun announced his candidacy for the mayoral office of Gdańsk. The election was called after the murder of Mayor Paweł Adamowicz. Braun's candidacy was endorsed by Janusz Korwin-Mikke and the National Movement. On 4 March 2019 it was determined that Braun received 11.86 per cent of votes and thus conceded to the winner, Aleksandra Dulkiewicz, who received 82.22 per cent of the votes.[31]

In the 2019 European Parliament election in Poland Braun was the leading candidate for the Confederation Liberty and Independence in the 9th constituency encompassing the territory of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship. Although his list received 5.89 per cent of the vote, the best result for Confederation in the country, the coalition failed to reach the 5 per cent threshold nationwide and so he did not pick up the seat.[32]

In the 2019 Polish parliamentary election Braun was the leading candidate for the Confederation Liberty and Independence in the Rzeszów Constituency, located in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship. He built on his success from the last election, and his list received 8.25 per cent of the vote, which was again the best result for the Confederation nationwide. This time Braun picked up the seat, as did 10 other candidates from the Confederation.[33]

He was a candidate in the 2020 Confederation presidential primary. He made it into the final round of voting where he lost to Krzysztof Bosak. He immediately endorsed Bosak and said he would campaign for him.[34]

In September 2021 Braun, in a speech in the Sejm, accused the government of increasing suicide rates in children via their actions to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. He finished his speech addressing the minister of health, Adam Niedzielski, with the words "You will hang" (Będziesz pan wisiał).[35][36] These statements caused Braun to be excluded from further participation in that Sejm's sitting.[37] Niedzielski, along with the Speaker of the Sejm, Elżbieta Witek, filed to press punishable threat charges against Braun, which were later dropped by the prosecutor citing "no signs of a crime". The claimants complained about the decision alleging insufficient investigation and lack of interrogation of the witnesses. In the following weeks Braun broke into the building of the Health Ministry, which, according to Niedzielski, was connected to Braun's words and his ties to the anti-vaccine movement. However, the court sustained the prosecutor's decision and provided an explanation that Braun's words, while inappropriate, were merely criticism, and that Niedzielski's alleged fear would have been irrational.[38]

In October 2021 Braun was fined 20,000zł (US$5181.35) for refusing to wear a face mask in the Sejm during the COVID-19 pandemic; he maintains that his actions were "consistent with Polish law".[39] He had previously spoken at an anti-mask protest in Bydgoszcz in 2020, where he compared the mask mandate to the Nazis forcing Jews to wear armbands as a precursor to sending them to ghettos and then to extermination camps.[40]

On 27 January 2023 Braun destroyed a Christmas tree decorated with baubles themed with Ukrainian, EU and LGBTQ pride flags located in the building of the Kraków District Court. He said that he had staged a "parliamentary intervention".[41][42][43]

On 4 June 2024 Braun and a group of supporters pulled down the Ukrainian flag atop Kościuszko Mound.[44][45]

Braun was elected to the European Parliament in the 2024 European Parliament election.[46]

Grzegorz Braun speaking in the European Parliament (2024)

On 7 October 2024, during a debate on the first anniversary of the Hamas-led attack on Israel that initiated the Gaza war in the European Parliament, Braun called for Israel to be designated a terrorist state, describing Benjamin Netanyahu and his government as the "largest and most criminal terrorist organisation".[11]

On 12 October, Braun stated that, "the Polish Army should not lift a finger in the defence of a small, depopulated, nasty, anti-Polish, Bismarck, Anglo-Saxon and Jewish creature, that is modern Lithuania".[47]

Logo for the Grzegorz Braun 2025 presidential campaign

On 15 January 2025, Braun announced he would run for President of Poland in the upcoming election, confirming previous speculations.[48] He declared his intent despite the fact that the Confederation Liberty and Independence (KWiN) leadership had designated Sławomir Mentzen as its presidential candidate back in August 2024.[49][50] As a result Braun was expelled from the party on 17 January.[51] Janusz Korwin-Mikke, founder and former member of the KWiN, has expressed support for Braun's candidacy.[52]

On 18 March 2025, Braun vandalised a public exhibition on the old town market square in Opole titled There is more of us! Let's provoke equality by the local LGBTQ organisation, depicting equality marches history in the city. He wrote with a spray paint "Stop to the propaganda of deviation" on the display boards.[53] He reported the exhibition to the police, claiming that it violated Article 140 of the Code on Petty Offenses, which prohibits "indecent behaviour" in public.[54] In response, Opole mayor Arkadiusz Wiśniewski announced the cancellation of Braun's contract for renting a hall in the Exhibition and Congress Centre for a campaign event.[55][56] He said that the city would seek damages of 35,000zł (US$8326.06) from Braun.[57]

In April 2025 the Never Again Association published a report about the Polish far right's praise of the racist killer Janusz Waluś, who in 1993 assassinated South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani.[58] According to this report Braun has long supported Waluś, undertaking parliamentary interventions to obtain his release from life imprisonment and promoting fundraisers for him. He also defended Waluś’s crime, stating, among other things, ‘In my world, shooting communist party secretaries can be a noble act, because committed out of necessity’.[59][60]

