Legnica (parliamentary Constituency)
Legnica is a Polish parliamentary constituency in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship.''The Act of 5 January 2011 - Election Code''Coll. Laws of 2011 No. 21, item. 113 as amended.) It elects twelve members of the Sejm and three members of the Senate. The district has the number '1' and is named after the city of Legnica. It includes the counties of Bolesławiec, Głogów County, Jawor, Jelenia Góra, Kamienna Góra, Legnica, Lubań, Lubin, Lwówek Śląski, Polkowice, Zgorzelec, and Złotoryja, and the city counties of Jelenia Góra Jelenia Góra (pron. ; Polish: ; german: Hirschberg im Riesengebirge; Exonym: ''Deer Mountain''; szl, Jelyniŏ Gōra) is a historic city in southwestern Poland, within the historical region of Lower Silesia. Jelenia Góra is situated in the Low ... and Legnica. In its current form was created in 2001.Act of 12 April 2001 - Elections to the Polish Sejm and the Polish SenateColl. Laws of 2001 No 46, item. 499 as amended.) List of members Sejm ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sejm RP 1
The Sejm (English: , Polish: ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (Polish language, Polish: ''Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''), is the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral parliament of Poland. The Sejm has been the highest governing body of the Third Polish Republic since the Polish People’s Republic, transition of government in 1989. Along with the upper house of parliament, the Senate of Poland, Senate, it forms the national legislature in Poland known as Parliament of Poland#National Assembly, National Assembly ( pl, Zgromadzenie Narodowe). The Sejm is composed of 460 Member of parliament, deputies (singular ''deputowany'' or ''poseł'' – "envoy") elected every four years by a Universal suffrage, universal ballot. The Sejm is presided over by a Speaker of parliament, speaker called the "Marshal of the Sejm" (''Marszałek Sejmu''). In the Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569), Kingdom of Poland, the term "''Sejm''" referred to an entire two-Chamber ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Złotoryja County
__NOTOC__ Złotoryja County ( pl, powiat złotoryjski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. The county covers an area of . Its administrative seat is Złotoryja, and it also contains the towns of Wojcieszów and Świerzawa. As of 2019 the total population of the county is 43,719, out of which the population of Złotoryja is 15,564, that of Wojcieszów is 3,668, that of Świerzawa is 2,286, and the rural population is 22,201. Neighbouring counties Złotoryja County is bordered by Legnica County to the north-east, Jawor County to the east, Jelenia Góra County to the south, and Lwówek Śląski County Lwówek (german: Neustadt bei Pinne or ''Kirschneustadt'' from 1943-1945) is a town in Nowy Tomyśl County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Pola ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Małgorzata Sekuła-Szmajdzińska
Małgorzata Helena Sekuła-Szmajdzińska (born 19 April 1956) is a Polish lawyer and politician. Biography Born in Warsaw, she moved to Wrocław at a young age. She studied at University of Wrocław, and as a lawyer she worked at the Ministry of Justice. Electoral history She ran unsuccessfully to the Warsaw city council in 2006, but in 2010 she was elected to the council. In 2011 she was elected to the Sejm. In 2015, despite getting individual votes, she was not elected as the Democratic Left Alliance did not pass the electoral threshold as a list. In May 2019 she ran for MeP, but was not elected. She was elected to the Sejm again in October 2019. Private life She is the widow of Jerzy Szmajdziński, who died in Smolensk air disaster On 10 April 2010, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft operating Polish Air Force Flight 101 crashed near the Russian city of Smolensk, killing all 96 people on board. Among the victims were the president of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, and his wif ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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New Left (Poland)
The New Left (, NL) is a social-democratic political party in Poland. It is positioned on the centre-left on the political spectrum. Its leaders are Włodzimierz Czarzasty and Robert Biedroń. It was formed in 2021, as a merger of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) and Spring, although the plans for the merge began in 2020. It is a part of The Left coalition, together with the left-wing Left Together party. It holds pro-European views. History Spring and the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) initially cooperated in 2019 during the October 2019 parliamentary election, as part of The Left alliance. After the election, the plan to merge the two parties was announced. As a consequence in 2020 SLD changed its name into the New Left as the new party was to be based on the structures of the alliance. However, further plans concerning merger were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Robert Obaz
Robert Marcin Obaz (born 8 March 1973) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm (9th term) representing the constituency of Legnica Legnica (Polish: ; german: Liegnitz, szl, Lignica, cz, Lehnice, la, Lignitium) is a city in southwestern Poland, in the central part of Lower Silesia, on the Kaczawa River (left tributary of the Oder) and the Czarna Woda (Kaczawa), Czarna Woda .... He was born in Jelenia Góra, Poland. References Living people 1973 births People from Jelenia Góra Democratic Left Alliance politicians 21st-century Polish politicians Members of the Polish Sejm 2019–2023 New Left (Poland) politicians {{Poland-politician-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marzena Machałek
