Roman Bolesław Bartoszcze (9 December 1946 – 31 December 2015) was a Polish agrarian

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from

Polish People's Party The Polish People's Party ( pl, Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe, PSL) is an agrarian political party in Poland. It is currently led by Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. Its history traces back to 1895, when it held the name People's Party, although i ...

(PSL). Bartoszcze was born in Jaroszewice, and worked on his family farm there, and later in Sławęcin, until 1966. He did

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from 1966 to 1968.''World Who's Who'', Europa Biographical Reference, 2016. From 1969 to 1980 he was a member of

Polish United Workers' Party The Polish United Workers' Party ( pl, Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza; ), 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 lega ...

satellite United People's Party (ZSL). In 1980 he broke with ZSL and joined oppositional ''Peaseant Solidarity'', which was merged into Solidarity movement in 1981. During

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he was arrested and imprisoned for two months as a result of his participation in the Bydgoszcz events. After his release Bartoszcze acted in the All-Poland Peasants Resistance Committee and was an editor of newspaper ''Żywią i bronią''. Elected in 1989 as Contract Sejm member from the

Solidarity Citizens' Committee The Solidarity Citizens' Committee (''Komitet Obywatelski "Solidarność"'', KO "S"), also known as Citizens' Electoral Committee (''Obywatelski Komitet Wyborczy'') and previously named the Citizens' Committee with Lech Wałęsa (''Komitet Obywate ...

, he joined the reborn

in 1990 and was soon elected its first leader. The same year he ran for

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and lost with 1,176,175 votes (7,15%), winning fifth place among six candidates that fall. In 1991 he left PSL and founded small conservative Polish People's-Christian Forum "Fatherland". Re-elected

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member in 1991 from

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he retired from politics with his term ended in 1993. His brother Piotr, who was also an opposition activist, was murdered by the Security Service.

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Sejm biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bartoszcze, Roman 1946 births 2015 deaths Members of the Polish Sejm 1991–1993 Polish People's Party politicians Candidates in the 1990 Polish presidential election Solidarity (Polish trade union) activists Polish dissidents