Grzegorz Michał Braun (born 11 March 1967) is a Polish far-right politician and filmmaker. He was a member of the Sejm for Rzeszów from 2019 to 2024 and has been a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie since 2024. He has been the chairman of the Confederation of the Polish Crown (KKP) since 2019.
Born in Toruń, Braun's political career began when he announced his candidacy in the 2015 presidential election. He formed the campaign committee "God Bless You!", but received a minimal percentage of the vote. His political journey continued with his participation in discussions on European and Russian relations and his candidacies in various elections including for the mayoral office of Gdańsk and the European Parliament. Despite electoral setbacks, he was elected to the Sejm at the 2019 parliamentary election. He was re-elected at the 2023 parliamentary election. Braun's tenure in politics has been marked by controversy, including inflammatory remarks during the COVID-19 pandemic and endorsements of independent nuclear capabilities for Poland.
Braun has broadly been described as a nationalist and far-right, and his views as anti-American, anti-Ukrainian, antisemitic, anti-Zionist, and anti-LGBTQ. His tenure in the Sejm was characterised by numerous antisemitic incidents. In 2023 he invaded a Holocaust lecture, destroyed equipment and made derogatory comments about Jews. Later that year, he put out a Hanukkah menorah in the Sejm using a fire extinguisher, leading to his exclusion from the session. In May 2025, the European Parliament lifted his immunity. In July 2025, he was charged with seven criminal offences stemming from multiple incidents occurring between 2022 and 2023, including assault. Later that month, Braun publicly denied that the Nazis used gas chambers at Auschwitz concentration camp during the Second World War.
Biography Grzegorz Michał Braun was born in Toruń in the Polish People's Republic on 11 March 1967. He is the son of Kazimierz Braun, a theatre-director and writer. According to Braun's sister Monika Braun, their family immigrated to what is now Lviv, Ukraine, from Austria in the 18th century. His uncle, Juliusz Braun, was president of Telewizja Polska and was chief of the National Broadcasting Council.
He graduated from the University of Wrocław in 1987, and completed postgraduate studies at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Faculty of Radio and Television at the University of Silesia in Katowice in 1993. From 1987 onwards he co-organised activities of the Orange Alternative, for which he was oppressed by the communist government of the Polish People's Republic. In 1988 and 1989, he participated in student protests at the University of Wrocław. He was also active in the Polish-Czech-Slovak Solidarity.
He was a member of the editorial board of the magazine from 1990 to 1994. Later, he also was a journalist for the Option Right,Option Right "Option Right Magazine" Retrieved on 4 March 2015. as well as Polskie Radio Wrocław. He was involved with the Polish Monarchists Organisation (), for which he contributed written works and lectures. He is involved with "Wake-up Call" ("Pobudka"), an organisation that he has founded to strengthen the self-sustainability of faith communities, and the internet show Sumienie Narodu.
In 2005 Braun released a documentary film about the alleged collaboration between Solidarity-leader and later President of Poland Lech Wałęsa and the Ministry of Public Security (SB), the secret police of the Polish People's Republic. Wałęsa filed a lawsuit against Braun, and Braun filed a countersuit for defamation. A hearing was held, and the court dismissed both claims.
Political career
In 2012, Braun called for the execution by firing squad of journalists from Gazeta Wyborcza and TVN, which led to an official investigation. In 2023 the Prosecutor's Office dismissed the case.
In, 2015 he formed his own campaign committee, God Bless You! (), and received 13,113 votes amounting to 0.09 per cent of the total cast.
In January 2019 Braun announced his candidacy for the mayoral office of Gdańsk. The election was called after the murder of Mayor Paweł Adamowicz. Braun's candidacy was endorsed by Janusz Korwin-Mikke and the National Movement. On 4 March 2019 it was determined that Braun received 11.86 per cent of votes and thus conceded to the winner, Aleksandra Dulkiewicz, who received 82.22 per cent of the votes.
In the 2019 European Parliament election in Poland Braun was the leading candidate for the Confederation Liberty and Independence in the 9th constituency encompassing the territory of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship. Although his list received 5.89 per cent of the vote, the best result for Confederation in the country, the coalition failed to reach the 5 per cent threshold nationwide and so he did not pick up the seat.
In the 2019 Polish parliamentary election Braun was the leading candidate for the Confederation Liberty and Independence in the Rzeszów Constituency, located in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship. He built on his success from the last election, and his list received 8.25 per cent of the vote, which was again the best result for the Confederation nationwide. This time Braun picked up the seat, as did 10 other candidates from the Confederation.
He was a candidate in the 2020 Confederation presidential primary. He made it into the final round of voting where he lost to Krzysztof Bosak. He immediately endorsed Bosak and said he would campaign for him.
On 27 January 2023 Braun destroyed a Christmas tree decorated with baubles themed with Ukrainian, EU and LGBTQ pride flags located in the building of the Kraków District Court. He said that he had staged a "parliamentary intervention".
Braun was elected to the European Parliament in the 2024 European Parliament election.
