Patryk Jaki

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Patryk Jaki
Patryk Jaki (2024)
Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 July 2019
Personal details
Born	(1985-05-11) 11 May 1985 (age 39) Opole, Poland
Political party	Sovereign Poland (2013–present) Law and Justice (2003–2006, 2006–2013) Civic Platform (2006)
Spouse	Anna Jaki
Children	2
Alma mater	University of Wrocław
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Patryk Tomasz Jaki (born 11 May 1985) is a Polish politician, member of the European Parliament, former Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice (First Deputy Minister of Justice) and First Deputy Attorney General, former Chairman of the Verification Committee for Reprivatisation since 2017.

Jaki attended the University of Wrocław, where he earned a Master of Arts in political science. He submitted a thesis at the War Studies Academy in 2019, setting out his ideas on Polish penitentiary system and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree for it.^[1]

On 18 November 2015, Jaki became Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice^[2][3] responsible for, among other things, supervision over the Prison Service.^[4] He was also appointed Plenipotentiary of the Minister of Justice for the Implementation of the Electronic Monitoring System.^[5] He drafted an amendment to the existing law to prohibit depriving parents of the right of custody of their children on grounds of their bad financial situation.^[6][7] He has been entrusted with oversight over the establishment of the Museum of Cursed Soldiers and Political Prisoners of the Polish People's Republic.^{[8][failed verification]} He is also the chairman of the Team for the Protection of Family Autonomy and Family Life in the Ministry of Justice.

Jaki initiated the establishment of the Verification Committee for Reprivatisation^{[9][failed verification][10]} and became its chairman on 11 May 2017.^[11][12][13] He has been the author of a registry of sex offenders in Poland since 1 October of the same year,^[14][15] as well as a government programme for the employment of prisoners which has helped to increase employment among convicts by 50%.^[16][17]

Jaki is the chairman of the Polish Council of Penitentiary Policy.^[18] He stated that "stopping Islamization is his Westerplatte".^[19][20]

On 11 October, Jaki received the "Polski Kompas" (Poland's Compass)^[21] award granted by the Gazeta Bankowa monthly for his "fight against a reprivatisation mafia".^[22]

Jaki gained almost 260,000 votes in the 2019 European Parliament election in Poland.^[23] He is responsible for the "Save the Heroes" campaign promoting the restoration of streets named in honor of generals Emil August Fieldorf "Nil" and Zygmunt Szendzielarz "Łupaszka”, as well as the legislation initiative "Let's Restore History Lessons at Schools”^[24]

On 14 September 2013, Jaki married Anna Kuszkiewicz (in Cathedral Basilica of the Holy Cross, Opole).^[25] They have a son named Radosław, who was born with Down syndrome in 2014,^[26] and a daughter named Aleksandra (b. 2020).