Jerzy Buzek multibillion-euro spending programme for the years 2007–2013. On 7 June 2009, in the European Parliament election, 2009, Buzek was re-elected as a Member of the European Parliament from the Silesian Voivodeship constituency. Just as in the previous election, Buzek received a record number of votes in Poland: 393,117 (over 42% of the total votes in the district). On 12 September 2018, he voted in favor of approving the controversial Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. On 14 July 2009, Buzek was elected President of the European Parliament with 555 votes of the 644 votes cast, the largest majority
Jan Buzek laid at a cemetery in Bystrzyca nad Olzą, in the grave of his first wife Anna, his first love. He is buried there. Jan Buzek Dr. Jan Jerzy Buzek (27 March 1874 – 24 November 1940) was a Polish physician, activist and politician from the region of Zaolzie, Czechoslovakia. Buzek was born in Końska as a son of a peasant. He graduated from primary school there, and later from the German gymnasium (high school) in Cieszyn. He later decided to study medicine at Jagiellonian University in Kraków and graduated in 1901. In 1902 he became a municipal and miners' doctor