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Stefan Niesiołowski

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Stefan Niesiołowski
Portrait photograph of Stefan Niesiołowski from 2016
Niesiołowski in 2016
Member of the Sejm
In office
5 November 2007 – 11 November 2019
In office
20 October 1997 – 18 October 2001
In office
5 July 1989 – 31 May 1993
Deputy Marshal of the Sejm
In office
6 November 2007 – 7 November 2011
Senator
In office
19 October 2005 – 4 November 2007
Personal details
Born (1944-02-04) 4 February 1944 (age 81)
Kałęczew, Poland
Alma materUniversity of Łódź

Stefan Konstanty Niesiołowski (born 4 February 1944) is a Polish politician, professor of biology, and former opposition activist in communist Poland. He served as member of the Sejm (1989–1993, 1997–2001, 2007–2019), and senator (2005–2007). He was a Deputy Marshal of the Sejm from 2007 to 2011.

Early life and education

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Niesiołowski was born on 4 February 1944 in Kałęczew near Łódź

References

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  1. ^ 10th PRL Sejm archives: "Poseł Stefan Konstanty Myszkiewicz-Niesiołowski". orka.sejm.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  2. ^ 1st Sejm archives: "Poseł Stefan Niesiołowski". orka.sejm.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  3. ^ 3rd Sejm archives: "Poseł Stefan Niesiołowski". orka.sejm.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  4. ^ "Stefan Niesiołowski". ww2.senat.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  5. ^ 6th Sejm archives: "Poseł Stefan Niesiołowski". orka.sejm.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  6. ^ 7th Sejm archives: "Stefan Niesiołowski - Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej". sejm.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  7. ^ 8th Sejm archives: "Stefan Niesiołowski - Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej". sejm.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 4 February 2025.

Joanna Senyszyn

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Joanna Senyszyn
Senyszyn in 2019
Member of the Sejm
In office
12 November 2019 – 12 November 2023
In office
19 October 2001 – 10 June 2009
Member of the European Parliament
for Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie
In office
14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014
Parliamentary groupS&D
Personal details
Born
Joanna Raulin

(1949-02-01) 1 February 1949 (age 76)
Gdynia, Poland
Political party
  • PPS (2021–2023)
  • SLD (1999–2021)
  • PZPR (1975–1990)
Other political
affiliations
Alma materUniversity of Gdańsk
Occupation
  • Lecturer
  • publicist
  • politician
ProfessionEconomist

Joanna Senyszyn (née Raulin; born 1 February 1949) is a Polish politician, lecturer and professor of economics. She served as member of the Sejm (2009–2011, 2019–2023) and member of the European Parliament (2009–2014).

Education and academic career

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Senyszyn attended High School No. 3 in Gdynia.[1] She went on to study at the University of Gdańsk, where she obtained a master's degree and accomplished her doctorate. There in 1992 she defended her hablitation dissertation in economic theory titled Food consumption in the light of needs and conditioning.[2] She recieved a title of professor in economic sciences in 1996.

Senyszyn worked at the university until 2019.

Political activity

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Senyszyn was a member of the Polish United Workers' Party, the governing party in the Polish People's Republic, from 1975 until its dissolution in 1990.[3] Later she reflected on joining PZPR as a way to feel safer and broaden party's membership of young and educated people. She also expressed the common hopefullness of Edward Gierek's reforms at the beginings of 1970s. Senyszyn claimed that she had quickly become critical of party's policies and openly spoken about it.[4][5] She joined the Solidarność, an opposition movement and labour union, in 1980, of which she continued to be a member until 1995.[3] She said she left the union as its members challenged the election of Aleksander Kwaśniewski for President of Poland.[4][5]

In 1998 Senyszyn was elected member of the Pomeranian Voivodeship Sejmik as a Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) candidate. Next year she joined the newly established SLD party. In 2001 she stood in the election to the Sejm listed with SLD-UP coalition and received a seat in Gdynia-Słupsk constituency.[6]

reelected in 2005[7] and 2007[8]

