Małgorzata Teresa Ostrowska (née Kuźniewska (31 July 1958 – 8 August 2024) was a Polish politician who served as a member of the

Sejm of Poland The Sejm (), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (), is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland. The Sejm has been the highest governing body of the Third Polish Republic since the transition of government i ...

from 19 September 1993 to 4 November 2007. A native of the northern town of

Malbork Malbork (German: ''Marienburg'') is a town in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. It is the seat of Malbork County and has a population of 36,709 people as of 2024. The town is located on the Nogat river, in the historical region of Pomerelia. Fo ...

, the seat of

Malbork County __NOTOC__ Malbork County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. ...

in the

Pomeranian Voivodeship Pomeranian Voivodeship ( ; ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship, or province, in northwestern Poland. The provincial capital is Gdańsk. The voivodeship was established on January 1, 1999, out of the former voivodeships of Gdańsk Voivo ...

, Małgorzata Ostrowska belonged to 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 ...

and initially gained her Senate seat in the 1993 parliamentary election. She was a member of Sejm 1993–1997, Sejm 1997–2001, and Sejm 2001–2005. In the election held on 25 September 2005, she ran in the

Gdańsk Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdań ...

electoral district, receiving 12,861 votes, but two years later, enmeshed in a corruption investigation, she lost her parliamentary immunity and then her seat in the 2007 parliamentary election. She died on 8 August 2024, at the age of 66.Nie żyje była wiceminister i posłanka Małgorzata Ostrowska

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Małgorzata Ostrowska at the Sejm website (includes official photograph, personal interests, voting record and transcripts of speeches)
1958 births 2024 deaths People from Malbork Democratic Left Alliance politicians Members of the Polish Sejm 1993–1997 Members of the Polish Sejm 1997–2001 Members of the Polish Sejm 2001–2005 Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007 Women members of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland 20th-century Polish women politicians 21st-century Polish women politicians New Left (Poland) politicians {{Poland-Sejm-politician-stub

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