Robert Smoleń

Robert Smoleń (born May 20, 1964, in Żagań) is a Polish politician and a member of the Sejm during the fourth term.

Biography
He graduated in 1988 from the Faculty of Journalism at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. From 1988 to 1995, he worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Between 1997 and 2001, he served as the undersecretary of state in the Chancellery of President Aleksander Kwaśniewski. He held the position of a Member of Parliament in the fourth term of the Sejm, representing the Zielona Góra district and was elected from the list of the Democratic Left Alliance. Smoleń served as the deputy chairman of the Commission for Local Government and Regional Policy and as the spokesperson for the parliamentary club of the Democratic Left Alliance. From May 1 to July 19, 2004, he held the position of a Member of the European Parliament. In the 2005 elections he did not participated in election to the Sejm.

He worked as an analyst at the Polish Institute of International Affairs and later returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the early parliamentary elections in 2007, he unsuccessfully ran for the Sejm on the coalition list of the Left and Democrats. In the same year, he left the Democratic Left Alliance, and in the 2009 elections to the European Parliament, he ran on the list of the coalition committee called Agreement for the Future – CenterLeft. In the 2010 presidential elections, he was the head of Andrzej Olechowski's campaign headquarters. In September of the same year, he founded the structures of the Alliance of Democrats in Zielona Góra, and on December 11, 2010, he became a member of the party's central board.

On April 21, 2012, he was elected as the head of the Lubusz Regional Council of the Democratic Party. On March 23, 2013, he was re-elected to this position, and on April 20 of the same year, he became the deputy chairman of the party. On March 7, 2015, his resignation from the position of the head of the Democratic Party in the Lubusz Voivodeship was accepted. In the same year, he joined the campaign staff of the Democratic Party (as the representative for the Lubusz region). After the congress of the Democratic Party on April 23, 2016, he was not included in the national leadership of the party.