On 16 April 2025 Braun, along with MP Roman Fritz and a group of activists, attempted a citizen's arrest of a gynaecologist working at a hospital in Oleśnica:[61] Braun and his group prevented the gynecologist from leaving her office, Braun called her a "serial murderer", and pushed her. The police were called, but they did not arrest Braun or his group.[62][63] The doctor had previously legally aborted a 37-week-old foetus since its severe congenital bone fragility would have caused a significant risk to the mother; the fetus also had a very high chance of being a stillbirth. After the incident, the doctor was harassed and doxxed on social media and the hospital was sent bomb threats.[64] Braun's sister condemned his actions in an article for the newspaper Tygodnik Powszechny, and said that "the line has been crossed".[65]

On 30 April, a supporter of Braun took down a Ukrainian flag hanging from the Biała Podlaska town hall and replaced it with a Polish flag, after which Braun thanked him for his actions and shook his hand. Braun later took responsibility for the incident and said that the Ukrainian flag would be delivered to the closest Ukrainian consulate.[66][67]

As at April 2025, Braun was polling between 1% to 4% in the 2025 Polish presidential election.[citation needed] According to a survey conducted by Opinia24 between 6–7 May for Fakty TVN, 4% of 1000 respondents said that they would vote for Braun.[68] In a survey conducted by the Pollster Research Institute (Polish: Instytut Badań Pollster) for Super Express between 7–8 May 2025, out of 1,077 respondents, 5.3% responded that they would vote for Braun if the presidential election were held that Sunday, 11 May 2025.[69]

On 6 May 2025 the European Parliament voted in favour of removing Braun's EU-level immunity from prosecution;[70][71] the Polish prosecutor's office had requested it a day before.[72]

Grzegorz Braun during a meeting with voters, the rally took place on 30 May 2024 in Krynica Zdrój on the promenade

Also on 6 May, Braun travelled to the Ministry of Industry in Katowice with Roman Fritz and a group of supporters, where they demanded to meet with Minister Marzena Czarnecka. After being told that she was attending a meeting in Warsaw, they asked to see the acting minister, Kinga Okrzesik-Faruga, and said that they were staging a "parliamentary intervention". They posed questions to Okrzesik-Faruga regarding her role in the ministry and the liquidation of coal mines, which she said she would answer in writing.[73] While leaving the building, Braun stole a flag of Europe from the lobby of the building after a short argument with ministry employees, trampled upon the flag, drove with it to the Wujek mine, wiped his shoes with it, and burnt it under the monument to the miners killed there.[74][75] He posted a recording of the flag burning on Twitter with the caption "The miners of the "Wujek" mine and others died at the hands of the Soviet authorities not so that a Euro-Soviet regime would be established on Polish soil today."[76]

Braun's 2025 presidential campaign had the endorsement of the former Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland candidate Aldona Skirgiełło, PolExit, Real Europe Movement and National Rebirth of Poland.[77][78][79][80]

On the first round of voting on 18 May 2025, Braun placed fourth and won 6.3% of the vote.[81][82]

On 11 June 2025, Braun destroyed a LGBT exhibition in the Sejm.[83] The exhibition was composed of display boards, which were thrown on the floor, bent, and trampled upon by Braun. He was escorted out of the building by security.[84] As a result of this, on 14 June 2025, Braun was barred from entering the Sejm and Senate Complex.[85][86] The Marshal of the Sejm, Szymon Hołownia, said that "there is no place for hooligans in the Sejm". He also said that as a result of the incident, he changed the Marshal Guard's instructions to allow physical force against people with legal immunity that are destroying property.[87] The Deputy Marshal of the Sejm, Krzysztof Bosak, condemned both Braun's behaviour, which he called "inconsistent with the regulations of the Sejm", and the exhibition, which he said was "in line with negative ideological trends".[88]

2025 Results of Braun. He obtained the highest result in gmina Podedwórze (20,16%), and the lowest in Krynica Morska (3,17%)

Antisemitic incidents

On 30 May 2023 Braun disrupted a lecture on the Holocaust by the historian Jan Grabowski at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw by invading the room and destroying the microphone and speakers. He told the director of the institute, Milos Reznik, that "[a] German in Warsaw is not going to tell me I shouldn't damage something. Get out of Warsaw, now!" after he was criticized by him for destroying the institute's property. Braun refused to leave when instructed to do so by police, using his immunity from prosecution as a member of European Parliament.[89] Braun has been quoted accusing Jews of being "the enemies of Poland" and alleging their desire to undertake a "hostile takeover" of Polish territory and to place ethnic Poles in reservations, an allegory for Indian reservations.[90][91][92] Braun has also claimed there exists a plan to turn Poland into a "Jewish state".[93]

