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Jarosław Kaczyński
Jarosław Aleksander Kaczyński (born 18 June 1949) is a Polish politician. He co-founded the Law and Justice (PiS) party in 2001 with his twin brother, Lech Kaczyński, and has served as its leader since 2003. He served as Prime Minister of Poland from 2006 to 2007, and has twice held the post of Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, first from 2020 to 2022, and a second time from June to November 2023. Jaroslaw Kaczyński as a student took part in protest during the 1968 Polish political crisis, March 1968 political crisis. Subsequently, he became involved in the anti-communist opposition as a collaborator of Workers' Defence Committee, KOR and KSS-KOR, KSS KOR. He took part in the protests in Gdańsk Agreement#Strikes of 1980, August 1980 when he was arrested, then joined the Solidarity (Polish trade union), Solidarity movement. In 1982 he became a member of the Polish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, Helsinki Committee. He took part in the 1988 Polish strikes, 1988 strikes. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deputy Prime Minister Of The Republic Of Poland
Deputy or depute may refer to: * Steward (office) * Khalifa, an Arabic title that can signify "deputy" * Deputy (legislator), a legislator in many countries and regions, including: ** A member of a Chamber of Deputies, for example in Italy, Spain, Argentina, or Brazil. ** A member of the Dáil Éireann (lower house of the Oireachtas). ** A member of a National Assembly, as in Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, Costa Rica, France, Pakistan, Poland or Quebec. ** A member of the Parliament, as in Kazakhstan and Lebanon. ** A member of the States of Guernsey or the States of Jersey elected by a parish or district ** Deputy (Acadian), a position in 18th-century Nova Scotia, Canada * Deputy Führer, a title for the deputy head of the Nazi Party * A subordinate ** Deputy premier, a subordinate of the Premier and next-in-command in the cabinet of the Soviet Union and its successor countries, including: *** First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union *** Deput ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Tusk
Donald Franciszek Tusk (born 22 April 1957) is a Polish politician and historian who has served as the prime minister of Poland since 2023, previously holding the office from 2007 to 2014. Tusk served as the president of the European Council (2014–2019) and leader of the European People's Party (2019–2022). He co-founded Civic Platform (PO), one of the dominant Polish political parties, and has been its longtime leader – from 2003 to 2014 and again since 2021. He is the longest-serving prime minister of the Third Polish Republic. Tusk has been officially involved in Polish politics since 1989, having co-founded multiple political parties, such as the free market–oriented Liberal Democratic Congress party (KLD). He first entered the Sejm in 1991 but lost his seat in 1993. In 1994, the KLD merged with the Democratic Union to form the Freedom Union. In 1997, Tusk was elected to the Senate and became its deputy marshal. In 2001, he co-founded another centre-right liber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sejm
The Sejm (), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (), is the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral parliament of Poland. The Sejm has been the highest governing body of the Third Polish Republic since the Polish People's Republic, transition of government in 1989. Along with the upper house of parliament, the Senate of Poland, Senate, it forms the national legislature in Poland known as Parliament of Poland#National Assembly, National Assembly (). The Sejm comprises 460 Member of parliament, deputies (singular or ) elected every four years by Universal suffrage, universal ballot. The Sejm is presided over by a Speaker of parliament, speaker, the "Marshal of the Sejm" (). In the Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569), Kingdom of Poland, the term ''Sejm'' referred to an entire two-Chambers of parliament, chamber parliament, comprising the Chamber of Deputies (), the Senate and the King. It was thus a three-estate parliament. The 1573 Henrician Articles strengthe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janusz Ziółkowski
Janusz Aleksander Ziółkowski (6 April 1924, in Sosnowiec – 5 April 2000) was a Polish sociologist and politician. He was a professor of sociology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and briefly (in 1981) its rector. He was a Solidarity activist and participated in the Polish Round Table Agreement. He was elected a senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or Legislative chamber, chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the Ancient Rome, ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior ... (1989–1991), and from 1991 to 1995 he was the Chief of The Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland. References 1924 births 2000 deaths People from Sosnowiec Polish sociologists Solidarity (Polish trade union) activists Members of the Senate of Poland 1989–1991 {{Poland-sociologist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michał Janiszewski
Division General Michał Janiszewski (15 June 1926 – 3 February 2016) was a Polish officer and public official. A close aide of General Wojciech Jaruzelski, he served for a number of years as his chief of cabinet. First when Jaruzelski was Minister of Defense (1972–1981). When Jaruzelski became a Prime Minister in 1981, Janiszewski was the head of the office of the Council of Ministers under him and the two next Prime Ministers - Zbigniew Messner and Mieczysław Rakowski. After Jaruzelski was elected President, Janiszewski became the first chief of the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland (until December 1989 People's Republic of Poland). He was a chief of the office from September 1989 until Jaruzelski stepped down on 22 December 1990. Janiszewski was also a member of the Military Council of National Salvation (1981–1983). In 1976 he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general, and in 1983 to the rank of major general. He was a doctor of military science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lech Wałęsa