In 2009, Senyszyn was elected member of the European Parliament for Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie as a SLD-UP coalition candidate.[9] She sat in EP from 14 July 2009 until 30 June 2014 with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.[10]

Sejm 2019–2023[11]

In January 2025 Senyszyn announced through social media her will to stand in the upcoming presidential election.[12]

Views and stances

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Senyszyn declares herself as atheist and

PRL and PZPR

Personal life

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Senyszyn was born on 1 February 1949 in Gdynia.[11] Her father Ryszard Raulin (1915–1956)[13] was a sailor and her mother Danuta worked as a seamstress.[14][5]

Senyszyn was married to Bolesław Senyszyn, an advocate and former judge, for almost 50 years until his death in February 2025.[15][16]

References

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  1. ^ "Magia najlepszych liceów". Rzeczpospolita (in Polish). Gremi Media. 12 November 2011. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
  2. ^ "prof. dr hab. Joanna Senyszyn". archiwum.nauka-polska.pl. OPI PIB.
  3. ^ a b "Joanna Senyszyn - Wiceprzewodnicząca - Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej". sld.org.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 18 September 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
  4. ^ a b Olczyk, Eliza (1 December 2017). "Joanna Senyszyn: Z Ogórek to był pomysł paranoiczny". Rzeczpospolita (in Polish). Gremi Media. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
  5. ^ a b c Wójcik, Marcin (10 June 2019). "Joanna Senyszyn: Nie wykluczam, że jest we mnie szatan, choć wydaje mi się, że więcej we mnie kosmitki". Duży Format. Wyborcza.pl (in Polish). Wyborcza Sp. z o.o. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  6. ^ 4th Sejm archives: "Poseł Joanna Senyszyn". orka.sejm.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 3 February 2025.
  7. ^ 5th Sejm archives: "Poseł Joanna Senyszyn". orka.sejm.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 3 February 2025.
  8. ^ 6th Sejm archives: "Poseł: Joanna Senyszyn". sejm.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 3 February 2025.
  9. ^ "Elections to the European Parliament 2009". pe2009.pkw.gov.pl. National Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
  10. ^ "7th parliamentary term | Joanna SENYSZYN | MEPs | European Parliament". europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
  11. ^ a b 9th Sejm archives: "Joanna Senyszyn - Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej". sejm.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 23 January 2025.
  12. ^ Godlewska, Paulina (20 January 2025). "Niespodziewana kandydatka w wyborach. 'Polska potrzebuje prezydentki'". polsatnews.pl (in Polish). Polsat. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
  13. ^ "Cmentarze Komunalne w Gdyni". gdynia.grobonet.com (in Polish). Zarząd Cmentarzy Komunalnych w Gdyni. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  14. ^ "Biuletyn Informacji Publicznej Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej". katalog.bip.ipn.pl. IPN. Archived from the original on 19 May 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  15. ^ Panicz, Julia (11 February 2025). "Mąż Joanny Senyszyn nie żyje. Byli razem prawie 50 lat. 'Świat bez ciebie stał się gorszy'". Gazeta.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 20 February 2025.
  16. ^ "Joanna Senyszyn rzadko mówi o mężu. Stworzyli 'marynarskie małżeństwo'". Plejada. Onet (in Polish). Ringier Axel Springer Polska. 1 February 2024. Retrieved 24 January 2025.

Adrian Zandberg

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Adrian Zandberg
Portrait photograph of Adrian Zandberg from 2020
Zandberg in 2020
Co-leader of Partia Razem
Incumbent
Assumed office
27 November 2022
Serving with Aleksandra Owca[a]
Preceded byColective leadership
Member of the Sejm
Incumbent
Assumed office
12 November 2019
ConstituencyNo.19 (Warsaw I)
Personal details
Born
Adrian Tadeusz Zandberg

(1979-12-04) 4 December 1979 (age 45)
Aalborg, Denmark
CitizenshipPolish, Danish[1]
Political partyPartia Razem (since 2015)
Other political
affiliations
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw (Dr)
WebsiteCampaign website

Adrian Tadeusz Zandberg (born 4 December 1979) is a Polish left-wing politician, computer programmer, and doctor of history, who has served as member of the Sejm since 2019. He is a founding member and co-leader of Partia Razem.

