Marek Woch
Marek Woch is a Polish politician, leader of the Bezpartyjni Samorządowcy and candidate for the 2025 Polish presidential election.
Biography
Marek Woch was born on 17 December 1978 in Kąkolewnica. Despite finishing a vocational school, he continued his education in law.Between 2016 and 2019, he was the plenipotentiary of the chairman of the National Health Fund for Contacts with Non-Governmental Organisations and Public Authorities.
As a politician, Woch contested several elections. In 2013, 2014 and 2018, he ran for Wójt of his home Gmina of Kąkolewnica. In 2013, he received 84 votes. In 2014, he received 141 votes. In 2018, he received 170 votes, and his allies to the Gmina council received 235 votes and no seats. In the 2015 parliamentary election, he ran for a seat in the Senate, winning 11,413 votes. Woch contested the 2019 European Parliament election for Poland Fair Play, getting 2,040 votes. A few months later he ran in the 2019 parliamentary election, winning 1,314 votes. Woch contested the 2023 Polish parliamentary election, winning 2,500 votes, the 2024 European Parliament election, winning 3,326 votes in Warsaw, and the 2024 Polish local elections, winning 1,933 votes.
He declared his candidacy in the 2025 Polish presidential election, successfully registering and earning the endorsement of the Social Alternative, Labour Party and Slavic Union parties, though being soundly defeated, coming last with 0.09% of the vote.
Woch endorsed the Law and Justice candidate for the second round Karol Nawrocki.