Bartłomiej Wróblewski, a PiS MP and doctor of law, was elected by the Sejm as the Ombudsman. During the Thursday vote in the Sejm, the candidacy of Bartłomiej Wróblewski was supported by 240 MPs. 201 MPs voted against and 11 abstained (including Bartłomiej Wróblewski and the MPs of the Agreement - Wojciech Maksymowicz and Michał Wypij).

Three people applied for the office of the Ombudsman: Bartłomiej Wróblewski, who ran on behalf of PiS, Sławomir Patyra - candidate of the Civic Coalition and PSL, and Piotr Ikonowicz, who was supported by the Left. Ikonowicz was supported by 80 MPs, 250 were against and 114 abstained. There were 204 MPs for Sławomir Patyra, 232 against, and 16 abstained.

The election has to be approved by the Senate - and the opposition has the majority. If the Senate does not consent to the appointment of an ombudsman, the Seym will be forced to appoint another person to this position.

In 2017, Bartłomiej Wróblewski prepared an application to the Constitutional Tribunal to examine the compliance of the anti-abortion act (more precisely - the part concerning abortion due to serious defects) with the Constitution. However, heavy criticism from feminist circles caused the application to be withdrawn.

Once again, the issue returned to the wallpaper in 2019, when Wróblewski, together with PiS MPs, some Confederation MPs, and Kukiz'15 submitted a motion on the same issue. On October 22, a sentence was passed granting the motion, under which abortion regulations in Poland were tightened, and in Poland, there was a wave of protests as part of the National Women's Strike.

The deputy is also one of the 15 PiS parliamentarians who opposed the law on the protection of animal rights, supported by Jarosław Kaczyński in September 2020. Wróblewski was then suspended as a PiS member for breaking club discipline. In November of the same year, the suspension was terminated.

(Gazeta.pl)