Jolanta Irena Szczypińska (24 June 1957 – 8 December 2018) was a Polish politician.
Biography
After professionally working as a
nurse
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, she became a member of the
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' ...
(the lower House of Parliament) after Wiesław Walendziak had stepped down in March 2004.
On
25 September 2005 she was a candidate for the 26th
Gdynia
Gdynia is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With an estimated population of 257,000, it is the List of cities in Poland, 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in the Pomeranian Voivodeship after Gdańsk ...
district, running on the
Law and Justice
Law and Justice ( , PiS) is a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist and National conservatism, national-conservative List of political parties in Poland, political party in Poland. The party is a member of European Conservatives and Refo ...
list, and was elected Sejm member, as well as on
21 October 2007, on
9 October 2011 and on
25 October 2015.
In 2007, following rumours that she was in relationship with Poland's prime minister
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 Pola ...
, the airline
Ryanair
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launched an advertising campaign which pictured the two politicians under the headline ''Are they planning a honeymoon trip?'' Szczypińska took legal action to prevent publication.
[BBC 23 May 2007]
''Ryanair faces legal row over ad''
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See also
* List of Sejm members (2005–07)
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* List of Sejm members (2007–11)
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* List of Sejm members (2011–15)
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* List of Sejm members (2015–19)
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References
External links
Jolanta Szczypińska - parliamentary page
- includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches.
Home page
1957 births
2018 deaths
People from Słupsk
Polish nurses
Law and Justice politicians
Members of the Polish Sejm 2001–2005
Women members of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland
Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007
21st-century Polish women politicians
Members of the Polish Sejm 2007–2011
Members of the Polish Sejm 2011–2015
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