Ireneusz Zyska

Ireneusz Zyska (born 5 August 1969 in Świebodzice, Poland) is a Polish politician, lawyer, entrepreneur and local government activist, Member of the Sejm of the 8th and 9th parliamentary term, from 2019 Secretary of State in the ministries responsible for the climate.

Biography Between 1986 and 1990 he was a collaborator of Fighting Solidarity. He was active in the youth resistance movement and belonged to the Independent Youth Movement.

In 2006 and 2010, he was elected councillor of Świebodzice on the list of the KWW Bogdan Kożuchowicz (in addition, in 2007 he ran unsuccessfully for the Sejm as a non-partisan candidate on the Law and Justice list ). From 2006 to 2011, he held the position of deputy mayor of this city. and also unsuccessfully ran for the Lower Silesian Sejmik on behalf of KWW Bezpartyjni Samorządowcy.

In the 2015 parliamentary elections, he ran for the Sejm in the Wałbrzych constituency from first place on the list of the Kukiz'15 electoral committee organised by Paweł Kukiz. He won a mandate as an MP of the eighth term, receiving 7725 votes. In May 2016, he left the Kukiz'15 parliamentary club, co-founding the parliamentary circle Wolni i Solidarni (led by Kornel Morawiecki), of which he became vice-chairman. On 18 November 2016 he registered, together with Kornel Morawiecki and Małgorzata Zwiercan, a party of the same name.

In 2018, he was a Law and Justice candidate for mayor of Walbrzych. In the 21 October vote, he received 13.1% support, losing to Roman Szełoej, who won 84.5% of the vote. In December of the same year, he moved from WiS to the PiS parliamentary club. He also joined the Law and Justice party. In the 2019 parliamentary elections, he successfully ran for re-election in the same constituency, receiving 10,688 votes.

On 27 November 2019, he became Secretary of State at the Ministry of Climate (in October 2020 transformed into the Ministry of Climate and Environment). In January 2020, he became Government Plenipotentiary for Renewable Energy.