Biography

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Zandberg was born on 4 December 1979 in Aalborg, Denmark,[2] where his parents had emigrated from Poland at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1980s, the family returned to Poland and settled in Warsaw.[1][3]

Education and work

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Zandberg graduated from a private high school in Warsaw in 1997.[4] He then studied law and history at the University of Warsaw, of which he completed only history graduating with a master's degree in 2002.[3][5] In 2007, he obtained a doctorate in history with a thesis titled Social Democracy and Social Movements in Germany and United Kingdom before 1914, written under the supervision of Anna Żarnowska.[6]

Zandberg is a self-taught computer programmer. In the 1980s, he learned the BASIC programming language on a ZX Spectrum computer. He began taking programming jobs during his studies, later on establishing an individual entrepreneurship.[1][3]

He worked as an academic teacher at the Faculty of Japanese Culture at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology from 2007 to 2017, and at the Higher School of Communication, Political Science and International Relations in Warsaw from 2007 to 2014.[6][7]

Political activity

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As a teenager, Zandberg contributed to the Marxist Internet Archive.[3] He also co-founded Lewica.pl, a journalistic web portal.[8]

After high school, Zadberg joined the Youth Federation of the Labour Union (FMUP). He became one of its deputy chairmans. In the 2000s, Zandberg took part and orgainised protests against war in Irak and Afganistan, proposal of tuition for state universities

In 2005, Zandberg swiftly belonged to and co-founded the Union of the Left III RP.

In 2005, he and others left the youth wing and founded the Young Socialists, seeking to create a youth political organization not affiliated with any particular party.

In the 2000 presidential election, Zandberg was involved in the campaign of Piotr Ikonowicz, leader of the PPS.

In 2015, the Young Socialists dissolved to form a political party, Partia Razem ("Together Party"), in which Zandberg became a member of the National Board, a collective leadership body.

In the 2015 parliamentary election, Zandberg was placed at the top of the party list for the Sejm in the Warsaw constituency. He represented the party in the television debate of party leaders on 20 October 2015. His performance was widely praised, with some commentators naming him the debate winner. He received 4.54% of the votes, placing seventh in his constituency. However, Razem did not surpass the nationwide 5% electoral threshold and thus did not secure any seats.

2019 European Parliament election

2019 parliamentary election

2023 parliamentary election re-elected with 3.76% of the votes in his incumbent constituency

He met with the President Adrzej Duda to discuss the issue of public health insurance and asked him to veto the changes.[9]

Political views

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Zandberg describes himself as a democratic socialist.

Bernie Sanders

He advocates for introduction of a real estate tax from a third house, aimed at cooling off real estate speculation. He opposes a loan supplement program, arguing it does not lower the expences, but increases the income of property sellers and market prices. He advocates for public housing programms based on the Vienna model, where apartments for rent are build by municipalities from a fund ... .

He supports the right to abortion on request until the twelveth week of pregnancy, making him stand against the current restrictions.

