Sejm Constituency No. 24
Białystok constituency () is a Polish List of Polish parliamentary districts, parliamentary constituency that is coterminous with the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It elects fourteen members of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, Sejm. The district has the number '24', and is named after the city of Białystok. It includes the Powiat, counties of Augustów County, Augustów, Białystok County, Białystok, Bielsk County, Bielsk, Grajewo County, Grajewo, Hajnówka County, Hajnówka, Kolno County, Kolno, Łomża County, Łomża, Mońki County, Mońki, Sejny County, Sejny, Siemiatycze County, Siemiatycze, Sokółka County, Sokółka, Suwałki County, Suwałki, Wysokie Mazowieckie County, Wysokie Mazowieckie, and Zambrów County, Zambrów and the City county (Poland), city counties of Białystok, Łomża, and Suwałki. List of members 2023–2027 Footnotes {{coord missing, Podlaskie Voivodeship Sejm constituencies Białystok Podlaskie Voivodeship ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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's Republic, transition of government in 1989. Along with the upper house of parliament, the Senate of Poland, Senate, it forms the national legislature in Poland known as Parliament of Poland#National Assembly, National Assembly (). The Sejm comprises 460 Member of parliament, deputies (singular or ) elected every four years by Universal suffrage, universal ballot. The Sejm is presided over by a Speaker of parliament, speaker, the "Marshal of the Sejm" (). In the Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569), Kingdom of Poland, the term ''Sejm'' referred to an entire two-Chambers of parliament, chamber parliament, comprising the Chamber of Deputies (), the Senate and the King. It was thus a three-estate parliament. The 1573 Henrician Articles strengthe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Zambrów County
__NOTOC__ Zambrów County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and only town is Zambrów, which lies west of the regional capital Białystok. The county covers an area of . As of 2019 its total population is 43,663, out of which the population of Zambrów is 22,098 and the rural population is 21,565. Neighbouring counties Zambrów County is bordered by Łomża County to the north, Białystok County and Wysokie Mazowieckie County to the east, and Ostrów Mazowiecka County to the south-west. Administrative division The county is subdivided into five gmina The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' ) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,479 gminy throughout the country, encompassing over 43,000 villages ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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]   |
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Alicja Łepkowska-Gołaś
Alicja Łepkowska-Gołaś (Born 1 January 1983 in Łomża) is a Polish politician, local government official and social activist and member of the Sejm of the 10th term. Biography In 2009, she obtained a bachelor's degree in public administration from the Higher School of Public Administration in Ostrołęka, and in 2012 a master's degree in human resources management. She started working at the City Hall in Łomża. For ten years, she ran a day care center for refugee children in that city. She joined the Civic Platform, becoming vice-chair of the party's structures in Łomża. On behalf of the Civic Coalition, she unsuccessfully ran for councilor of Łomża in 2018 and for MP in 2019. In the 2023 Polish parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 15 October 2023 to elect members of the Sejm and Senate of Poland, Senate. A 2023 Polish referendum, referendum containing four questions concerning economic and immigration policy of the government ..., s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jarosław Zieliński
Jarosław Zieliński (born 20 September 1960 in Szwajcaria) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 15780 votes in 24 Białystok district as a candidate from the Law and Justice Law and Justice ( , PiS) is a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist and National conservatism, national-conservative List of political parties in Poland, political party in Poland. The party is a member of European Conservatives and Refo ... list. He was also a member of Sejm 2001-2005. See also * Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2007 External linksJarosław Zieliński - parliamentary page- includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches. Members of the Polish Sejm 2001–2005 Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007 Members of the Polish Sejm 2007–2011 Members of the Polish Sejm 2011–2015 Members of the Polish Sejm 2015–2019 Members of the Polish Sejm 2019–2023 Law and Justice politicians 1960 births Living ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jacek Sasin
Jacek Robert Sasin (born 6 November 1969 in Warsaw) is a Polish politician and former local government official. Biography The son of Wojciech, a turner, and Irena, an office worker. He graduated from the 20th Secondary School named after Bolesław the Brave in Warsaw. In 2007 he assumed the role of Voivode of the Masovian Voivodeship. His career included stints as the deputy head of the Chancellery of the President and as secretary of state in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. In the local elections of 2010, he became a councilor of the Masovian Voivodeship Sejmik on behalf of PiS. He was also appointed mayor of the Praga-Northc district, but ultimately he did not take up this position. In 2011, he became the candidate of Law and Justice in the parliamentary elections in the Warsaw district and obtained a parliamentary mandate, receiving 29,134 votes. In 2014, he was the candidate of Law and Justice in the 2014 Polish local elections for the office of the mayor of W ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dariusz Piontkowski
