Włodzimierz Skalik

Skalik was born in Radomsko.^[1] He studied at the National Defense University of Warsaw.^[2][3]

Skalik began his aviation training at the Częstochowa Aero Club (a regional branch of the Polish Aero Club) in 1975.^[3] In March 2010, he was elected president of the Polish Aero Club, a position he held until March 2018. Also in 2010, Skalik became one of the vice-presidents of the World Air Sports Federation (FAI).^[2][4]

In 2006, Skalik was elected as a councilor of the Silesian Voivodeship Sejmik from the Law and Justice party list.^[2][4] In 2007, he joined the Right of the Republic.^[4] He unsuccessfully ran for a parliamentary seat in the early parliamentary elections from the list of the League of Polish Families.^[2] In 2018, as a representative of the Right of the Republic, Skalik ran for the Silesian Voivodeship Sejmik from the list of the Kukiz'15 committee, which did not win any seats.^[4][5] In 2019, as a non-party candidate, he unsuccessfully ran for the European Parliament from the Confederation list.^[4][6] In the elections in the same year, he also unsuccessfully ran for the Sejm from the Confederation list.^[7]

In the 2023 parliamentary elections, Skalik won a parliamentary seat from the list of the same party, running in the Opole district and winning 15190 votes.^[8]

Skalik is married, has four children.^[3]

• Poland :^[2]
  • Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2005)
  • Gold Cross of Merit (1995)