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2008 Polish Senate By-election
In Poland, in case of a premature expiration of a Senate (Poland), senatorial term, by-elections are held to fill the vacancy. Several by-elections have been held in Polish history following the Senate's reestablishment following the fall of Communism in Poland. Electoral system The Polish Senate is composed of one hundred Senators, all elected in majoritarian representation, single-seat constituencies, in contrast to proportional representation, several-seat electoral districts that are used to elect the Sejm. Unlike the Sejm, for which there are no by-elections, Senate by-elections are held if a Senator's term expires prematurely. A Senate term may expire prematurely in the case of: * death of the Senator * loss of electability privilege or not possessing it at election day * revocation of mandate by State Tribunal (Poland), State Tribunal * resignation from the mandate * occupation of a position which is incompatible with the office of Senator * assumption of the office of Pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senate (Poland)
The Senate () is the upper house of the Polish parliament, the lower house being the Sejm. The history of the Polish Senate stretches back over 500 years; it was one of the first constituent bodies of a bicameral parliament in Europe and existed without hiatus until the final partition of the Polish state in 1795. The contemporary Senate is composed of 100 senators elected by a universal ballot and is headed by the Marshal of the Senate (''Marszałek Senatu''). The incumbent Marshal of the Senate is Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska. Following a brief period of existence under the Second Polish Republic, the Senate was again abolished by the authorities of the Polish People's Republic. It was not re-established until the collapse of the communist government and reinstatement of democracy in Poland in 1989. The Senate is based in Warsaw and is located in a building which forms part of the Sejm Complex on Wiejska Street, in close proximity to the Three Crosses Square and Ujazdów Cas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romuald Jankowski
Romuald Jankowski (19 February 1934 – 12 February 1994) was a Polish politician from the Polish People's Party. He served as member of the Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ... from 14 October 1993 until almost one month after his death, 10 March 1994. References 1934 births 1994 deaths People from Lutsk People from Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–1939) Polish People's Party politicians Members of the Senate of Poland 1993–1997 {{Poland-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Zychowicz
Zbigniew Stanisław Zychowicz (April 29, 1953 – January 6, 2016) was a Polish politician and member of the Democratic Left Alliance (Poland), Democratic Left Alliance (SDL). He served as the Voivodeship Marshal of West Pomeranian Voivodeship from 1999 to 2000. He was a deputy to the Senate of Poland for IV and V term. Biography He was born in 1953 in Miastko to a working-class family. In 1978 he graduated from agricultural economics at the Agricultural University in Szczecin. He has also completed postgraduate studies of rural sociology and agriculture at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. He completed research internships in Heidelberg University, Heidelberg and at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism at the University of Warsaw. Since 1978 he was working for Agricultural University in Szczecin. In 1982 he obtained a PhD at the University of Silesia in Katowice, University of Silesia. In the years 1994-1998 he chaired the Self-Government Assembly of the Szcze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lustration In Poland
Lustration in Poland is the policy of limiting the participation of former communists – especially of informants of the communist secret police – during 1944–1990, in successor governments or even in civil-service positions. The term ''lustration'', "cleansing", stems from the Latin word ''lustratio'', for a Roman purification ceremony. The first Polish lustration bill was passed by the Polish parliament in 1992, but was declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland. Subsequently other bills were submitted and reviewed by a special commission, resulting in a new lustration law passed in 1996. 1997–2007 In the years 1997–2007 lustration was dealt with by the office of Public Interest Spokesperson ('' Rzecznik Interesu Publicznego''), who analyzed lustration declarations and could initiate further proceedings, including submitting a request to the courts to initiate a legal lustration proceeding. The declarations may be seen as form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marian Jurczyk
Marian Jurczyk (16 October 1935 – 30 December 2014) was a Polish politician and Solidarity trade union activist. He was a Senator in the Polish Senate from 1997 to 2000, and mayor of Szczecin Szczecin ( , , ; ; ; or ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the Poland-Germany border, German border, it is a major port, seaport, the la ... from 18 November 1998 to 24 January 2000. On 21 November 2002 he was again elected mayor and served until 4 December 2006. His achievements are however widely criticized and he is blamed for the compensation of over 10 million zloty, which the city must pay for canceling the land selling deal, his lack of formal education, and his apparent cluelessness in many important matters. Jurczyk's famous errors include forgetting the name of the deputy he had just nominated or quoting Jesus in a speech to the council. Because of this criticism re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Party Of Retirees And Pensioners
National Party of Retirees and Pensioners (, KPEiR) is a minor left-wing political party in Poland. The main goal of KPEiR is protecting retired seniors, pensioners and trust-busting. The current leader (Prezes, President in English) is former Sejm Member Tomasz Mamiński. KPEiR was founded in 1994. However, the party lost the parliamentary election in 1997 winning just 284 826 votes (2.18%) and no seat in Sejm and Senate. During municipal elections of 1998 KPEiR, allied with Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), Polish People's Party (PSL) and Labor Union (UP) won some seats. During the 2001 parliamentary election KPEiR run in coalition with SLD, UP and Democratic Party. Coalition won the election in a landslide and SLD/UP formed the government together with PSL. Tomasz Mamiński, the party leader, had won a Sejm seat in Warsaw. However, Mamiński was expelled from Parliamentary club of SLD after scandal in Sejm restaurant. Then he joined Federacyjny Klub Parlamentarny, which in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solidarity Electoral Action
