Paweł Piotr Kukiz (born 24 June 1963) is a Polish politician, singer and actor. He is the leader of Kukiz'15, a non-partisan political alliance campaigning for single-member districts, and was a candidate in the 2015 presidential election, in which he received 21% of the votes in the first round of the elections, finishing third. Kukiz has been a member of Polish parliament since 2015. He was a co-leader of the Polish Coalition, until Kukiz'15 left in late 2020.
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Biography
Kukiz is the grandson of Marian Kukiz, leader of the State Police of the Second Polish Republic, and the son of Marianne and Thaddeus (doctor and Kresy activist). Since 1991 he has been married to Małgorzata. They have three daughters together: Julia (born in 1991), Paula (born in 1994) and Hanna (born in 2000).
A musician by profession, he received a general secondary education. In Niemodlin, he attended primary school and graduated from general secondary school in 1981. A few years later, in 1984, in Niemodlin, Kukiz formed the band Piersi together with Rafal Eżyrski, Zbyszek Mozdzerski and Orin. He studied administration at the University of Wrocław, and then law and political science at the University of Warsaw, but did not graduate from either of these universities.
In the 1980s, he was the founder and vocalist of various rock bands such as CDN, Hak and Aya RL. From 1984 to 2013 he was the leader of Piersi, with which he released nine albums.