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Marcin Maranda
Marcin Maranda (born August 21, 1977 in Częstochowa) is a Polish politician, local official, social activist. Biography He graduated from the Faculty of History at the Jan Długosz University. In 2006, he joined the local center-right social initiative ''The Local Government Community of Tadeusz Wrona''. In the local elections in 2006 and 2010 he was elected a councilor of Częstochowa City Council from the list of this association. Then he left it and created in 2014 his own association ''Residents of Częstochowa''. His association won 13.69% and 4 seats in the local government elections in 2014 to the Częstochowa City Council. Maranda won the councilor's mandate and in the elections for the President of Częstochowa he reached the result of 15.62% of the votes, taking third place after Krzysztof Matyjaszczyk and Artur Warzocha. He became the vice-chairman of Częstochowa City Council, entering into a coalition with PO and SLD. In 2015, he started to the Senate from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Częstochowa
Częstochowa ( , ) is a city in southern Poland on the Warta with 214,342 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship. However, Częstochowa is historically part of Lesser Poland, not Silesia, and before the Partitions of Poland, 1795 Partition of Poland, it belonged to the Kraków Voivodeship (14th century – 1795), Kraków Voivodeship. Częstochowa is located in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. It is the largest economic, cultural and administrative hub in the northern part of the Silesian Voivodeship. The city is known for the famous Jasna Góra Monastery of the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit of the Catholic Church, which is the home of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa, a shrines to Mary, mother of Jesus, shrine to Mary, mother of Jesus. Every year, millions of pilgrims from all over the world come to Częstochowa to see it. Częstochowa was also home to Frankism in the late 18th and 19th centuries, an antinom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civic Platform
The Civic Platform (, PO)The party is officially the Civic Platform of the Republic of Poland (''Platforma Obywatelska Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''). is a Centre-right politics, centre-right liberal conservative political party in Poland. Since 2021, it has been led by Donald Tusk, who previously led it from 2003 to 2014 and was President of the European Council from 2014 to 2019. It was formed in 2001 by splinter factions from the Solidarity Electoral Action, the Freedom Union (Poland), Freedom Union and the Conservative People's Party (Poland), Conservative People's Party, and it later placed second in the 2001 Polish parliamentary election. It remained at the opposition until the 2007 Polish parliamentary election, 2007 Polish parliamentary opposition, when it overtook Law and Justice, won 209 seats, and Tusk was elected as prime minister of Poland, Prime Minister of Poland. Following the Smolensk air disaster in 2010, Bronisław Komorowski served as acting president of Poland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Częstochowa
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Births
Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). * January 17 – 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. * January 18 ** Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. ** Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. * January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all 11 people on board. * January 23 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Polish Local Elections
The 2018 Polish local elections were held on October 21 for all 16 regional assemblies (''sejmik wojewódzki''), 380 county (''powiat'') councils, and 2477 municipal (''gmina'') councils. There were also direct elections for heads (''wójt'') of municipalities and mayors, with a second, run-off round for these offices on November 4. The local elections were a victory of the ruling Law and Justice (Poland), Law and Justice (PiS), though the opposition Civic Coalition (Poland), Civic Coalition (PO) maintained control of the majority of cities, including the capital Warsaw. Voivodeship councils Election results (%) Seats Distribution Powiat councils Gmina councils Mayors Total elected mayors by alliance and party Voivodeship capital mayoral elections Source: National Electoral Commission (Poland), National Electoral Commission ''Bold – elected candidates'' Warsaw Warsaw Mayor Warsaw City Council Kraków Kraków Mayor Kraków City Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrzej Szewiński
