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List Of Liberal Democratic Congress Politicians
A list of notable Polish politicians of the defunct Liberal Democratic Congress ( pl, Kongres Liberalno-Demokratyczny). A * Tadeusz Aziewicz B * Jan Krzysztof Bielecki * Michał Boni * Józef Borzyszkowski D * Mirosław Drzewiecki G * Witold Gadomski * Andrzej Gałażewski * Zyta Gilowska * Cezary Grabarczyk * Ryszard Grobelny * Rafał Grupiński J * Tadeusz Jarmuziewicz K * Filip Kaczmarek * Sebastian Karpiniuk L * Janusz Lewandowski * Krzysztof Lisek N * Sławomir Nowak O * Jerzy Orłowski P * Paweł Piskorski * Jacek Protasiewicz R * Jan Rzymełka S * Grzegorz Schetyna * Tomasz Siemoniak * Andrzej Sośnierz T * Donald Tusk Donald Franciszek Tusk ( , ; born 22 April 1957) is a Polish politician who was President of the European Council from 2014 to 2019. He served as the 14th Prime Minister of Poland from 2007 to 2014 and was a co-founder and leader of the Civic ... W * Jan Waszkiewicz * Jacek Wojciechowicz {{Lists of Polish politicians by pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous member state of the European Union. Warsaw is the nation's capital and largest metropolis. Other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin. Poland has a temperate transitional climate and its territory traverses the Central European Plain, extending from Baltic Sea in the north to Sudeten and Carpathian Mountains in the south. The longest Polish river is the Vistula, and Poland's highest point is Mount Rysy, situated in the Tatra mountain range of the Carpathians. The country is bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. It also shares maritime boundaries with Denmark and Sweden. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Karpiniuk
Sebastian Marek Karpiniuk (4 December 1972 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish politician. Political career Karpiniuk was an assistant to President of Kolobrzeg, Henryk Bienowski before becoming politically independent. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 9767 votes in 40 Koszalin district, as a candidate from the Civic Platform list. In the Parliamentary Election of 2007, he ran on the same ticket in the same district as second on the list, and was elected to the Sejm with 25,827 votes (incl. 8169 in Kolobrzeg). He was listed on the flight manifest of the |
Jan Waszkiewicz
Jan Waszkiewicz (June 24, 1944 – March 25, 2021) was a Polish politician and regional official, academic, and marshal of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. He graduated from the University of Wrocław in 1966. After graduating, he worked at the Pedagogical University in Opole, then moved to the Wrocław University, where he worked until 1969. For the next three years he was a doctoral student at the Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw. He obtained his doctorate from Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1972, based on the work ''On the theory of products of generalized relational systems'' written under the direction Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski. In 1972, he returned to Wrocław and started working at the Wrocław University of Technology. In 1990, he also defended the dissertation ''Cultural dependencies of the genesis of mathematics'' before the council of the Faculty of Philosophy and History of the Jagiellonian University, obtain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Tusk
Donald Franciszek Tusk ( , ; born 22 April 1957) is a Polish politician who was President of the European Council from 2014 to 2019. He served as the 14th Prime Minister of Poland from 2007 to 2014 and was a co-founder and leader of the Civic Platform (''Platforma Obywatelska'') political party from 2003 to 2014. On 20 November 2019, Tusk was elected as the president of the European People's Party (EPP), Europe's largest European political party, transnational political party and on 3 July 2021 he returned to Polish politics by reassuming the leadership of the Civic Platform. Tusk has been involved in Polish politics since the early 1990s, having founded several political parties and held elected office almost continuously since 1991. Tusk was one of the co-founders of the free market, free-market-orientated Liberal Democratic Congress party. He entered the Sejm (lower chamber of Poland's parliament) in 1991, but lost his seat in the 1993 election which went badly for the Congres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrzej Sośnierz
Andrzej Stanisław Sośnierz (born 8 May 1951) is a Polish politician and physician and a current member of the Sejm. Political career He was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 54,876 votes in Katowice, standing for Civic Platform. He left the party after criticising the leadership's negative attitude towards a potential coalition with Law and Justice (PiS). After being expelled, in January 2006, he joined PiS, for whom he ran in the 2007 election. In 2010, he left PiS to join Poland Comes First, when that party was created. Elected in 2015 as a representative of Poland Together. Reelected in 2019. On 22 June 2022 Sośnierz was thrown out of the Agreement Party after his parliamentary group "Polish Affairs" ( pl, Polskie Sprawy) signed an agreement with Law and Justice. Sośnierz, along with Zbigniew Girzyński and leader of the group Agnieszka Ścigaj Agnieszka is the Polish equivalent of the female given name Agnes (name). Notable people with this name include: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomasz Siemoniak
Tomasz Siemoniak (born 2 July 1967) is a Polish politician, Minister of National Defence from 2 August 2011 to 16 November 2015 and Deputy Prime Minister of Poland from 22 September 2014 to 16 November 2015. Early life and education Siemoniak was born on 2 July 1967. He graduated from the Foreign Trade Faculty of the Warsaw School of Economics. During his university education, he was the head of the Independent Students’ Association (NZS). Career Siemoniak began his career at the Polish public broadcasting unit, Telewizja Polska, as the director of the office for field branches and general director of Channel 1. His tenure lasted from 1994 to 1996. He served as the director of the press and information office at the ministry of national defence from 1998 to 2000. During this period he was also a member of the Warsaw city centre district council and deputy chairman of the culture committee of the council. He was appointed deputy chairman of the supervisory board of the Poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grzegorz Schetyna