Personal life

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In late 1990s Zandberg was in a relationship with Barbara Nowacka for three years, when they were both members of the Youth Federation of Labour Union.[10][11]

Zandberg is married to Barbara Audycka-Zandberg and they have two children.[11] Audycka-Zandberg holds a doctorate in social sciences specialising in housing issues and works as an adjunct professor at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences of the University of Warsaw.[11][12] She run for the district council of Mokotów in 2018 without success.[13]

Electoral history

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Sejm

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Year Electoral list Constituency Votes received Result Ref
Total % +/−
2015 Partia Razem No. 19 (Warsaw I) 49,711 4.54 — Not elected [14]
2019 The Left[b] 140,898 10.20 +5.66 Elected [15]
2023 The Left[c] 64,435 3.76 −6.44 Elected [16]

European Parliament

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Year Electoral list Constituency Votes received Result Ref
Total % +/−
2019 Lewica Razem No. 4 (Warsaw) 17,108 1.23 — Not elected [17]

Presidential

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Year Endorsed by First round Second round Result Ref
Total % +/− Total % +/−
2025 Partia Razem TBD TBD — — #TBD ?

Notes

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  1. ^ Previously from 27 November 2022 to 24 October 2024 served along Magdalena Biejat. Since 3 December 2024 the other co-leader has been Aleksandra Owca.
  2. ^ Officialy registered as Democratic Left Alliance party list, which also included other The Left coalition parties.
  3. ^ Officialy registered as New Left party list, which also included other The Left coalition parties.

Refs

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  1. ^ a b c Subbotko, Donata (20 March 2019). "Zandberg: Półkę z 'Dziełami' Marksa stojącą za biurkiem Jacka Kuronia mam zamiar pamiętać długie lata". Wyborcza.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 3 February 2025.
  2. ^ "Adrian Zandberg - Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej". sejm.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 28 February 2025.
  3. ^ a b c d Majmurek, Jakub (4 October 2015). "Wnuki prześnionej rewolucji idą do Sejmu". Krytyka Polityczna (in Polish). Stanisław Brzozowski Association. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  4. ^ "1997 – Autorskie Liceum Ogólnokształcące nr 42 w Warszawie". nowa.alon42.waw.pl. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
  5. ^ 9th Sejm archives: "Adrian Zandberg - Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej". sejm.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  6. ^ a b "Profil - Ludzie Nauki". ludzie.nauka.gov.pl. OPI PIB. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
  7. ^ "dr Adrian Tadeusz Zandberg". archiwum.nauka-polska.pl. OPI PIB. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
  8. ^ Szczerbiak, Agata (21 October 2015). "Kim jest Adrian Zandberg?". Polityka (in Polish). Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  9. ^ "Zandberg apeluje do prezydenta o weto". TVN24 Biznes (in Polish). TVN. 11 April 2025. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  10. ^ Kącki, Marcin (7 January 2016). "Barbara Nowacka: Nie byłam zalotną panienką". Duży Format. Wyborcza.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  11. ^ a b c "Kim jest Barbara Audycka-Zandberg, żona Adriana Zandberga z partii Razem?". naTemat (in Polish). 30 November 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  12. ^ "Instytut Stosowanych Nauk Społecznych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego". isns.uw.edu.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  13. ^ "Wybory samorządowe 2018". wybory2018.pkw.gov.pl (in Polish). National Electoral Commission. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  14. ^ "PKW | Wybory do Sejmu RP i Senatu RP". parlament2015.pkw.gov.pl (in Polish). National Electoral Commission. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
  15. ^ "Sejm voting results | KOMITET WYBORCZY SOJUSZ LEWICY DEMOKRATYCZNEJ | Sejm Constituency no. 19 [Warszawa]". sejmsenat2019.pkw.gov.pl. National Electoral Commission. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
  16. ^ "ZANDBERG Adrian Tadeusz, candidate in Parliament election 2023". sejmsenat2023.pkw.gov.pl. National Electoral Commission. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
  17. ^ "Results of European Parliament Election 2019 | ZANDBERG Adrian Tadeusz | Constituency no. 4 [Warszawa]". pe2019.pkw.gov.pl. National Electoral Commission. Retrieved 11 January 2025.

Jarosław Szymczyk

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Jarosław Jakub Szymczyk (born 21 March 1970) is a Polish retired police office, who served as commander-in-chief of Police between 2016 and 2023.

