Elżbieta Barbara Witek (née Zbanuch; born 17 December 1957, in
Jawor
Jawor (german: Jauer) is a town in south-western Poland with 22,890 inhabitants (2019). It is situated in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship (from 1975 to 1998 it was in the former Legnica Voivodeship). It is the seat of Jawor County, and lies appro ...
) is a Polish politician and former
Minister of the Interior and Administration, in office from June 2019 to August 2019, currently serving as the
Marshal of the Sejm
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(). First elected to the ''
Sejm
The Sejm (English: , Polish: ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (Polish: ''Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''), is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland.
The Sejm has been the highest governing body of t ...
'' on 25 September 2005, obtaining 7476 votes in 1
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 ...
district as a candidate on the
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 su ...
list. She was voted Marshal on 9 August 2019 after her predecessor,
Marek Kuchciński
Marek Tadeusz Kuchciński (born 9 August 1955) is a member of the Sejm of Poland, first elected in 2001. Before 2015, he served the parliament as one of the Deputy Marshals of the Sejm, nominated by the Law and Justice club, and also as the Pa ...
, stepped down upon the mass critique of his use of government airplanes for private purposes.
Orders and honours
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Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise
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See also
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Members of Polish Sejm 2005–2007
References
External links
Elżbieta Witek – parliamentary page– includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches.
1957 births
Living people
People from Jawor
Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007
Women members of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland
Law and Justice politicians
21st-century Polish women politicians
Marshals of the Sejm of the Third Polish Republic
Members of the Polish Sejm 2007–2011
Members of the Polish Sejm 2011–2015
Members of the Polish Sejm 2015–2019
Members of the Polish Sejm 2019–2023
Interior ministers of Poland
University of Wrocław alumni
20th-century Polish women
Women legislative speakers
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