Roman Bolesław Bartoszcze (9 December 1946 – 31 December 2015) was a Polish
agrarian politician
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from
Polish People's Party
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(PSL).
Bartoszcze was born in
Jaroszewice
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, and worked on his family farm there, and later in Sławęcin, until 1966. He did
national service
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from 1966 to 1968.
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From 1969 to 1980 he was a member of
Polish United Workers' Party
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satellite
United People's Party (ZSL). In 1980 he broke with ZSL and joined oppositional ''Peaseant Solidarity'', which was merged into
Solidarity
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movement in 1981. During
Martial law
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he was arrested and imprisoned for two months as a result of his participation in the
Bydgoszcz events
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. After his release Bartoszcze acted in the All-Poland Peasants Resistance Committee and was an editor of newspaper ''Żywią i bronią''.
Elected in 1989 as
Contract Sejm member from the
Solidarity Citizens' Committee
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, he joined the reborn
Polish People's Party
The Polish People's Party ( pl, Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe, PSL) is an agrarian political party in Poland. It is currently led by Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
Its history traces back to 1895, when it held the name People's Party, although it ...
in 1990 and was soon elected its first leader.
The same year he ran for President
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and lost with 1,176,175 votes (7,15%), winning fifth place among six candidates that fall.
In 1991 he left PSL and founded small conservative Polish People's-Christian Forum "Fatherland". Re-elected
Sejm
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member in 1991 from
Center Civic Alliance
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he retired from politics with his term ended in 1993.
His brother Piotr, who was also an opposition activist, was murdered by the
Security Service.
References
External links
Sejm biography
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1946 births
2015 deaths
Members of the Polish Sejm 1991–1993
Polish People's Party politicians
Candidates in the 1990 Polish presidential election
Solidarity (Polish trade union) activists
Polish dissidents