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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] |
10th Term Sejm And 11th Term Senate Of Poland
The 10th term Sejm and the 11th term Senate is the legislature of the Poland, Republic of Poland following the 2023 Polish parliamentary election held on 15 October 2023 which returned 460 deputies to the Sejm and 100 senators to the Senate of Poland, Senate. The Parliament of Poland held its inaugural meeting on 13 November 2023. Current standings List of Parliamentary clubs and circles Distribution of seats for individual parties 10th term Sejm List of political officers 11th term Senate Governments References Politics of Poland Government of Poland 2023 establishments in Poland {{Sejms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Third Cabinet Of Donald Tusk
The Third Cabinet of Donald Tusk is the Coalition government, coalition Council of Ministers (Poland), government of Poland headed by Donald Tusk who was officially nominated and confirmed as the Prime Minister of Poland on 11 December 2023 by the members of the Sejm following the failure of Mateusz Morawiecki's Third Cabinet of Mateusz Morawiecki, Third Cabinet to secure a vote of confidence. On 12 December, Tusk addressed the parliament and announced members of his cabinet, later that day Tusk's cabinet successfully obtained a vote of confidence with 248 of the 460 MPs voting in the affirmative. He and his cabinet were officially sworn in by president Andrzej Duda on 13 December 2023. Tusk previously served as Prime Minister of Poland between 2007 and 2014, President of the European Council between 2014 and 2019, and the president of the European People's Party (EPP) from 2019 to 2022. The opposition's victory in the 2023 Polish parliamentary election and Tusk's return to powe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wojciech Konieczny
Wojciech Jan Konieczny (born 30 September 1970) is a Polish physician and politician, member of the Senate since 2019. Political activity He graduated from the Medical University of Silesia in Zabrze. In 2001 he won the Polish championship in basketball of doctors. In 1997 he started working at the Municipal Hospital in Częstochowa. In 2013 he became the director of this institution. From the committees associated with the SLD, he ran unsuccessfully: in 2006 to the Częstochowa City Council, in 2007 and 2015 to the Sejm, in 2011 to the Senate, and in 2010, 2014 and 2018 to the Silesian Regional Assembly. After the elections to the European Parliament in 2019, he assumed the seat in the Silesian Regional Assembly, replacing Marek Balt in the regional council, who became an MEP. In the parliamentary elections in 2019, he was a candidate for the Senate of the Republic of Poland from the Democratic Left Alliance (with the support of the Civic Coalition and the Polish Peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Socialist Party
The Polish Socialist Party (, PPS) is a democratic socialist political party in Poland. It was one of the most significant parties in Poland from its founding in 1892 until its forced merger with the communist Polish Workers' Party to form the Polish United Workers' Party in 1948. Józef Piłsudski, founder of the Second Polish Republic, was a member of and later led the PPS in the early 20th century. The party was re-established in 1987, near the end of the Polish People's Republic. However, it remained on the margins of Polish politics until 2019, when it won a seat in the Senate of Poland. History The Polish Socialist Party (PPS) was founded in Paris in 1892, during the period known as the Great Emigration. In 1893, a faction called the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) split from the PPS. The PPS focused more on nationalism and Polish independence, while the SDKPiL adopted a far-left (Marxist), internationalist stance. In November 1892, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waldemar Witkowski
Waldemar Włodzimierz Witkowski (born 29 October 1953) is a Polish politician, currently serving as a senator. He has been a leader of the Labour Union since 2006, and from 2006 to 2018 served as a member of the Greater Poland Voivodeship Sejmik. Biography Witkowski was born in Poznań in 1953. He is married and has two children: a daughter, Monika, and son, Maciej. Witkowski is also a notable cooperation movement activist. He was a member of the Polish United Workers' Party from 1976 until the party dissolved itself in 1990. Then he joined the Labour Union, and quickly rose to become one of the union's leaders in Greater Poland Voivodeship. Witkowski served as an honorary member of the executive body of the re-election campaign of President Aleksander Kwaśniewski in 2000 (when the Labour Union supported Kwaśniewski). The Labour Union and Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) formed a coalition prior to the 2001 parliamentary elections. Witkowski served as one of the coalition's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labour Union (Poland)
Labour Union (, ''UP'') is a minor social-democratic political party in Poland. It was a member of the Party of European Socialists (PES) until April 2022. Berlin, 14-15 October 2022. History Labour Union was formed in June 1992. The party contested the 1993 parliamentary elections, obtaining 7.28% of the popular vote and had 41 representatives elected to the lower house (). In the following[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Left (Poland)
