Bronisława Kowalska (5 December 1955 – 26 December 2020) was a Polish politician.

Biography

Born in

Starachowice Starachowice is a city in southeastern Poland (historic Lesser Poland), with 49,513 inhabitants (31.12.2017). It is the capital of Starachowice County in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. It is situated upon the River Kamienna, a tributary of ...

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, she served as a

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from

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

and as a MEP in 2004. She was a member of the

Democratic Left Alliance Democratic Left Alliance may refer to: * Democratic Left Alliance (Poland) The Democratic Left Alliance () was a social democracy, social-democratic list of political parties in Poland, political party in Poland. It was formed on 9 July 1991 as ...

. Kowalska, who had leukemia, died from

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Kielce Kielce (; ) is a city in south-central Poland and the capital of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. In 2021, it had 192,468 inhabitants. The city is in the middle of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Holy Cross Mountains), on the banks of the Silnic ...

amid the

COVID-19 pandemic in Poland The COVID-19 pandemic in Poland was a part of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 strain of coronavirus. , Poland had a cumulative total of 6,775,116 confirmed cases (17,849 per 100,000 population), and 120,976 deaths (31 ...

, 21 days after her 65th birthday.Nie żyje poseł Bronisława Kowalska
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References

1955 births 2020 deaths Women members of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland Members of the Polish Sejm 1993–1997 Members of the Polish Sejm 1997–2001 Members of the Polish Sejm 2001–2005 Women MEPs for Poland MEPs for Poland 2004 20th-century Polish women politicians 21st-century Polish women politicians Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland Polish schoolteachers People from Starachowice Democratic Left Alliance politicians {{Poland-Sejm-politician-stub