Leszek Cezary Miller is a Polish politician. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since July 2019.
The Democratic Left Alliance was a social-democratic political party in Poland. It was formed on 9 July 1991 as an electoral alliance of 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.
The Government of Poland takes the form of a unitary parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the President is the head of state and the Prime Minister is the head of government. However, its form of government has also been identified as semi-presidential.
From 1989 through 1991, Poland engaged in a democratic transition which put an end to the Polish People's Republic and led to the foundation of a democratic government, known as the Third Polish Republic, following the First and Second Polish Republic. After ten years of democratic consolidation, Poland joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union on 1 May 2004.
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz is a Polish left-wing politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland for a year from 7 February 1996 to 31 October 1997, after being defeated in the Parliamentary elections by the Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS). He was born in Warsaw.
Waldemar Pawlak(listen) is a Polish politician. He has twice served as Prime Minister of Poland, briefly in 1992 and again from 1993 to 1995. From November 2007 to November 2012 he served as Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Economy. Pawlak is the only person who held the office of prime minister twice during the Third Republic, and he remains Poland's youngest prime minister to date.
Poland has a multi-party political system. On the national level, Poland elects the head of state – the president – and a legislature. There are also various local elections, referendums and elections to the European Parliament.
Presidential elections were held in Poland on 9 October and 23 October 2005. The outgoing President of Poland, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, had served two five-year terms and was unable to stand for a third term. Lech Kaczyński defeated Donald Tusk to become President of Poland.
Robert Leszek Moczulski is a Polish historian and politician, a member of various organizations, first supporting then supposedly opposing the communist regime in the People's Republic of Poland while dividing the opposition movement.
Leszek Dobrzyński is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Polish Sejm on 25 September 2005 by getting 7136 votes in 41 Szczecin districts. He was a candidate from the Law and Justice list.
Wiesław Leszek Jędrusik is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 9761 votes in 32 Sosnowiec district as a candidate from the Democratic Left Alliance list.
Jarosław Kalinowski is a Polish politician from the agrarian Polish People's Party (PSL).
Leszek Murzyn was a Polish politician.
Grzegorz Bernard Napieralski is a Polish left-wing politician. He is an MP and was chairman of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) from 2008 to 2011.
Jacek Jan Piechota is a Polish left-wing politician. He was the Minister of Economy from 2001 to 2003, under Prime Minister Leszek Miller, and again in 2005 under Prime Minister Marek Belka. Piechota was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, receiving 17257 votes in 41 Szczecin district as a candidate on the Democratic Left Alliance list. He was also a member of the Polish United Workers' Party from 1978 to 1990.
Leszek Sułek is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 7590 votes in 33 Kielce district as a candidate from the Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej list.
Michał Tober is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 8945 votes in 20 Warsaw district as a candidate from Democratic Left Alliance list.
Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 14,709 votes in 25 Gdańsk district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list. He is the son of former Polish President Lech Wałęsa.
The Polish National Party was a fringe nationalist and ultra-conservative political party in Poland led by Leszek Bubel. Its motto was: "I am Polish, therefore I have Polish obligations", as quoted after the Polish politician and statesman Roman Dmowski whose ideas were used by the starting point for its ideology.
Andrzej Bohdan Celiński is a Polish politician. Until 1989 activist of the democratic opposition in Poland. Former Member of Senate and Sejm. Minister of Culture in the government of Prime Minister Leszek Miller (2001-2002).
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