Wiesław Woda (17 August 1946 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish politician.
Woda was born in
Paleśnica
Paleśnica is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zakliczyn, within Tarnów County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately south of Zakliczyn, south-west of Tarnów, and south-east of the regional ca ...
. He was elected to the
Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 8,818 votes in 15
Tarnów district as a candidate for
Polish People's Party.
He was also a member of
People's Republic of 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 ...
Sejm 1989-1991,
Sejm 1997-2001, and
Sejm 2001-2005.
He was listed on the flight manifest
Prezydenckim Tu-154 leciały najważniejsze osoby w państwie (Polish)
of the Tupolev Tu-154 of the 36th Special Aviation Regiment
The 36th Special Regiment of Aviation Transport ( pl, 36 Specjalny Pułk Lotnictwa Transportowego; 36 SPLT) was a special aviation regiment of the Polish Air Force, established in 1945. All of its aircraft were for national public use, the most ...
carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński which crashed near Smolensk-North airport near Pechersk near Smolensk, Russia, on 10 April 2010, killing all aboard.
On 16 April 2010 Woda was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. His funeral took place on 25 April 2010. There was a Mass at St Mary's Church in Kraków, concelebrated by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz Stanislav and variants may refer to:
People
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Places
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. Wieslaw Woda was buried in the Alley of the Meritorious in Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków next to Adam Studziński.
See also
*Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2007
Member may refer to:
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References
External links
Wiesław Woda - parliamentary page
- includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches.
Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007
Members of the Polish Sejm 1997–2001
Members of the Polish Sejm 2001–2005
Polish People's Party politicians
1946 births
2010 deaths
People from Tarnów County
Victims of the Smolensk air disaster
Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Members of the Polish Sejm 2007–2011
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