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.
Labour Union is a minor social-democratic political party in Poland. It was a member of the Party of European Socialists (PES) until April 2022.
The president of the Council of Ministers,colloquially referred to as the prime minister,is the head of the cabinet and the head of government of Poland. The responsibilities and traditions of the office stem from the creation of the contemporary Polish state,and the office is defined in the Constitution of 1997. According to the Constitution,the president nominates and appoints the prime minister,who will then propose the composition of the Cabinet. Fourteen days following their appointment,the prime minister must submit a programme outlining the government's agenda to the Sejm,requiring a vote of confidence. Conflicts stemming from both interest and powers have arisen between the offices of President and Prime Minister in the past.
The Democratic Party,abbreviated to PD,was a minor social-liberal political party in Poland. It had no members of the Sejm,Senate,or European Parliament.
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.
Józef Oleksy was a Polish left-wing politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 7 March 1995 to 7 February 1996,when he resigned due to espionage allegations. He was chairman of the Democratic Left Alliance.
The Social Democracy of Poland is a social-democratic political party in Poland.
Jerzy Andrzej Szmajdziński was a Polish politician who was a Deputy Marshal of Polish Sejm and previously served as Minister of Defence. He was a candidate for President of Poland in the 2010 election.
Waldemar Pawlak 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.
Marek Jurek is a right-wing politician and a Member of the European Parliament. Since 20 April 2007 he has been the leader of the aspirant party Right of the Republic. Politically,he is most known for being a Marshal of the Sejm in the years 2005–2007.
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.
Artur Wojciech Zawisza is a Polish politician. He is a member of the Libertas Poland party,of which he is the vice-president.
Bronisław Maria Komorowski is a Polish politician and historian who served as President of Poland from 2010 to 2015.
Grażyna Jolanta Ciemniak is a Polish political figure who has been a member of the Senate of Poland (1993–97) and Deputy President of Bydgoszcz (1998–2001),as well as member of the Sejm of Poland and member of the European Parliament (2004).
Left and Democrats was a centre-left electoral alliance of political parties in Poland which was created on 3 September 2006,before the Warsaw municipal election of 2006. The coalition's aim was to provide an alternative for both Law and Justice and Civic Platform,which have been Poland's two major political parties since 2005. LiD contested their first national election in October,2007 and won 53 seats to the Polish parliament,the Sejm. The LiD alliance was dissolved in April 2008,following a rift between the member parties.
Ekipa is a Polish political drama TV series created and directed by Agnieszka Holland,aired from 13 September 2007 until 6 December 2007 on Polsat. Ekipa is the second Polish political fiction series after the 1980s miniseries The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma based on Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz's novel of the same name.
National Party of Retirees and Pensioners 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 is former Sejm Member Tomasz Mamiński.
Waldemar Włodzimierz Witkowski is a Polish politician who is currently leader of the Labour Union,and was formerly one of the leaders of the Left and Democrats coalition,of which the Labour Union was a part. Since 2006 he is a member of the Greater Poland Regional Assembly.
Warsaw I,officially known as Constituency no. 19,is one of the 41 constituencies of the Sejm,the lower house of the Parliament of Poland,the national legislature of Poland. The constituency was established as Constituency no. 1 in 1991 following the re-organisation of constituencies across Poland. It was renamed Sejm Constituency no. 19 in 2001 following another nationwide re-organisation of constituencies. It is conterminous with the city of Warsaw. Electors living abroad or working aboard ships and oil rigs are included in this constituency. The constituency currently elects 20 of the 460 members of the Sejm using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2023 parliamentary election it had 1,993,723 registered electors.
