Jolanta Irena Szczypińska (24 June 1957 – 8 December 2018) was a Polish politician.
Biography
After professionally working as a
nurse
Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health c ...
, she became a member of 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 ...
(the lower House of Parliament) after Wiesław Walendziak had stepped down in March 2004.
On
25 September 2005 she was a candidate for the 26th
Gdynia
Gdynia ( ; ; german: Gdingen (currently), (1939–1945); csb, Gdiniô, , , ) is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With a population of 243,918, it is the 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in th ...
district, running on the
Law and Justice list, and was elected Sejm member, as well as on
21 October 2007, on
9 October 2011 and on
25 October 2015.
In 2007, following rumours that she was in relationship with Poland's prime minister
Jarosław Kaczyński
Jarosław Aleksander Kaczyński (; born 18 June 1949) is a Polish politician who is currently serving as leader of the Law and Justice party (known by its Polish acronym PiS), which he co-founded in 2001 with his twin brother, Lech Kaczyński, ...
, the airline
Ryanair launched an advertising campaign which pictured the two politicians under the headline ''Are they planning a honeymoon trip?'' Szczypińska took legal action to prevent publication.
[BBC 23 May 2007]
''Ryanair faces legal row over ad''
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See also
* List of Sejm members (2005–07)
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People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
* List of Sejm members (2007–11)
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to:
People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...
* List of Sejm members (2011–15)
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to:
People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...
* List of Sejm members (2015–19)
References
External links
Jolanta Szczypińska - parliamentary page
- includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches.
Home page
1957 births
2018 deaths
People from Słupsk
Polish nurses
Law and Justice politicians
Members of the Polish Sejm 2001–2005
Women members of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland
Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007
21st-century Polish women politicians
Members of the Polish Sejm 2007–2011
Members of the Polish Sejm 2011–2015
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