Jarosław Wałęsa

Polish politician (born 1976)

Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa (; born 13 September 1976 in Gdańsk) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 14,709 votes in 25 Gdańsk district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list. He is the son of former Polish President Lech Wałęsa.

Wałęsa had gone to High School in his hometown (V Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Stefana Żeromskiego w Gdańsku) during the period 1990 1994 before he became a 1995 graduate of Glastonbury High School, in Connecticut, where he spent his last high school year as a foreign exchange student. He then attended the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. On 2 September 2011 Jarosław was injured seriously while riding his motorcycle after colliding with a SUV in Stropkowo near Sierpc. His injuries included a broken spine and dozens of fractures, and he was still undergoing corrective surgeries in July 2015. He married Ewelina Jachymek in a civil ceremony in 2012, and in a convent in 2013. Their son Wiktor was born in March 2014, becoming the twelfth grandson of Lech Wałęsa. As a result of the European Parliament's election of June 2009, he became a member of the parliament. In 2014, he was re elected. He lost his brother, Przemyslaw, (born 1974), Lech Wałęsa's third son, a border guard, who lived in the Morena district in Gdańsk, on 8 January 2017. Wałęsa became the director of the Civic Institute, said to be the research institute of Civic Platform, a Polish political party, on 16 June 2015.