Life and career

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Szymczyk was born on 21 March 1970 in Katowice,[1] and grew up in Gliwice.[2] There he attended primary school and railway technical high school, and gratuated with maturity diploma in 1990.[2]

Same year he went on for police officer candidate studies at the Higher Police School in Szczytno

From 2007 to 2008 he was Podkarpackie Voivodeship police commander in Rzeszów. Then became deputy of the Silesian Voivodeship police commander in Katowice.[3]

In February 2012 he became Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship police commander.[4]

In February 2015 he became Silesian Voivodeship police commander.[5]

On 13 April 2016 he was appointed commander-in-chief of Police by Prime Minister Beata Szydło.[6]

Grenade launcher incident

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In the morning of 14 December 2022 an exploasion occured at the National Police Headquarters in the room adjacent to the chief's cabinet.

References

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  1. ^ "Nominacje generalskie w Policji". policja.pl (in Polish). 21 July 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  2. ^ a b "Pierwszy policjant w Polsce spaceruje z nami po rodzinnych Gliwicach". Nowiny Gliwickie (in Polish). 4 November 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  3. ^ "Jarosław Szymczyk, były podkarpacki szef policji został komendantem głównym [WIDEO]". Rzeszów. Wyborcza.pl (in Polish). Wyborcza Sp. z o.o. 13 April 2016. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
  4. ^ Walczak, Grzegorz (7 August 2012). "MSW o świętokrzyskiej policji: 'Wciąż rozdajecie dodatki'". Kielce. Wyborcza.pl (in Polish). Wyborcza Sp. z o.o. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
  5. ^ Pietraszewski, Marcin (13 April 2016). "Śląski generał jedzie do stolicy. Jarosław Szymczyk komendantem głównym policji". Katowice. Wyborcza.pl (in Polish). Wyborcza Sp. z o.o. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
  6. ^ "Jarosław Szymczyk nowym komendantem głównym policji. Błaszczak: Gwarantuje energię we wprowadzaniu dobrej zmiany". Wyborcza.pl (in Polish). Wyborcza Sp. z o.o. 13 April 2016. Retrieved 13 January 2025.

Maciej Konieczny

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Maciej Konieczny
Portrait photograph of Maciej Konieczny from 2020.
Konieczny in 2020
Member of the Sejm
Incumbent
Assumed office
12 November 2019
Constituency31 (Katowice)
Personal details
Born (1980-10-14) 14 October 1980 (age 44)
Gliwice, Poland
Political partyTogether Party
Spouse
Urszula Łobodzińska
​
(m. 2023)​
EducationUniversity of Silesia in Katowice (Mgr)

Maciej Konieczny ([ˈmat͡siɛj ˈkɔniɛt͡sznɨ] ⓘ; born 14 October 1980) is a Polish politician, founding member of the leftist Partia Razem (Together Party), serving as a member of the Sejm since 2019.

Early life

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Konieczny was born on 14 October in Gliwice[1] and grew up in Łabędy district.[2] His mother was a Polish teacher and his father worked at a mine as an electrical engineer.[2]

In 2022, Konieczny described his childhood as being "far from ideal", as his father was heavily drinking at the time and his parents divorced when he was in primary school. He recalls taking up alcohol adiction and suffering from depression during his late high school and university years. There he received treatment and remains sober, but still acknowledges being alcoholic. At that time he belong to football hooligan groups and was engaged with their nationalist ideas.[2][3]

In 2005 graduated with master's degree in cultural studies from the University of Silesia in Katowice.[1]

internship at the Silesian Dance Theatre in Bytom.

In early adulthooh he took up odd jobs at first in Silesia, then moved abroad to Wales where he worked at the Cardiff Airport. In 2008 he came back to Poland and resided in Warsaw.

Political activity

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At the end of university Konieczny joined the Polish division of the ATTAC, an alter-globalist organisation advocating for Tobin tax, and represented the country at the ATTAC Europe.[4] Then he belong to the Young Socialists

In 2014 European Parliament election he run as the Green Party's candidate from Warsaw constituency, from the last position on the party list.

