Grzegorz Braun

Grzegorz Michał Braun (born 11 March 1967) is a Polish politician. He served as a member of the Sejm, the lower house of Poland's parliament, for Rzeszów from 2019 to 2024. He has been Chairman of the Confederation of the Polish Crown (abbreviated in Polish as KKP) since 2019 and a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie since 2024.

Braun's political career began when he announced his candidacy in the 2015 presidential election. He formed the campaign committee "God Bless You!", but received a minimal percentage of the vote. His political journey continued with his participation in discussions on European and Russian relations and his candidacies in various elections including for the mayoral office of Gdańsk and the European Parliament. Despite electoral setbacks, he was elected to the Sejm at the 2019 parliamentary election. He was reelected at the 2023 parliamentary election. Braun's tenure in politics has been marked by controversy, including inflammatory remarks during the COVID-19 pandemic and endorsements of independent nuclear capabilities for Poland.

Braun holds anti-American, anti-Ukrainian, antisemitic, anti-Zionist and anti-LGBTQ views, and has been broadly described as far-right. He aligns with Traditionalist Catholicism and Polish nationalism. His tenure in the Sejm was characterised by numerous antisemitic incidents. In 2023 he invaded a Holocaust lecture, destroyed equipment and made derogatory comments about Jews. Later that year he extinguished a Hanukkah menorah in the Sejm, leading to his exclusion from the session.