Tomasz Nałęcz (born 10 October 1949 in Gołymin) is a Polish historian, leftist politician, former vice-Speaker 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 t ...

, a former member of the

Social Democracy of Poland The Social Democracy of Poland ( pl, Socjaldemokracja Polska, SDPL) is a social-democratic political party in Poland. Foundation The party was founded in April 2004 as a splinter group from the post-communist Democratic Left Alliance (SLD). The ...

party (SdPl) In the past he used to be member of the communist

Polish United Workers' Party The Polish United Workers' Party ( pl, Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza; ), commonly abbreviated to PZPR, was the communist party which ruled the Polish People's Republic as a one-party state from 1948 to 1989. The PZPR had led two other lega ...

(PZPR) (1970–1990) and later its social-democratic successor,

Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland (SdRP) ( pl, Socjaldemokracja Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, SdRP) was a social-democratic political party in Poland created in 1990, shortly after the Revolutions of 1989. The party was the main party of ...

. In the years 1993-2004 he was a prominent member of

Labour Union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ( ...

. He left the Labour Union after SdPl was founded by

Marek Borowski Marek Stefan Borowski (; born 4 January 1946 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish left-wing politician. He led the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) for a time and was Speaker of the Sejm (the lower, more powerful, house of Poland's parliament) from 200 ...

. In 2003–2004 Nałęcz was also the chairman of the Sejm's special parliamentary inquiring committee which tried to unravel the

Lew Rywin Lew Rywin (born 10 November 1945 in a Nizhnyeye Alkeyevo, USSR) is a Polish film producer associated with Heritage Films (est. 1991). He has also been a member of the Polish Radio and TV committee and worked in an agency, Poltel, producing for P ...

affair. In December 2009 Nałęcz was selected as the SdPl's candidate for the

election An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ...

due to take place in autumn 2010. However, following the Smolensk plane crash which killed incumbent president

Lech Kaczyński Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (; 18 June 194910 April 2010) was a Polish politician who served as the city mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 2005, and as President of Poland from 2005 until his death in 2010. Before his tenure as president, he prev ...

and brought forward the election to June, Nałęcz withdrew from the contest.''Gazeta Wyborcza'', 21 April 2010
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Works

* ''Polska Organizacja Wojskowa 1914–1918'' (1984) * ''Irredenta polska'' (1987) * ''Rządy Sejmu 1921–1926'' (1991) * ''Spór o kształt demokracji i parlamentaryzmu w Polsce w latach 1921-1926'' (1994) * ''Historia XX wieku'' (2000)

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1949 births Living people People from Ciechanów County 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers University of Warsaw alumni Academic staff of the University of Warsaw Polish United Workers' Party members Labour Union (Poland) politicians Deputy Marshals of the Sejm of the Third Polish Republic Members of the Polish Sejm 1993–1997 Members of the Polish Sejm 2001–2005 {{Poland-politician-stub

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