Teresa Piotrowska | |
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Minister of the Interior | |
In office 22 September 2014 –16 November 2015 | |
Prime Minister | Ewa Kopacz |
Preceded by | Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz |
Succeeded by | Mariusz Błaszczak (as Minister of Interior and Administration) |
Member of the Sejm | |
In office 19 October 2001 –11 November 2019 | |
Constituency | 4 Bydgoszcz |
Personal details | |
Born | Tczew,Polish People's Republic | 5 February 1955
Political party | Civic Platform |
Alma mater | Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University |
Teresa Piotrowska (born 5 February 1955) is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005,getting 16,716 votes in 4 Bydgoszcz district,as a candidate from the Civic Platform list.
Piotrowska was born in Tczew on 5 February 1955. During her youth she attended the Maria Skłodowska-Curie High School in Tczew and later in 1980 attended the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw graduating with a master's degree in history. [1]
She was then later a member of the PAX Association which was a Catholic pro-communist group in Poland and became an instructor in this group,later in the 1990s she worked as a primary school teacher. [2]
She became a member of the city council of Bydgoszcz in 1994 and later from 1995 to 1998 as a member of the city board where she was tasked with overseeing social welfare and education. [2]
She then served as the last Voiovode of Bydgoszcz from March 1998 to December 1998 after which the voivodeship was integrated into the Kuyavian–Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Piotrowska was also a Member of the Sejm being first elected in the 2001 election. She was elected in Sejm Constituency no. 4 with 12,196 votes totalling 3.54% of the total votes in the constituency. [3]
Piotrowska became the Minister of the Interior of Poland on 22 September 2014 [4] in the Ewa Kopacz Cabinet. She held on to this position of Minister of the Interior for 1 year and 1 month until she lost her position as minister due to the government losing the 2015 Polish parliamentary election,she was succeeded by Mariusz Błaszczak. [5]