Marzena Anna Machałek (born 29 August 1960) is a Polish politician who has served in the Sejm since 5 December 2006 as a member of the Law and Justice party. Born in Wrocław, she graduated from the University of Wrocław in 1992 with a degree in Polish philology. She spent the 1980s and 1990s working as a teacher, and was also part of the Solidarity movement. In 1998 she was elected to Kamienna Góra County's council, and served as the deputy mayor as well. In 2006, she was nominated to the Sejm to finish out Jan Zubowski's term, who was elected mayor of Głogów. After finishing up the term, Machałek has since been re-elected to three more terms in the Legnica district. She received 11,109 votes in 2007, 11,812 votes in 2011, and 14,608 votes in 2015. In 2014, she ran in the European Parliament election, and finished fifth behind out of ten candidates, losing to Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski (born 28 July 1964 in Kielce) is a Polish polit ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Adam Lipiński
Adam Józef Lipiński, is an economist, editor and lecturer, as well as a founder of the Law and Justice party in Lower Silesia. Life He was born in 1956, and is a graduate from II Secondary School in Legnica and the Wrocław University of Economics. He has worked at the “Hanka” Garment Factory in Legnica, and was a member of the Regional Board of the NSZZ "S" ( Solidarity) in Wrocław and was an activist in the democratic opposition. In the 1970s, he was a member of the Student Committee of Solidarity, then the spokesman of the Committee for Social Self-defence in Legnica. In 1981 he was the head of the Publishing House of Solidarity in Wrocław. Until 1989 he had to remain undercover, acting in the conspiratorial underground during the martial law period. Among other things he was the head of the printing unit of the Regional Strike Committee (RKS) in Wrocław, he founded the organization Ruch Społeczny Solidarność (Social Movement of Solidarity), he was also the ed ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Law And Justice
Law and Justice ( pl, Prawo i Sprawiedliwość , PiS) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Poland. Its chairman is Jarosław Kaczyński. It was founded in 2001 by Jarosław and Lech Kaczyński as a direct successor of the Centre Agreement after it split from the Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS). It managed to win the 2005 parliamentary and presidential elections, after which Lech became the president of Poland. It headed a parliamentary coalition with the League of Polish Families and Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland between 2005 and the 2007 election. It placed second and they remained in the parliamentary opposition until 2015. It regained the presidency in the 2015 election, and later won a majority of seats in the parliamentary election. They retained the positions following the 2019 and 2020 election. During its foundation, it sought to position itself as a centrist Christian democratic party, although shortly after, it ad ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Krzysztof Kubów
Krzysztof Kubów is a Polish politician. Kubów is a Law and Justice Member of the Sejm for Legnica Legnica (Polish: ; german: Liegnitz, szl, Lignica, cz, Lehnice, la, Lignitium) is a city in southwestern Poland, in the central part of Lower Silesia, on the Kaczawa River (left tributary of the Oder) and the Czarna Woda (Kaczawa), Czarna Woda .... References Living people Law and Justice politicians Members of the Polish Sejm 2015–2019 Members of the Polish Sejm 2019–2023 1984 births Members of the Polish Sejm 2023–2027 {{Poland-politician-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Robert Kropiwnicki
Robert Kropiwnicki (born 23 July 1974) is a Polish politician. He has been a member of the Sejm since 2010 representing the constituency of Legnica. In 2010, he replaced Janusz Mikulicz in the Sejm (6th term) and Kropiwnicki was re-elected in 2011 and in 2015 (7th and 8th term of the Sejm respectively). In 2019 parliamentary election, he was again elected to the Sejm (9th term). He is affiliated with the Civic Platform party. In 2023 parliamentary election he was reelected to the Sejm with 31,838 votes. In the same year he was elected by the Sejm to the National Council of the Judiciary. He was born in Legnica Legnica (Polish: ; german: Liegnitz, szl, Lignica, cz, Lehnice, la, Lignitium) is a city in southwestern Poland, in the central part of Lower Silesia, on the Kaczawa River (left tributary of the Oder) and the Czarna Woda (Kaczawa), Czarna Woda ..., Poland. References Living people 1974 births People from Legnica 21st-century Polish politicians Member ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Zofia Czernow
Zofia Czernow (born 1950) is an economist and Polish politician. Previously involved in local politics in Jelenia Góra, she was elected to the Sejm, lower house of the Polish parliament, in 2011, 2015, 2019. References 1950 births Living people People from Biłgoraj County Civic Platform politicians Members of the Polish Sejm 2011–2015 Members of the Polish Sejm 2015–2019 Members of the Polish Sejm 2019–2023 Members of the Polish Sejm 2023–2027 Women members of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland 21st-century Polish politicians 21st-century Polish women politicians {{CivicPlatform-politician-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Civic Coalition (Poland)
The Civic Coalition ( pl, Koalicja Obywatelska, KO)) is a catch-all political alliance in Poland. The alliance was formed around Civic Platform in opposition to the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. The coalition's name uses a play on words with ''Ja Obywatel'', which translates to "I, Citizen". History The Civic Coalition was originally created by the Civic Platform and Modern parties for 2018 local elections. In June 2019, it was announced that the Civic Coalition would be slated to participate in the 2019 Polish parliamentary election and Civic Platform and Modern will form a joint parliamentary club. The Greens announced at the end of July 2019 that they will participate in the elections as part of the Coalition. In August 2019, the Silesian Autonomy Movement and other member organisations of the Silesian Electoral Agreement joined the Coalition. 2018 local elections and present In the 2018 local elections, the Civic Coalition received 26.97% of votes (second place ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |