Karolina Monika Pawliczak (born 25 June 1976) is a Polish lawyer and politician. She was 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 ...

(9th term) representing the constituency of

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in October 2019. She took her oath of office in November 2019.

Biography

Early years

Pawliczak was born in the village of

Godziesze Wielkie Godziesze Wielkie is a village in Kalisz County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Godziesze Wielkie. It lies approximately south-east of Kalisz and south-east ...

, in

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, Poland. She attended the

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań The Adam Mickiewicz University ( pl, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu; Latin: ''Universitas Studiorum Mickiewicziana Posnaniensis'') is a research university in Poznań, Poland. It traces its origins to 1611, when under the Royal Ch ...

, Law, Law - Master (2000), the

University of Łódź The University of Łódź (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Łódzki'', Latin: ''Universitas Lodziensis'') is a public research university founded in 1945 in Łódź, Poland, as a continuation of three higher education institutions functioning in Łódź in ...

, Management of Local Government Units (2001) - postgraduate studies, and the

Poznań University of Economics and Business The Poznań University of Economics and Business is a business school in Poland. The Poznań University of Economics and Business (PUEB) is an academic institution in the western part of the country attracting students from many parts of Poland. ...

, Real Estate Management (2006) - postgraduate studies. In 2002-06 and 2010-14 she was a Councilor of the Kalisz City Council. From 2014 to March 2018, she was the vice president of Kalisz, the first woman to hold the position.

Sejm

She has been 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 ...

New Left The New Left was a broad political movement mainly in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a broad range of social issues such as civil and political rights, environmentalism, feminism, gay rights, g ...

. Pawliczak was elected to the

(9th term) representing the constituency of

on 13 October 2019. She took her oath of office on 12 November 2019. In the Sejm, she works in two committees, Infrastructure and European Union affairs. In July 2021, Pawliczak and five other New Left MPs had their rights as party members suspended by the head of the New Left,

Włodzimierz Czarzasty Włodzimierz Czarzasty (born 3 May 1960) is a Polish politician who serves as the co-chairperson of the New Left party (). Biography Born in Warsaw, Poland, Czarzasty graduated with degrees in journalism and political science from the Universit ...

, with whom they had disagreed. The suspended politicians sent a letter to Czarzasty in which they questioned the fact that certain political commitments were made on behalf of the party, and allowed their letter to be public. Czarzasty accused them of an action grossly violating the obligation to care for the good name of the party. Pawliczak said: "Democracy, not bullying; talking, not suspending and expelling from the party ... I want to continue building such a democratic party with my friends." On November 11, 2021, on Poland's Independence Day, Polish far-right nationalists at a rally in Kalisz attended by hundreds of people yelled "Death to Jews." They then burned a red-covered book meant to symbolize the 1264

Statute of Kalisz The General Charter of Jewish Liberties known as the Statute of Kalisz, and the Kalisz Privilege, granted Jews in the Middle Ages special protection and positive discrimination in Poland when they were being persecuted in Western Europe. These r ...

historic pact protecting Poland's Jewish rights. Pawliczak posted a video of the event on Twitter, writing: "Where were the city authorities?" She said as well: "As Marian Turski used to say - "Do not be indifferent,

Auschwitz Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...

has not fallen from heaven," and something terrible may happen if there is consent to this type of behavior." She criticized the Mayor of Kalisz, Krystian Kinastowski, saying he was guilty of neglect for not forbidding or dissolving the rally, and also criticized the slowness of the negative reaction of the national government, saying "It took four days? After four days, the president of the country reacted, and after five days the

minister of internal affairs Minister may refer to: * Minister (Christianity), a Christian cleric ** Minister (Catholic Church) * Minister (government), a member of government who heads a ministry (government department) ** Minister without portfolio, a member of government w ...

Personal life

Pawliczak is married, and has two children.

References

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