Przemysław Czarnek (born 11 June 1977) is a Polish politician and academic, who was voivode of the Lubelskie Voivodeship from 2015–2019.

[8] He filed a criminal case in opposition to the recognition of Ukrainian victims of the Home Army in the 1944 Sahryń massacre.

[18] Czarnek was awarded a medal for services rendered to Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) on 28 October 2019.

[9] Kitliński also stated in an online post: "The governor of Lublin Region prides himself in offending Ukrainians, Muslims, the LGBT community and women, for whom he sees no social role other than the reproduction of children".

[20] According to Catholic University of Lublin professor of theology Alfred Wierzbicki [pl], Czarnek's politics come "from the extreme right of the National Radical Camp".

It has been described as controversial due to its implied criticism of the teachings on liberal issues such as LGBT rights and sex education, and was vetoed by the President in 2022.

[29] Czarnek described the 2018 Lublin Equality March as "promoting pedophilia", and said that it should be banned, in contrast to the right of freedom of assembly.

[32] During the 2020 Polish presidential election campaign Czarnek stated in a live television broadcast that "[we] should stop listening to this nonsense about human rights, or any equality.

[36] On 3 August 2020, Czarnek stated that it was certain that "LGBT ideology was derived from neo-marxism and came from the same roots as German Hitlerian national socialism.

[38] In July 2018, a commemoration of the Sahryń massacre, in which hundreds of Ukrainian civilians were killed by the Polish Home Army on 10 March 1944, was held.

[9] He officially informed the police that the commemoration was, according to him, a crime by the president of the Lublin Ukrainians' Association under the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance.

[8] In 2019, Czarnek opposed a memorial by Polish artist Dorota Nieznalska that commemorated Jews who were killed by Poles during and after the Holocaust.