Damian Bartyla

Damian Bartyla (born 3 April 1971 in Bytom) is a Polish lawyer and local politician who has been the Mayor of Bytom since 2012.
He graduated from University of Silesia. Between 2002 and 2010 he was employed in the Bytom town hall. After two years of being deputy chairman of Polonia Bytom football club, he was promoted to the position of its chairman in 2004.
In the 2010 local election he unsuccessfully ran against the incumbent Mayor of Bytom, Piotr Koj, receiving 47,07% of votes in the second round.
In 2012, after a local referendum that dismissed Koj and the city council, Bartyla won the elections, having defeated Halina Bieda, then the Civic Platform candidate as well as the commissioner who acted both Mayor and the City Council.
In 2014 local election he was reelected.