Ewa Maria Janik (born 19 December 1948) is a Polish political figure who served in the national Parliament (

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 ...

) from September 1997 to November 2007. Ewa Janik served as a Mayor of

Częstochowa Częstochowa ( , ; german: Tschenstochau, Czenstochau; la, Czanstochova) is a city in southern Poland on the Warta River with 214,342 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship (admin ...

from 1998 to 2000. A native of the historic southern city of

, formerly the capital of

Częstochowa Voivodeship Częstochowa Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975–1998, superseded mainly by Silesian Voivodeship, with a few eastern gminas attached to the freshly created Świętokrzyskie Voivodesh ...

and, since 1999, a part of

Silesian Voivodeship Silesian Voivodeship, or Silesia Province ( pl, województwo śląskie ) is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centered on the historic region known as Upper Silesia ('), with Katowice serving as its capital. Despite the Silesian ...

, Ewa Janik is a member of the

Democratic Left Alliance The Democratic Left Alliance () was a social-democratic political party in Poland. It was formed in 9 July 1991 as an electoral alliance of centre-left parties, and became a single party on 15 April 1999. It was the major coalition party in Po ...

and was initially elected to the Sejm in the Polish parliamentary election of 1997. She was re-elected in 2001 and, in the election of 2005, received 6077 votes in

district 28. She did not stand for re-election in 2007.

External links

Ewa Janik at the Sejm website (includes declarations of interest, voting record and transcripts of speeches)
1948 births Living people Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007 Members of the Polish Sejm 1997–2001 Members of the Polish Sejm 2001–2005 Democratic Left Alliance politicians Women members of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland People from Częstochowa 20th-century Polish women politicians 21st-century Polish women politicians Mayors of places in Poland {{Poland-politician-stub

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