In 2015 along with other Young Socialists activists he was a founding member of the Together Party. Same year in October he stood in the elections to the Sejm from the first place on the party list in Gdynia constituency. Together Party however failed to reach the five-percent national electoral treshold, thus no candidate of the party received a seat.

Personal life

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In 2023, Konieczny married Urszula Łobodzińska, who is a lawyer and works as a judicial assistant. She is also a labour activist and serves as deputy chair of the Labour Union of Judicial Assistants "Ad Rem".

Electoral history

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Sejm
Year Electoral list Constituency Votes received Result Ref
Total % +/−
2015 Razem No. 26 (Gdynia) 8,694 1.86 — Not
elected 		[5]
2019 Lewica No. 31 (Katowice) 22,262 4.74 +2.88 Elected [6]
2023 Lewica No. 31 (Katowice) 17,901 3.40 −1.34 Elected [7]
European Parliament
Year Electoral list Constituency Votes received Result Ref
Total %

References

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  1. ^ a b "Maciej Konieczny - Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej". sejm.gov.pl. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  2. ^ a b c Wójcik, Marcin (17 January 2022). "Maciej Konieczny, poseł Razem: Piłem na umór, byłem kibolem i naziolem, robiłem na taśmie w Walii i darmowych stażach". Duży Format. Gazeta Wyborcza (in Polish). Wyborcza. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
  3. ^ Witwicki, Piotr (6 December 2019). "Maciej Konieczny: W Skandynawii Razem znalazłoby się trochę na lewo od centrum". Plus Minus. Rzeczpospolita (in Polish). Gremi Media. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  4. ^ Majmurek, Jakub (4 October 2015). "Wnuki prześnionej rewolucji idą do Sejmu". Krytyka Polityczna (in Polish). Stanisław Brzozowski Association. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  5. ^ "PKW | Wybory do Sejmu RP i Senatu RP". parlament2015.pkw.gov.pl (in Polish). National Electoral Commission. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  6. ^ "Sejm voting results | KOMITET WYBORCZY SOJUSZ LEWICY DEMOKRATYCZNEJ | Sejm Constituency no. 31 [Katowice]". sejmsenat2019.pkw.gov.pl. National Electoral Commission. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  7. ^ "KONIECZNY Maciej, candidate in Parliament election 2023". sejmsenat2023.pkw.gov.pl. National Electoral Commission. Retrieved 7 December 2024.

Szymon Niemiec

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Szymon Niemiec
Portrait photograph of Szymon Niemiec.
Niemiec in 2024
Born (1977-10-05) 5 October 1977 (age 47)
Warsaw, Poland
EducationSWPS University
Occupations
  • Psychologist
  • psychoterapist
  • life coach
  • activist
  • priest

Szymon Niemiec (born 5 October 1977) is a Polish psychologist and LGBT activist. He is one of the original founders of the Equality Parade in Warsaw, the first pride parade in Poland.

Niemiec has been also active as a priest of the unregistered Christian community.

Biography

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Szymon Niemiec was born on 5 October 1977 in Warsaw, Poland.[1]

Working as a reporter for the Puls Stolicy, Szymon Niemiec responded on 11 July 1998 to a happening at the site of Sigismund's Column, Old Town, which would become one of the first public manifestations in support of LGBT rights in Poland. Niemiec recalls spontaneously joining the protesters, who with covered faces held signs with names of their professions.

