Leszek Cezary Miller is a Polish politician and former prime minister of Poland (2001–2004). He has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since July 2019.
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.
Marek Stefan Borowski is a Polish politician. He led the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) for a time and was Speaker of the Sejm from 2001 to 2004.
The Social Democracy of Poland is a social-democratic political party in Poland.
The Federated Parliamentary Club was a parliamentary faction in Polish Sejm consisting of the People's Democratic Party and National Party of Retirees and Pensioners and former members of Polish People's Party,Democratic Left Alliance and Samoobrona.
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 remains Poland's youngest prime minister to date.
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.
Wojciech MichałOlejniczak is a Polish leftist politician and member of the European Parliament.
Małgorzata Maria Kidawa-Błońska,née Grabska is a Polish politician,film producer,and sociologist currently serving as Marshal of the Senate. She was Marshal of the Sejm from 25 June 2015 to 11 November 2015 at the end of the Seventh term's composition of the lower house,after which being voted a Deputy Marshal of the Eighth and Ninth term,each time nominated by the opposition party Civic Platform,under the marshalcy of Marek Kuchciński and Elżbieta Witek,respectively.
Grzegorz Kurczuk is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005,getting 9,683 votes in 6 Lublin district as a candidate from Democratic Left Alliance list.
Wiesław Andrzej Szczepański is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005,getting 8253 votes in 36 Kalisz district as a candidate for the Democratic Left Alliance list.
MichałTober 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.
Grzegorz Marian Woźny,is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005,getting 9178 votes in 36 the Kalisz district as a candidate from the Democratic Left Alliance list.
Ryszard Zbrzyzny is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005,getting 9644 votes in 1 Legnica district as a candidate from Democratic Left Alliance list.
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.
Katarzyna Maria Piekarska is a Polish left-wing politician,member of the Polish Initiative party.
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.
The German Minority Electoral Committee is an electoral committee in Poland which represents the German minority. Since 2008,its representative has been Ryszard Galla. In the 2023 Polish parliamentary election,Galla lost his seat in the Sejm,leaving the party with no national representation.
Presidential elections were held in Poland on 10 and 24 May 2015. In the first round of voting Law and Justice (PiS) candidate,lawyer and Member of the European Parliament,Andrzej Duda received the greatest number of votes with a share of 34.76%,followed by incumbent president Bronisław Komorowski,who ran as an independent with the endorsement of the Civic Platform (PO),which he had renounced his membership in after winning the 2010 elections. Independent candidate PawełKukiz came third with 20.80% of the votes. As no candidate had received more than 50% of the votes cast,a second round was held on 24 May between the two highest-placed candidates,Duda and Komorowski. This round was won by Duda with 51.5% of the votes,to Komorowski's 48.5%.
Adrian Tadeusz Zandberg is a Polish historian,computer programmer,doctor of humanities,and left-wing politician serving as a member of the Sejm for Warsaw I. He is one of the co-leaders of Left Together.