The Left () is a political alliance in Poland. Initially founded to contest the 2019 Polish parliamentary election, 2019 parliamentary election, the alliance now consists of the New Left (Poland), New Left and other smaller parties. It also originally consisted of Democratic Left Alliance (Poland), Democratic Left Alliance and Spring (political party), Spring until its merging to create the New Left, including the Polish Socialist Party that left the coalition in 2021. It is also supported by several minor left-wing parties, including Your Movement, ''Yes for Łódź'', ''Urban Movement'', and the Polish Communist Party (2002), Polish Communist Party. The Left is a Big tent, catch-all coalition of the Polish left, and it is positioned on the Centre-left politics, centre-left. It is mainly orientated towards the principles of social democracy, but it also advocates Progressivism, progressive, Social liberalism, social-liberal and Secularism, secular policies, including LGBT rights ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Józef Zając (mathematician)
Józef Zając (born 14 March 1947 in Stany Nowe) is a Polish mathematician, academic teacher, and Habilitation, habilitated doctor of Mathematical sciences, mathematical sciences. Zając is also a Senate, senator of the VIII, IX and X Senate of Poland. He is also a member of the Agreement (political party), Agreement political party. References 1947 births Living people Members of the Senate of Poland 2023–2027 Members of the Senate of Poland 2019–2023 Members of the Senate of Poland 2015–2019 Members of the Senate of Poland 2011–2015 20th-century Polish mathematicians 21st-century Polish mathematicians Rectors of universities in Poland People from Janów Lubelski County {{Poland-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski
Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski (born 28 July 1964 in Kielce) is a Polish politician and lawyer, associate professor of law at the University of Lodz. Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the governments of Jerzy Buzek (2000–2001), Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (2005–2006) and Jarosław Kaczyński (2006–2007), deputy speaker of the Sejm of the fourth term. Member of the Sejm of the 1st (1991–1993) and of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th term (1997–2014), Member of the European Parliament of the 8th term (2014–2019), senator of the 10th term (from 2019). Author of press publications, as well as the author, co-author and editor of books devoted mainly to cultural and historical policy, political and constitutional issues as well as the history of Polish conservatism and conservative thought. He has published in Rzeczpospolita, Gazeta Wyborcza, Dziennik, Wprost, Gazeta Polska, Gość Niedzielny, Nowe Państwo and Życie. He was a member of the editorial board of Polityka Pols ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centre For Poland
The Centre for Poland () is a Polish conservative political party. It was formed on 2 May 2022 by the former Civic Platform MPs and the local government activists affiliated with the Polish Coalition. The goal of the group is to unify the conservative wing of the Coalition and to attract young conservative voters. In the summer of 2024, Hubert Cichocki, senator Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski, and Marek Tokarczyk and Jacek Wojnicki, among others, left the party. They resumed (in cooperation with Aleksander and Katarzyna Hall) the activities of the think tank "Centrum Dobrego Państwa". Deputies Deputies were elected on the Polish Coalition and Civic Platform lists. * Ireneusz Raś: leader of the party. * Jacek Tomczak * Radosław Lubczyk * Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski Ideology The party has yet to provide a full ideological manifesto; however, it has been described by journalists as a party created by the Polish Coalition to attract young, conservative and patriotic voters who a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish People's Party
The Polish People's Party (, PSL) is a conservative 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 its name was changed to the present one in 1903. During the Second Polish Republic, the Polish People's Party was represented by a number of parties that held its name. They were all supportive of agrarian policies, although they spanned from the left-wing to the centre-right on the political spectrum. It was reformed to the People's Party shortly after the Sanacja regime took power. It took part into the formation of Polish government-in-exile during the World War II, and after the war it was again reformed into the Polish People's Party, and soon after into the United People's Party. During the existence of the Polish People's Republic, it was seen as a satellite party of the ruling Polish United Workers' Party that promoted rural interests. After the fall of co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Third Way (Poland)
The Third Way (, TD) is a political alliance in Poland that was formed on 27 April 2023, before the 2023 parliamentary election. The coalition's aim is to provide an alternative to both Law and Justice and Civic Platform, the dominant political parties in Poland since the 2000s. The coalition was created by centrist Poland 2050 of Szymon Hołownia and the conservative Polish People's Party, which leads the centre-right Polish Coalition. History Unofficial cooperation between Poland 2050 and Polish People's Party was announced by Szymon Hołownia and Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz on 7 February 2023 as "common list of things to do". Parties declared willing to cooperate in the areas of judicial system, education and local governments. After long negotiations the parties decided to run together in the parliamentary election on 27 April, and then revealed the name of the coalition on 15 May. In spite of cooperating during election both parties created two separate political groups i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
