Andrzej Tadeusz Gąsienica-Mąkowski (born February 15, 1952, in

Zakopane Zakopane (Gorals#Language, Podhale Goral: ''Zokopane'') is a town in the south of Poland, in the southern part of the Podhale region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. From 1975 to 1998, it was part of Nowy Sącz Voivodeship; since 1999, it has ...

) is a Polish Goral

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and poet who led the

Nonpartisan Bloc for Support of Reforms The Nonpartisan Bloc for Support of Reforms (, BBWR) was an officially nonpartisan organization (but, in fact, a political party) affiliated with Lech Wałęsa. The party was established in 1993, and became part of Solidarity Electoral Action in ...

in 1993. He led the party in the

1993 Polish parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 19 September 1993. All 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators of the Senate of Poland, Senate were elected. The elections were won by the left-wing parties of the Democratic Left Alliance (Poland) ...

where the party won 16 seats. He also served as mayor of Tatra country. He graduated from the Tadeusz Kościuszko Kraków University of Technology Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, he went on to work as a teacher. He was a member of parliament of a term from the list of the Gorals and the second term from the list

. He was reelection in the parliamentary elections in 1997 (received 12 918 votes). Since 1998, he has continued as a councilor, and later governor of the Tatra County, re-elected to both of these offices in 2006 and 2010. In 1996–2002 he headed the Union of the Highlanders. He is the leader of a local group Unity of Tatra. He joined the Christian Movement for Self-Government, he served as deputy chief of the council.

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People from Zakopane] Polish schoolteachers 1952 births Living people Members of the Polish Sejm 1991–1993 Members of the Polish Sejm 1993–1997 Polish Gorals Knights of the Order of Polonia Restituta Recipients of the Silver Cross of Merit (Poland) {{Poland-Sejm-politician-stub