Solidarity Electoral Action (, AWS) was a coalition of political parties in Poland, active from 1996 to 2001. AWS was the political arm of the Solidarity (Polish trade union), Solidarity trade union, whose leader Lech Wałęsa (also an AWS member), was President of Poland from 1990 to 1995, and the successor of the parties emerged from the fragmentation of the Solidarity Citizens' Committee. The coalition was led by Marian Krzaklewski and Jerzy Buzek, who was Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001. Today's main parties in Poland, Law and Justice and Civic Platform, came out from the ashes of AWS. History The AWS was formed in June 1996 as a coalition of over 30 Christian democracy, Christian-democratic, Conservatism, conservative and Liberalism, liberal political parties, mostly from the Solidarity Citizens' Committee, the Solidarity (Polish trade union), Solidarity trade union's political wing. Among them, there were the Christian National Union, the Party of Christian Demo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Chełkowski
August Chełkowski (, 27 February 1927 – 31 October 1999) was a prominent Polish physicist and politician. Born in the small village of Telkwice, then in East Prussia (then a part of Weimar Republic) he was a son of Franciszek Chełkowski, a wealthy landowner and prominent activist of the Polish community in Prussia and his wife Emilia (maiden name Mieczkowska). He was related to a number of other Polish activists by his maternal side. He was a 1948 graduate of the prestigious Karol Marcinkowski Lycee in Poznań (commonly known as ''Marcinek'') and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He earned his MSc degree (''magister'') in physics in 1952 and his PhD (''doktorat'') in 1958. Although he was a Poznanian, he relocated permanently to Katowice in 1967, together with a number of other scientists from Poznan. In 1968, when the University of Silesia was established, Chelkowski, along with other scientists from Poznan, established that University's Physics Institute, which wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Real Politics Union
The Real Politics Union (, UPR) is a national conservative and economically liberal political party in Poland. In the past it was right-libertarian and classical liberal. Popular support and funding UPR was founded in 1987 as the classic liberal Real Politics Movement by Janusz Korwin-Mikke, who later became its long-term leader. In the 1990s and 2000s, UPR consistently had the support of 1–2% of voters in general elections, too low to receive public funding under Polish electoral law. As a consequence, it has faced prolonged financial difficulties since its inception. In the 1991 legislative election, the party won 3 seats. In the parliamentary election in 2001, the UPR candidates started from lists of Civic Platform to Sejm. To the Senate both parties joined centre-right coalition Senate 2001 with other post-Solidarity parties. UPRs candidates commenced their political campaign from its short-lived satellite party ''Janusz Korwin-Mikke's Platform'' ("Platforma Janusza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freedom Union (Poland)
The Freedom Union (, UW) was a liberal democratic political party in Poland that was active from 1994 to 2005, when it rebranded and became the Democratic Party. History It was founded on 20 March 1994 out of the merger of the Democratic Union (''Unia Demokratyczna'', UD) and the Liberal Democratic Congress (''Kongres Liberalno-Demokratyczny'', KLD). Both of these parties had roots in the Solidarity trade union movement. It represented European democratic and liberal tradition, i.e., it advocated free market economy and individual liberty, rejected extremism and fanaticism, favoured European integration (in the form of European Union membership), rapid privatisation of the enterprises still owned by the Polish state and decentralisation of the government. In the 1991 general elections, the KLD received 7.5% of the vote and 37 seats in the Sejm (out of 460 seats) and the UD got 12.3% of the votes and 62 seats. In 1993 the KLD got 4.0% of the votes and was left without ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazimierz Działocha
Kazimierz Jan Działocha (29 January 1932 – 3 September 2024) was a Polish lawyer, judge and politician. A member of the Democratic Left Alliance, he served as a judge of the Constitutional Tribunal from 1985 to 1993, was a member of the Senate from 1995 to 1997, and served in 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' ... from 1997 to 2001. Działocha died on 3 September 2024, at the age of 92. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dzialocha, Kazimierz 1932 births 2024 deaths Constitutional court judges Democratic Left Alliance politicians Members of the Senate of Poland 1993–1997 Members of the Polish Sejm 1997–2001 People from Ostrów Wielkopolski County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bogusław Liberadzki
Bogusław Marian Liberadzki (pronounced ; born 12 September 1948 in Sochaczew) is a Polish economist and politician. He has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2004. Biography Bogusław Liberadzki is a professor of economics. He was educated at Main School of Planning and Statistics (now Warsaw School of Economics) and the University of Illinois. He holds the Chair of Transportation at the Warsaw School of Economics in Warsaw (''Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie - SGH'') and is also a professor in the Maritime University of Szczecin (''Akademia Morska w Szczecinie''). He was an under secretary (vice minister) in the Ministry of Transportation and Marine Economy (Poland), Ministry of Transportation and Maritime Economy 1989–1993 and minister in that ministry 1993–1997. Between 1997 and 2003 he was an MP (member of Sejm, lower house of Polish parliament) representing Democratic Left Alliance (Poland), Democratic Left Alliance. Since 2003 he has sat in the E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