On 12 December 2023, during the first session of the 10th term of Sejm, he put out a Hanukkah menorah with a fire extinguisher, saying that "The people participating in the Satanic cult should be ashamed".[94][95] Security guards ordered the area to be evacuated because of the resultant white cloud of aerosol.[96] A woman was taken to a hospital due to respiratory issues caused by the resultant fumes.[97] He was excluded from the ongoing session of the Sejm, and punished by having his parliamentary allowance withheld for six months.[98] The speaker of the Sejm, Szymon Hołownia, announced that a criminal complaint would be filed with prosecutors.[96][99] Hołownia also sent an inquiry to a police commissioner to verify whether Braun has a firearm permit, as he received information from the Marshal Guard that Braun asked in the past if he can deposit a personal firearm in Sejm.[100]

Braun's actions and statements have led to criticism from within his own party. Sławomir Mentzen, one of the leaders of the Confederation party, condemned Braun's actions, stating his intent to take further steps in addressing the situation.[90] Additionally, Cardinal Grzegorz Ryś, Archbishop of Łódź, said he was "ashamed and I apologise to the whole Jewish community in Poland" following the incident.[101] Braun has denied having racist motives and described his actions as a response to what he perceives as "Satanic, Talmudist triumphalism" of Jewish holidays.[90]

In December 2023 the Never Again Association released a report about antisemitic, xenophobic and other hateful incidents of Braun.[102][103] On 30 December Braun delivered a speech to his supporters in which he said "us non-Jews have only one choice: to serve like animals, like cattle…This is a teaching spread for 2,000 years [by Jews], since the manger and the cross of Christ were rejected ... Do you want a future for your children that is shared by children in Gaza today? Do you want such a fate for Polish children? A fate of slaves, subhumans, at the mercy of the Jewish Übermensch?"[104]

On 17 January 2024 the Sejm voted to lift Braun's immunity from criminal prosecution in relation to his attack on the Hanukkah menorah. Prosecutors previously said that they intended to charge him with seven counts also included earlier incidents of alleged aggression against a former health minister and public property. If convicted, he faces up to five years' imprisonment.[105]

On 29 January 2025 Braun disrupted a moment of silence held during the European Parliament's sitting in commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day by shouting "Let's pray for the victims of the Jewish genocide in Gaza".[106] He was subsequently excluded from the meeting and escorted out.[107][108]

During the presidential debates on 28 April 2025, he argued that "Jews have too much, far too much to say in Polish matters" and “the genocidal policies promoted by ministers, rabbis, and generals of the state of Israel could easily be turned against us.”[109] He criticized presidential candidate Rafał Trzaskowski for previously wearing a "Jewish daffodil", referring to a yellow daffodil worn annually to commemorate the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, calling the flower "a symbol of shame".[110]

Views

Braun has criticized foreign influence in Poland, calling it a "Russo-German condominium under a Jewish-American trusteeship".[111] He has called the Museum of the History of Polish Jews POLIN a propaganda-disinformation centre.[112]

Braun repeatedly criticized the Law and Justice party, calling their MPs "the followers of Gog and Magog, destroyers of Polish tradition and Latin civilization" and "a reenactment group of Sanation".[113][114]

Braun calls for Poland to independently maintain and operate nuclear weapons.[115]

Braun supports the penalization of homosexual activity.[116]

Braun praised vigilante groups, organized by football hooligans, that assaulted and harassed ethnic minorities in Przemyśl.[117][118]

Russia and Ukraine

Braun has been described as pro-Russian.[119] He was interviewed by Sputnik in 2019,[120] and has been praised by the Russian media for his stances on Ukraine since the beginning of the 2022 invasion.[121] On 25 June 2022, Braun took part in a pro-Russian rally; he addressed his speech to Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Joe Biden, proclaiming "President Joe Biden, if you still trust God, let your private interest and the interest of American corporations, that sell weapons to Ukraine, along with entire America, kneel in humility in front of God's almightiness(...)".[122] During a debate in the European Parliament, Braun stated, that the military aid to Ukraine is not helping the Ukrainian people, but only prolonging the war, after which his microphone was cut off.[123] During a statement in the Sejm, Braun blamed Ukraine for the war and claimed that it was caused by a discriminatory language law towards ethnic Russians.[124]

Braun opposes Polish aid to Ukrainian refugees. He launched a campaign titled "Stop the Ukrainization of Poland", which was intended to dissuade the public from supporting the refugees by "exaggerating the potential cultural impact of absorbing so many Ukrainians and emphasizing the historical differences between the two nations".[125] He demanded that the government remove the right of Ukrainian citizens to apply for a temporary residency permit and close the Polish-Ukrainian border to Ukrainians to prevent a major shift in Poland's demographics.[126] He claimed that his party was actively fighting against the "banderization" and "ukrainization" of Poland by trying to prevent the influx of Ukrainian refugees.[121] Paulina Nodzyńska, writing for Gazeta Wyborcza, said that Braun was at the "forefront" of internet anti-Ukrainian propaganda.[127]

Notes

  1. ^ Officially Constituency no. 23

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