Dariusz Piontkowski (born 17 December 1964 in Sielc) is a Polish politician, former marshal of Podlasie province, and current MP (in his third term). From 4 June 2019 to 19 October 2020 he was the minister of national education under Mateusz Morawiecki. He was in charge of the Law and Justice organization in the Podlaskie Voivodeship. Biography He graduated in 1988 from the Faculty of Humanities, Branch of the University of Warsaw in Białystok. He also completed postgraduate studies in management ( Academy of Finance and Management in Białystok) and at the Białystok School of Public Administration. He has worked as a teacher at the Adam Mickiewicz High School No. 1 in Białystok. He worked as a teacher at the Adam Mickiewicz High School in Białystok. From 1990, he was active in the Centre Agreement, then joined Law and Justice. From 1994 to 2007 he sat on the Białystok city council. In the early elections to the Podlaskie Voivodeship Sejmik in 2007, he was elected as a c ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sebastian Łukaszewicz
Sebastian Łukaszewicz (born February 9, 1991, in Białystok) is a Polish local government official and manager, in 2022–2023 vice-marshal of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. He is a member of the Sejm of the 10th term. Biography Son of Andrzej and Elżbieta. He studied French philology with Spanish and internal security at the University of Białystok, in 2017 he obtained a bachelor's degree in the latter field. In 2020 he graduated from MBA studies at the Management Academy of Applied Sciences in Warsaw. In 2019 he became deputy director of the Białystok branch of Totalizator Sportowy, and was also a member of the boards of various institutions, including the Polish Mutual Insurance Company He became involved in political activities within the Law and Justice party. In 2010 he ran for the Podlaskie Voivodeship Sejmik. In 2015–2018, he was an advisor to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Krzysztof Jurgiel, responsible for cooperation with local governments and no ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kazimierz Gwiazdowski
Kazimierz Gwiazdowski (born June 10, 1962, in Radziłów) is a Polish politician, farmer and local government official, member of the Sejm of the 5th, 6th, 8th and 9th term. Biography He has secondary technical education (in 1982 he graduated from the Technical Secondary School of Water Reclamation in Białystok, and previously from 1969 to 1977 he attended the Primary School in Mścichy). Until 1984, he worked at the District Melioration Company in Grajewo, and then at a farm, which he became the owner of in 1986. From 1988 to 1991, he was the village head of Mścichy. In the years 1990–2006 he served as the head of the Gmina Radziłów . In the early 1990s, he was also a councilor of this commune. He was also a councilor of the Podlaskie Voivodeship Sejmik of the 1st term (1998–2002) from the Solidarity Electoral Action list. In the years 1991–1996 he was the president of the municipal board of the Volunteer Fire Department in Radziłów. He also held, among others, as t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jacek Bogucki
Jacek Bogucki (born 13 February 1959 in Wysokie Mazowieckie) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005 with 7,189 votes in 24 Białystok district as a candidate from the Law and Justice list. In 2007, he was reelected, almost doubling his support with 13,236 votes. On 4 November 2011 he, along with 15 other supporters of the dismissed PiS MEP Zbigniew Ziobro, left Law and Justice on ideological grounds to form a breakaway group, United Poland Sovereign Poland (, SP), also known as United Poland (; alternatively translated to Solidarity Poland), until 2023, was a Catholic-nationalist political party in Poland led by Zbigniew Ziobro. It was founded in 2012, as the Catholic-nationalis .... See also * Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2007 * Members of Polish Sejm 2007-2011 References External linksJacek Bogucki - parliamentary page- includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches. Jacek Bogucki - Official Website {{DEF ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Law And Justice (Poland)
Law and Justice ( , PiS) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Poland. The party is a member of European Conservatives and Reformists Group. Its chairman has been Jarosław Kaczyński since 18 January 2003. It was founded in 2001 by Jarosław and Lech Kaczyński as a direct successor of the Centre Agreement after it split from the Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS). It won the 2005 parliamentary and presidential elections, after which Lech became the president of Poland. It headed a parliamentary coalition with the League of Polish Families and Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland between 2005 and the 2007 election. It placed second and they remained in the parliamentary opposition until 2015. It regained the presidency in the 2015 election, and later won a majority of seats in the parliamentary election. They retained the positions following the 2019 and 2020 election, but lost their majority following the 2023 Polish parliam ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Adam Andruszkiewicz
Adam Andruszkiewicz (born 30 June 1990 in Grajewo) is a far-right Polish politician, who has been the president of the All-Polish Youth (Polish: Młodzież Wszechpolska) from 2015 to 2016, member of the Sejm, president of the Stowarzyszenie Endecja and vice president of the Komisja Łączności z Polakami za Granicą (English: Commission on Communications with Poles Living Abroad). Andruszkiewicz used to be in the National Movement and leader of the nationalist All-Polish Youth, but he left these organizations in 2018 to join Free and Solidary and, later, Law and Justice Law and Justice ( , PiS) is a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist and National conservatism, national-conservative List of political parties in Poland, political party in Poland. The party is a member of European Conservatives and Refo .... Career In 2015 Andruszkiewicz showed his support for the Prime Minister candidate, Paweł Kukiz. In 2018 he left the Kukiz 15 movement and later joined ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |