Robert Bąkiewicz

Robert Bąkiewicz is a Polish politician and activist. From 2017 to 2023, he served as president of the Independence [March (Poland)|Independence March Association].

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Early life

In 2017, Bąkiewicz created the YouTube channel Media Narodowe. As of 2022, it had 250 thousand subscribers. He founded the TV station TV Media Narodowe in 2023 and served as its president until 2024.
In 2019, he founded the Rota Independence March Association. In 2020, he founded the National Guard. In 2023, he founded the Pod Wierzbami Foundation. In March 2025, he founded the Border Defence Movement.
In the 2018 local elections, Bąkiewicz was a candidate for mayor of Pruszków. In 2023, he joined Sovereign Poland. In the 2023 parliamentary election, he was a candidate for the Sejm on the Law and Justice list in Radom. In 2024, he founded the political party Independence.

Controversy

In 2023, he was convicted of having violated the bodily integrity of activist Katarzyna Augustynek during the women's strike in 2020. However, in 2025, he was pardoned by president Andrzej Duda.