Grzegorz Juliusz Schetyna () (born 18 February 1963) is a Polish politician who has been Civic Platform, Leader of Civic Platform and Leader of the Opposition from 26 January 2016 to 25 January 2020. He has served as Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Poland), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland from 2014 to 2015, Marshal of the Sejm from 2010 to 2011, Acting President of Poland 2010, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland from 2007 to 2009 and Ministry of Interior and Administration (Poland), Minister of the Interior and Administration 2007 to 2009. He has been a Sejm, Member of the Sejm from 1997. Early career In the early 1990s, Schetyna co-founded a commercial broadcaster, Radio Eska, and chaired the Śląsk Wrocław basketball team in 1994–97. Political career Early beginnings In the late 1980s, Schetyna headed the University of Wrocław’s branch of the Independent Students’ Union, the student arm of the Solidarność (Solidarity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Rzymełka
Jan Antoni Rzymełka (born 7 June 1952 in Katowice) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 8,878 votes in 31 Katowice district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list. He was also a member of the Sejm 1989-1991 in the People's Republic of Poland The Polish People's Republic ( pl, Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, PRL) was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1947 to 1989 as the predecessor of the modern Republic of Poland. With a population of approximately 37.9 million nea ..., Sejm 1991-1993, Sejm 1997-2001, and Sejm 2001-2005. See also * Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2007 External linksJan Rzymełka - parliamentary page- includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches. 1952 births Living people Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007 Members of the Polish Sejm 1991–1993 Members of the Polish Sejm 1997–2001 Members of the Polish Sejm 2001–2005 Civic Platform politician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacek Protasiewicz
Jacek Protasiewicz (born 5 June 1967 in Brzeg) is a Polish politician. Graduated from Wroclaw University where in the 80s of 20th century was a leader of anti communist student organization (NZS). In 1995 was an international fellow at the Kettering Foundation based in Dayton, Ohio. He was a local leader of a liberal party (KL-D) in 1994 and than the Union of Freedom - the party led by a first non-communist Prime Minister of Poland. In 2001 he was a cofounder and a local leader of Civic Platform - a party led by Donald Tusk - later Prime Minister of Poland and Head of the European Council. First time elected to a regional assembly in 1998 and than to Polish Parliament in 2001. In 2004 was elected to the European Parliament where served as served as Chair of Delegation for Belarus (2007-2012) and as the Vice-President 2012-2014 in charge for relations with parliaments of Eastern Partnership countries as well as with NATO Parliamentary Assembly. He was a Head of presidential electi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paweł Piskorski
Paweł Bartłomiej Piskorski (born 25 February 1968 in Warsaw) is a former Polish politician. He was Mayor of Warsaw from 30 March 1999 to 14 January 2002. In 1997 he was elected to the Sejm from the Freedom Union electoral list, and in 2001, after participating in a secession from that party, he successfully ran under the Civic Platform banner. In 2004 he was the Secretary General of Civic Platform. He has been elected Member of the European Parliament in 2004. On 26 April 2006 he was excluded from the Civic Platform. Since February 2009 he has been the chairman of the Democratic Party. Alleged corruption In April 2006 Polish newspaper "Dziennik" informed about the purchase in 2005 by Pawel Piskorski and his wife of more than 320 hectares of land for afforestation. The total cost of the purchase amounted to 1.25 million zł. According to the newspaper’s journalist, this amount exceeded the value of assets declared by the MEP in a financial statement for that year. Pawel Piskor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerzy Orłowski
Jerzy Orłowski (16 February 1925 – 28 March 2015) was a Polish footballer who played as a defender for Skra Częstochowa, Legia Warsaw Legia Warszawa (), commonly referred to as Legia Warsaw or simply Legia, is a professional football club based in Warsaw, Poland. Legia is the most successful Polish football club in history, winning record 15 Ekstraklasa champions titles, a ... and the Poland national team. References 1925 births 2015 deaths Sportspeople from Częstochowa Polish footballers Association football defenders Poland international footballers Legia Warsaw players Skra Częstochowa players {{Poland-footy-defender-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sławomir Nowak
Sławomir Ryszard Nowak (born 11 December 1974 in Gdańsk) is a Polish politician and a state official in Ukraine. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 9,061 votes in 25 Gdańsk district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list. He was also a member of Sejm 2001-2005. Nowak served as head of the electoral staff of a candidate for President of Poland, Bronisław Komorowski, during the 2010 presidential election. From 18 November 2011 to 27 November 2013 he served as Minister of Transport, Construction and Maritime Economy. On 24 October 2016 he was appointed chief of Ukrainian transport agency Ukravtodor and awarded Ukrainian citizenship. He was dismissed from the post of Ukravtodor's head in September 2019. On 20 July 2020 Nowak was arrested by Poland's Central Anticorruption Bureau (after a joint investigation with the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine) on suspicion of corruption, management of an organized criminal group, and money launderin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