In the early 2000s, a progressive christian congregation, that would be welcoming to LGBTQ people, was founded in Warsaw by a Latvian pastor Ernest Ivanovs of the Free Reformed Church, who led the community until his departure in 2005. Szymon Niemiec, who was a member of the congregation, became its leader and a deacon afterwards. [After Ivanovs departure in 2005, Niemiec became a leader and a deacon of the Church.][2]


In 2012, he was ordained a bishop by Terry Flynn of the United Ecumenical Catholic Church in Portsmouth, England.[3]

Publications

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References

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  1. ^ "Szymon Niemiec | Profile". LGBTQ Religious Archives Network. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
  2. ^ Podgórska, Joanna (21 April 2007). "Słowa kamienie". Polityka (in Polish). No. 16.2007 (2601). p. 40. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
  3. ^ Kośmiński, Paweł (9 September 2012). "Polak, biskup-homoseksualista? Tak, święcenia przyjął w Anglii". Gazeta Wyborcza (in Polish). Retrieved 24 September 2024.

Gazeta Wyborcza

Grzegorz Ciechowski

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Grzegorz Ciechowski
Passport photo
Passport photo
Background information
Born(1957-08-29)29 August 1957
Tczew, Poland
Died22 December 2001(2001-12-22) (aged 44)
Warsaw
Genres
Occupation(s)Musician, vocalist, poet, songwriter
Instrument(s)Keyboards, flute
Formerly ofRepublika
WebsiteOfficial website

Biography

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Early life and education

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Grzegorz Zbigniew Ciechowski was born on 29 August 1957 in Tczew. His father Zbigniew Ciechowski (1929–1993) worked at the local diary co-op, later becoming its chairman. His mother Helena née Omernik (born 1930) was a hairdresser untill the couple married in 1953. Grzegorz had two sisters: Aleksandra (born 1954) and Małgorzata (born 1966).[1]

Between 1964 and 1972 Grzegorz Ciechowski attended the Primary School No. 3 in Tczew.[2] His teachers remember him as beeing diligent and keen on literature and writing, friendly and active in school community.[3] Untill the third grade, for two years Ciechowski learned piano at a music school and also took private lessons from a local organist.[4]

In 1972 he went on to the Maria Skłodowska-Curie High School in the town, where he took a general education course.[5] From the second year he continued his musical education and learned fluet.[6] In autumn 1974, at the begining of the third grade he joined a local church band, Juventus.[7] During his high school years he befriended a seven years older Jacek Kiliński,[8] who later introduced Ciechowski to his band Nocny pociąg ('Nighttime train'). Ciechowski's final concert with the group was in March 1981.[9]

University and Republika

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In autumn 1976 he left his hometown to study Polish philology at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.

  • Jazz Formation
  • Res Publica, Jan Castor (Wiesław Ruciński)
  • 1980 - becomes a lider of Republika[10]
  • 1986 - breakup of Republika and begining of solo career as Obywatel G.C.[11]
  • 1990 - Republika reunited at the Polish Song Festival in Opole[12]
  • death on 22 December 2001[13]

References

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  1. ^ Kulas 2007, pp. 12–14.
  2. ^ Kulas 2007, p. 20.
  3. ^ Kulas 2007, pp. 22–26.
  4. ^ Kulas 2007, p. 27.
  5. ^ Kulas 2007, pp. 31, 32.
  6. ^ Kulas 2007, p. 36.
  7. ^ Kulas 2007, pp. 48, 49.
  8. ^ Kulas 2007, p. 47.
  9. ^ Kulas 2007, p. 50.
  10. ^ Kulas 2007, p. 65.
  11. ^ Kulas 2007, pp. 67, 69.
  12. ^ Kulas 2007, p. 70.
  13. ^ Kulas 2007, p. 73.

Bibliography

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  • Kulas, Jan (2007). "II. Zarys biografii Grzegorza Ciechowskiego". Grzegorz Ciechowski 1957–2001. Wybitny artysta rodem z Tczewa (in Polish). Pelplin: Wydawnictwo "Bernardinum". ISBN 9788373805019.
  • Gawłowska, Sylwia (2021). Grzegorz Ciechowski – oblicza autorskości (in Polish) (1st ed.). Poznań: Instytut Kultury Popularnej. ISBN 9788396045409.

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