MP kicked out of parliament for second time after trashing LGBT exhibit

A far-right politician has been kicked out of the Polish parliament for destroying an exhibition about LGBTQ+ equality.

Grzegorz Braun ripped down posters which had been put up in the corridors of Poland’s parliament building and stamped on them.

Braun was accused of antisemitism in 2013 when he extinguished Hannukah candles with a fire extinguisher.

And he has now made his dislike of the LGBTQ+ community even clearer than before by trashing the exhibition on Wednesday.

Braun served as a member of the lower house of Poland’s parliament between 2019 and 2024,and he’s currently a Member of the European Parliament representing Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie.

He ran as a presidential candidate in 2015,receiving less than 1% of the vote,and again in the early round of this year’s presidential election where he received about 6% of the vote.

Grzegorz Braun ripped posters down and stomped on them

A traditionalist Catholic,Braun has not been shy to express his anti-American,anti-Ukrainian,and anti-LGBTQ+ views.

In 2023 he destroyed a Christmas tree decorated with Ukrainian,EU and LGBTQ+ flags in the Kraków district court building.

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