Bartosz Lech ' is one of the first members of the Polish Green Party, an organization to which he remains connected. He stood as a a candidate in the 2005 parliamentary election

Polish parliamentary election, 2005

Parliamentary elections for both houses of the Parliament of Poland were held on September 25, 2005. Thirty million voters were eligible to vote for all 460 members of the lower house, the Assembly of the Republic of Poland , and all 100 members of the upper house, the Senate of the Republic of...

 in Poland. In 2007–2008 he chaired the Young European Greens

Federation of Young European Greens

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. .

Lech's campaigns focus on European integration

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, civil liberties

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, the inclusion of minorities, sexual and reproductive health rights.

Lech is from Szczecin

Szczecin

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 in northwest Poland

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 and a graduate of the Center for Europe at Warsaw University. He was the first Polish citizen to stand as a candidate in European elections in a country other than Poland, gaining 14,000 votes in Belgium

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, where he ran as an Ecolo

Ecolo

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 candidate for the European Parliament

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. He currently resides in Belgium.