Career
Leader of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA), Tomaševski has been an Member of the European Parliament since 2009. First elected to Vilnius district council for Electoral Action in 1995, Tomaševski was elected President of LLRaL in 1999. He was first elected to the Seimas at the 2000 election, winning 51% of the vote in Šalčininkai.
In the same year, he became deputy mayor of Vilnius district, serving from 2000 to 2003.
Tomaševski was re-elected to the Seimas in 2004 with 63% of the vote: one of five candidates in the country elected in the first round. He was re-elected again at the 2008 election, winning 61%: eight times his nearest competitor"s share.
He was LLRA"s candidate in the May 2009 presidential election, the first that LLRA had entered, and received 4.7% of the national vote, in fourth, with Dalia Grybauskaitė winning comfortably. The following month, he stood for election to the European Parliament.
He joined the European Conservatives and Reformists, and was appointed to the group"s bureau.