On 12 October, Braun stated that, "the Polish Army should not lift a finger in the defence of a small, depopulated, nasty, anti-Polish, Bismarck, Anglo-Saxon and Jewish creature, that is modern Lithuania".
On 15 January 2025, Braun announced he would run for President of Poland in the upcoming election, confirming previous speculations. He declared his intent despite the fact that the Confederation Liberty and Independence (KWiN) leadership had designated Sławomir Mentzen as its presidential candidate back in August 2024. As a result, Braun was expelled from the party on 17 January. Janusz Korwin-Mikke, founder and former member of the KWiN, has expressed support for Braun's candidacy.
According to a report by the "Never Again" Association, Braun has long supported Janusz Waluś, the murderer of the South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani, undertaking parliamentary interventions to obtain his release from life imprisonment and promoting fundraisers for him. He also defended Waluś's crime, stating, among other things, "In my world, shooting communist party secretaries can be a noble act, because committed out of necessity."
On 16 April 2025 Braun, along with MP Roman Fritz and a group of activists, attempted a citizen's arrest of a gynaecologist working at a hospital in Oleśnica: Braun and his group prevented the gynaecologist from leaving her office, Braun called her a "serial murderer", and pushed her. The police were called, but they did not arrest Braun or his group. The doctor had previously legally aborted a 37-week-old foetus since its severe congenital bone fragility would have caused a significant risk to the mother; it also had a very high chance of being a stillbirth. After the incident, the doctor was harassed and doxxed on social media and the hospital was sent bomb threats. Braun's sister condemned his actions in an article for the newspaper Tygodnik Powszechny, and said that "the line has been crossed".
As at April 2025, Braun was polling between 1% and 4% in the 2025 Polish presidential election. According to a survey conducted by Opinia24 between 6 and 7 May for Fakty TVN, 4% of 1000 respondents said that they would vote for Braun. In a survey conducted by the Pollster Research Institute () for Super Express between 7 and 8 May 2025, out of 1,077 respondents, 5.3% responded that they would vote for Braun if the presidential election were held that Sunday, 11 May 2025.
On 6 May 2025 the European Parliament voted in favour of removing Braun's EU-level immunity from prosecution; the Polish prosecutor's office had requested it a day before.
Braun's 2025 presidential campaign had the endorsement of the former Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland candidate Aldona Skirgiełło, PolExit, Real Europe Movement and National Rebirth of Poland.
On the first round of voting on 18 May 2025, Braun placed fourth and won 6.3% of the vote.
At the end of December 2025, following an intervention by the "Never Again" Association, the TikTok platform removed six videos published on Grzegorz Braun's channel. These included recordings containing antisemitic and xenophobic content. In January 2026, TikTok deleted further materials by Braun – reported for review by the "Never Again" – and temporarily restricted the recommendation of his channel's content to users. Piotr Żaczko, TikTok's spokesperson for Central and Eastern Europe, provided the following justification for the decision: "A number of videos published by MEP Braun violated our community guidelines regarding hate speech and have been removed. [...] We do not allow hate speech, hateful behavior, or the promotion of hateful ideologies."
Views Braun is a Traditionalist Catholic. He begins each of his speeches with the words "God bless you". He is fiercely critical of Protestantism in Poland and has often debated Protestants in public. Braun is a monarchist and is a critic of democracy. He advocates for the formal recognition of Jesus as the king of Poland.
Braun has criticized foreign influence in Poland, calling it a "Russo-German condominium under a Jewish-American trusteeship". He has called the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews a "propaganda-disinformation centre".
Braun repeatedly criticized the Law and Justice party, calling their MPs "the followers of Gog and Magog, destroyers of Polish tradition and Latin civilization" and "a reenactment group of Sanation".
Braun calls for Poland to independently maintain and operate nuclear weapons.
Braun praised vigilante groups, organized by football hooligans, that assaulted and harassed ethnic minorities in Przemyśl. One group assaulted three Indians in Przemyśl with baseball bats and bottles, leaving one hospitalised. The police denied reports of a spike in crime caused by migrants from Ukraine.
Foreign policy Russia and Ukraine Braun has been described as pro-Russian, and was interviewed by Russian-state owned news agency Sputnik in 2019. He was praised by the Russian media for his stances on Ukraine since the beginning of the 2022 invasion.
In a 2018 article titled "Ukrainian spectres and delusions" (), Braun wrote, "Ukraine is a fiction. And it is a dangerous fiction. The fiction of an independent state as a civilised partner and the fiction of a sovereign nation, with which we can finally normalise neighbourly relations."
On 24 February 2022, Braun posted a tweet demanding Poland to not open its borders to Ukrainian refugees. He was the only MP who voted against a resolution in the Sejm condemning the invasion of Ukraine and calling upon NATO and the European Union to provide support to Ukraine. He was interviewed by Sputnik again less than a month after the invasion, in which he said that Russia is not the sole instigator of the Russo-Ukrainian War and Ukrainians would be held accountable for their "banderism".