Lech Wałęsa (; ; born 29 September 1943) is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as the president of Poland between 1990 and 1995. After winning the 1990 Polish presidential election, 1990 election, Wałęsa became the first democratically elected president of Poland since 1922 Polish presidential elections, 1926 and the first-ever Polish president elected by Direct election, popular vote. An electrician by trade, Wałęsa became the leader of the Solidarity (Polish trade union), Solidarity movement and led a successful pro-democratic effort, which in 1989 ended Communist rule in Poland and ushered in the end of the Cold War. While working at the Lenin Shipyard (now Gdańsk Shipyard), Wałęsa, an electrician, became a trade-union activist, for which he was persecuted by the Polish Council of State, government, placed under surveillance, fired in 1976, and arrested several times. In August 1980, he was instrumental in political negotiations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chancellery Of The President Of The Republic Of Poland
The Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland (, KPRP) is an institution that assists the President of Poland with fulfilling his tasks as head of state. The Chancellery is headed by its chief, currently being Małgorzata Paprocka. Chiefs of the Chancellery # Michał Janiszewski (September 1989 – December 21, 1990) – under President Wojciech Jaruzelski # Jarosław Kaczyński (December 22, 1990 – October 31, 1991) – Lech Wałęsa # Janusz Ziółkowski (November 1, 1991 – May 11, 1995) – Lech Wałęsa # Tomasz Kwiatkowski (May 11, 1995 – August 12, 1995) – Lech Wałęsa # Stanisław Iwanicki (August 21, 1995 – December 22, 1995) – Lech Wałęsa # Danuta Waniek (December 23, 1995 – December 2, 1997) – Aleksander Kwaśniewski # Danuta Hübner (December 2, 1997 – November 13, 1998) – Aleksander Kwaśniewski # Ryszard Kalisz (November 13, 1998 – June 13, 2000) – Aleksander Kwaśniewski # Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz (June 13, 2000 – Octobe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryszard Terlecki
Ryszard Iwon Terlecki (born 2 September 1949) is a Polish politician, the Parliamentary Caucus Head of the Law and Justice party between 2015–2023. Terlecki, a historian and professor of humanities, lectures at the Pontifical University of John Paul II. He is a member of the Sejm, serving since 2007. He served as the Deputy Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland 2015–2023. In September 2021 Terlecki said that the PIS party wants to remain in the EU and have a cooperative relationship, but that the EU 'should be acceptable to us.'with him furthering said 'If things go the way they are likely to go, we will have to search for drastic solutions,' he warned. 'The British showed that the dictatorship of the Brussels bureaucracy did not suit them and turned around and left,'. This led to some people saying Terlecki called for a Polexit. Personal life He is the son of writer and journalist Olgierd Terlecki who was a secret collaborator of the Security Service in PRL for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grażyna Gęsicka
Grażyna Gęsicka (13 December 1951 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish sociologist and politician and a former (2006–2007) Ministry of Regional Development of the Republic of Poland, minister of Regional Development in Cabinet of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Marcinkiewicz's and cabinet of Jarosław Kaczyński, Jarosław Kaczyński's government. In 2007 she was elected to the Sejm. From 2009 until her death she was the leader of Law and Justice parliamentary caucus. She was born in Warsaw. In 1974, she graduated from Warsaw University's Institute of Sociology and in 1985 received her doctorate. She was a former member of the Polish Sociological Society and the Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Francaise. She was a speaker of English language, English and French language, French. She was listed on the flight manifest [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marek Kuchciński
Marek Tadeusz Kuchciński (born 9 August 1955) is a member of the Sejm of Poland, first elected in 2001. Before 2015, he served the parliament as one of the Deputy Marshals of the Sejm, nominated by the Law and Justice club, and also as the Parliamentary Caucus Head of the above-mentioned party. From 2015 to 2019, when his party possessed the majority of seats in both houses, he held the office of Marshal of the Sejm. Early life He studied history of art at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, but did not graduate. Political career In 1999, Kuchciński co-founded the "Europe of the Carpathians", an initiative of the Sejm held at the Subcarpathian Voivodeship aimed at inspiring action for the sustainable development of the wider Carpathian region for those seven countries, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine and Hungary. Originally, the project focused on Polish- Slovak- Ukrainian cooperation, but over time has grown as a result of which in r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krzysztof Sobolewski
Krzysztof Sobolewski (born 20 September 1978 in Radymno) is a Polish politician and former local government official who was the chair of the Executive Committee of Law and Justice (PiS) from 2018 to 2021. In 2021 he became General Secretary of PiS and retained this position until October 2023 when he resigned in aftermath of PiS' loss of 2023 election. He holds a degree in administration from the Faculty of Law and Administration of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University. Having joined Law and Justice in 2003, he initially worked for Marek Kuchciński in Przemyśl. From 2005 to 2007 he was employed in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship Office in Rzeszów. From 2014 to 2018, Sobolewski sat on the council of the central borough of the City of Warsaw. In 2018 he replaced Joachim Brudziński (who had been appointed as the Minister of Interior and Administration) as chair of the Executive Committee of Law and Justice. Sobolewski was elected as a member of the Sejm in the 2019 from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
