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Włodzimierz Czarzasty (born 3 May 1960) is a Polish politician who serves as the co-chairperson of the
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party (). He has been serving as a Deputy Marshal of the Sejm since 12 November 2019.


Biography

Born in
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, Poland, Czarzasty graduated with degrees in journalism and political science from the
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in the 1980s. Simultaneously, he was a member of Polish Students' Association (ZSP), leader of association "Ordynacka", and a member of
Polish United Workers' Party The Polish United Workers' Party (, ), commonly abbreviated to PZPR, was the communist party which ruled the Polish People's Republic as a one-party state from 1948 to 1989. The PZPR had led two other legally permitted subordinate minor parti ...
(PZPR) from 1983 to 1990. Following the fall of Communism, Czarzasty became a member of SLD, the successor of PZPR. In the 1997 general election, he ran for the SLD but lost. In May 1999, he was appointed to the National Council of Radio Broadcasting and Television by the President Aleksander Kwasniewski. He became a point of controversy during the Rywin corruption scandal, but he was not formally charged with any crime. After a long extra-parliamentary career, Czarzasty ran as part of United Left (ZL) party in the 2015 election. Since ZL has not passed the 8% threshold required to hold seats in the ''Sejm'', none of the candidates, including Czarzasty, won. During the party leadership election in January 2016, Czarzasty defeated former MP Jerzy Wenderlich and was elected as the new president of Democratic Left Alliance, replacing the incumbent leader and former Prime Minister
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. He was a candidate for the Masovian Regional Assembly during the local elections in 2018, but lost.


Sejm

In the 2019 parliamentary election, Czarzasty co-led the '' Lewica'' coalition, together with
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and
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, and was elected to the ''Sejm''. He was a candidate from
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constituency. On 12 November 2019, Czarzasty was elected Deputy Marshal of the Sejm in representation of ''Lewica''. In July 2021, Czarzasty suspended the party member rights of Karolina Pawliczak and five other New Left MPs after they disagreed with him and made their disagreement public. The suspended politicians sent a letter to Czarzasty in which they questioned the fact that certain political commitments were made on behalf of the party, and allowed their letter to be public. Czarzasty accused them of an action grossly violating the obligation to care for the good name of the party. Pawliczak said: "Democracy, not bullying; talking, not suspending and expelling from the party ... I want to continue building such a democratic party with my friends." In the 2023 elections, he successfully ran for parliamentary re-election, winning 22,332 votes. On November 13 of that year, he was elected Deputy Marshal of the Sejm under
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.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Czarzasty, Wlodzimierz 1960 births Living people Politicians from Warsaw Democratic Left Alliance politicians University of Warsaw alumni Deputy Marshals of the Sejm of the Third Polish Republic Members of the Polish Sejm 2019–2023 New Left (Poland) politicians Members of the Polish Sejm 2023–2027