The Senior Marshal ( pl, Marszałek senior) is an honorary post in

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 ...

given to one of the oldest (in age) members of the body. He is nominated by the

President of Poland The president of Poland ( pl, Prezydent RP), officially the president of the Republic of Poland ( pl, Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej), is the head of state of Poland. Their rights and obligations are determined in the Constitution of Polan ...

and functions as

Marshal of the Sejm The Marshal of the Sejm , also known as Sejm Marshal, Chairman of the Sejm or Speaker of the Sejm ( pl, Marszałek Sejmu, ) is the speaker (chair) of the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish Parliament. The office traces its origins to the 15th ...

( pl, Marszałek sejmu) until that holder of office is elected by the newly elected Sejm and Senate. Election of the marshal of the Sejm is usually the first item on the agenda for the new Sejm. Senior Marshal of the first Sejm of the

Communist Poland The Polish People's Republic ( pl, Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, PRL) was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1947 to 1989 as the predecessor of the modern Republic of Poland. With a population of approximately 37.9 million nea ...

Franciszek Trąbalski Franciszek Trąbalski (October 10, 1870, Czempiń – July 26, 1964) was a Polish socialist politician and a longtime member of Polish Socialist Party (PPS). Life Franciszek Trąbalski, called Francis, was with Mary, born Mackowiak married. He ...

during his short term as the Senior Marshal acted also as a head of state.

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Third Republic

Sejm

* Zbigniew Rudnicki ( SD), July 4, 1989 * Aleksander Małachowski (SP), November 25, 1991 * Aleksander Małachowski ( UP), October 14, 1993 * Józef Kaleta ( SLD), October 20, 1997 * Aleksander Małachowski (UP), October 19, 2001 * Józef Zych ( PSL), October 19 - October 24, 2005 *

Zbigniew Religa Zbigniew Eugeniusz Religa (; 16 December 1938 – 8 March 2009) was a prominent Polish cardiac surgeon and politician. Career as doctor Religa finished his studies at the Medical University of Warsaw in 1963. From 1966 to 1980 he worked in ...

(

PiS Pis ( oc, Pis) is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France. Geography Localisation Hydrography The river Auroue forms most of the commune's eastern border. Population See also *Communes of the Gers department The fol ...

), November 5, 2007 * Józef Zych (PSL), November 8, 2011 *

Kornel Morawiecki Kornel Andrzej Morawiecki (3 May 1941 – 30 September 2019) was a Polish politician, the founder and leader of Fighting Solidarity (Polish: ''Solidarność Walcząca''), one of the splinters of the Solidarity movement in Poland during the 1980s ...

( WiS), November 12, 2015 *

Antoni Macierewicz Antoni Macierewicz (; born 3 August 1948) is a Polish politician and the former Minister of National Defence. He previously served as the Minister of Internal Affairs, Head of the Military Counterintelligence Service, and Minister of State in ...

(PiS), November 12, 2019

Senate

* Stanisław Stomma (

Solidarity ''Solidarity'' is an awareness of shared interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies creating a psychological sense of unity of groups or classes. It is based on class collaboration.''Merriam Webster'', http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictio ...

), July 4, 1989 *

Jan Tomasz Zamoyski Jan Tomasz Zamoyski (12 June 1912 in Klemensów – 29 June 2002 in Warsaw) was a Polish political activist. He was the 16th and last Ordynat of the Zamoyski Family Fee Tail, senator (1991–1993), president of the National-Democratic Party (s ...

( ZChN), November 26, 1991 * Jan Mulak ( PPS), October 15, 1993 *

Władysław Bartoszewski Władysław Bartoszewski (; 19 February 1922 – 24 April 2015) was a Polish politician, social activist, journalist, writer and historian. A former Auschwitz concentration camp prisoner, he was a World War II resistance fighter as part of th ...

( UW), October 21, 1997 * Andrzej Wielowieyski (UW), October 20, 2001 *

Kazimierz Kutz Kazimierz Julian Kutz (16 February 1929 – 18 December 2018) was a Polish film director, author, journalist and politician, one of the representatives of the Polish Film School and a deputy speaker of the Senate of Poland. Biography Kazimierz ...

(Independent), October 20, 2005 * Ryszard Bender (PiS), November 5, 2007 *

(Independent), November 8, 2011 *

Michał Seweryński Michał Seweryński (born 1 July 1939 in Łódź) is a professor of the University of Łódź. Doctor honoris causa of the University of Lyon 3. Expert on Polish and international labour law. The author of about 130 scientific publications and r ...

(PiS), November 12, 2015 *

Barbara Borys-Damięcka Barbara Borys-Damięcka (born 2 November 1937) is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Senate of Poland The Senate ( pl, Senat) is the upper house of the Polish parliament, the lower house being the Sejm. The history of the Polish S ...

( KO), November 12, 2019