Andrzej Szewiński (born 20 February 1970 in Warsaw, Poland) is a former professional volleyball player (198 cm, opposite hitter), sport activist and politician. He is the son of the sprinter Irena Szewińska. Career as sportsman From 1989/90 to 2004/05 (altogether 16 seasons), he played for AZS Częstochowa, Bipop Brescia, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Beşiktaş JK and Galatasaray S.K.. Political activity From 2006 to 2007, he was a councilor of the Silesian Regional Assembly from PO. In the parliamentary election in 2007 he was elected to a Senate in Częstochowa district, receiving 81,777 votes. Later he joined Civic Platform. In the parliamentary election in 2011, he won 37,471 votes and again won a seat to Senate from Częstochowa district. In 2014, he ran for the presidency of Częstochowa, taking 4th place out of 7 candidates. In 2015, Artur Warzocha defeated him in his senatorial reelection bid. On 30 December 2015, he replaced Krzysztof Łoziński as the vice-president of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senate Of Poland
The Senate () is the upper house of the Parliament of Poland, Polish parliament, the lower house being the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, 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 Partitions of Poland, 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 Wiejs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 an electoral alliance of centre-left politics, centre-left parties, and became a single party on 15 April 1999. It was the major coalition party in Poland between 1993 and 1997, and between 2001 and 2005, with four Prime ministers coming from the party: Józef Oleksy, Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Leszek Miller and Marek Belka. It then faded into opposition, overshadowed by the rise of Civic Platform and Law and Justice. In February 2020, the party initiated a process to absorb the Spring (political party), Spring party, choosing the name New Left (Poland), New Left (), and changing to a more modern logo. The party was a member of the Party of European Socialists and Progressive Alliance. History Ideology and support patterns The party can be classified as centre-left. However, during the 1990s, it managed to at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artur Warzocha
Artur Ryszard Warzocha (born 11 November 1969, in Piotrków Trybunalski) is a Polish politician, local official, first deputy voivode of Silesia (2006–2007), and member of the Senate of the Republic of Poland since 2015. Biography He graduated from the Faculty of Pedagogy of the Pedagogical University in Częstochowa, and completed post-graduate studies at the Warsaw School of Economics. He became an academic teacher at the Institute of Political Sciences of the Jan Długosz University. In 1998 and in 2002 he was elected to the Częstochowa City Council. In 2009, he unsuccessfully ran for the European Parliament. In 2010, he was elected a councilor of the Silesian Regional Assembly of the 4th term. He then joined the Law and Justice party. In 2011, he applied unsuccessfully for the Senate's mandate. In 2014, he was a candidate of Law and Justice in the elections for the office of President of Częstochowa, but he was not elected to this seat. In the parliamentary elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Official
An official is someone who holds an office (function or Mandate (politics), mandate, regardless of whether it carries an actual Office, working space with it) in an organization or government and participates in the exercise of authority (either their own or that of their superior or employer, public or legally private). An elected official is a person who is an official by virtue of an election. Officials may also be appointed ''ex officio'' (by virtue of another office, often in a specified capacity, such as presiding, advisory, secretary). Some official positions may be Inheritance, inherited. A person who currently holds an office is referred to as an incumbent. Something "official" refers to something endowed with governmental or other authoritative recognition or mandate, as in official language, official gazette, or official scorer. Etymology The word ''official'' as a noun has been recorded since the Middle English period, first seen in 1314. It comes from the Old French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krzysztof Matyjaszczyk
Krzysztof Adam Matyjaszczyk (born 27 May 1974, Radomsko) is a Polish politician, Member of the Polish Parliament (2007-2010), Official, local official, since 2010 president of Częstochowa. Life and career He graduated from construction and management at the Częstochowa University of Technology. He is a member of the Democratic Left Alliance (Poland), Democratic Left Alliance. In the years 2002-2007 he was a member of the Częstochowa City Council, City Council of Częstochowa, serving as vice-chairman. In the 2005 Polish parliamentary election, parliamentary election in 2005, from the list of SLD, he ran without success to the Sejm. In the 2006 Polish local elections, local government elections in 2006 from Left and Democrats, LiD, he ran for the presidency of Czestochowa, taking 3rd place out of 6 candidates (obtained 14,683 votes, which was 20.83%). In the 2007 Polish parliamentary election, parliamentary election in 2007, he was elected an Member of parliament, MP, running ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
