Robert Biedroń

Faithful to Your Movement's values, to social liberalism, secularism and a Europhile vision of the EU; he advocates for a separation of church and state in practice and not just in words, for the removal of catechism classes from public schools, he supports feminism (notably the right to abortion for all women), same-sex marriages in Poland, free access to contraception and sexual education.

[4] Biedroń founded the Institute for Democratic Thought (Instytut Myśli Demokratycznej), a progressive think-tank which conducted a program entitled Scenarios for Poland.

Robert Biedroń has also built the Progressive Cities' network – a platform of cities' cooperation and good practice exchange aimed at supporting local, progressive politics based on participatory democracy, transparency and an open local community.

Biedroń is the author of several books, notably a handbook on the functioning of a democracy for children Turn Democracy On (Włącz Demokrację), his autobiography Against the current (Pod prąd) and a book entitled New Chapter (Nowy rozdział) which contains his political reflections, published a few months before the launch of his political party.

In 2005, Biedroń was an unsuccessful Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) candidate for the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament.

[8] Biedroń ran in the mayoral elections in Słupsk in 2014, a city of around 95,000 inhabitants located in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.

He decided for instance to waive his official car, he requested to the City Council to lower his wage and he closed several local agencies.

Besides this, he was a member of the Advisory Group on Gender, Forced Displacement and Protection created by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

On 4 September 2018, Biedroń launched what he termed a "pro-democratic" political movement aimed at challenging the ruling Law and Justice party.

In December, he announced the first goals of his yet unnamed party: shutting down all coal mines in Poland by 2035, improving the health care system and ending state subsidies to the church.

Biedroń is currently the Chair of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) [14] In June 2023, Biedroń was the recipient of the Diversity, Inclusion and Social Impact Award at The Parliament Magazine's annual MEP Awards[15] In January 2020, his candidacy received the support of the Democratic Left Alliance,[16] Left Together[17] and Spring,[18] which jointly issued him in the presidential election in the same year.

[19] After the Supreme Court of Poland ruled in 2020 that abortions in cases of foetal defects are unconstitutional, Biedroń called on the European Commission to "widen the scope" of Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union — which at present is limited to concerns over the judiciary — to women's rights.

[21] On 27 September 2023 they married in an informal, non-legally binding ceremony,[22] as Poland does not legally recognize same-sex marriage.

The title of 'Rainbow Man' (2004) [25] Distinction in the ranking of the 10 best MPs of the weekly magazine Polityka conducted among Polish parliamentary journalists for diligence, culture and contribution to the work of the Justice Committee [26] Radio Tok FM's Anna Laszuk Award (2015).

Robert Biedroń during the Spring party election convention, 2019