Andrzej Celiński

Andrzej Celiński

Andrzej Bohdan Celiński (born February 26, 1950 in Warsaw ) is a Polish politician , senator in the 1st and 2nd electoral terms and a member of the Sejm in the II., IV. And VI . Electoral term, former minister of culture and activist of the democratic opposition.

Training and oppositional activity

He attended the VI. General education Lyceum Tadeusz Rejtan in Warsaw and graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Warsaw . As an instructor for scouts, he worked closely with Antoni Macierewicz and Piotr Naimski . He was a member of Komitet Obrony Robotników (Committee for the Defense of Workers KOR) and the Solidarność trade union . During the state of war from 1981 to 1983 he was interned from December 13, 1981 to December 7, 1982.

Political activity during the Third Republic

From 1989 to 1990 he was a member of the “Solidarność” citizens' committee and took part in the deliberations of the round table . From 1989 to 1993 he was a senator in the first and second electoral periods and was first associated with the Obywatelski Klub Parlamentarny (parliamentary civic parliamentary group) and later with the Unia Demokratyczna (Democratic Union - UD). From 1993 to 1994 he was Vice Chairman of the UD. From the list of this party (and later the Unia Wolności (Freedom Union - UW)) he was elected to the Sejm of the second electoral term.

In 1999 he joined the Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej (Federation of Democratic Left - SLD), of which he later became deputy chairman. He was elected to the Sejm in the 2001 parliamentary elections for the Warsaw II constituency via the SLD's list (fourth electoral period). From October 19, 2001 to July 6, 2002 he was Minister of Culture in the Leszek Miller cabinet . In 2004 and 2005 he sat for the SLD in the investigation committee to investigate the Orlen affair .

In March 2004 he left the SLD (with Marek Borowski, among others ) and was a co-founder of the new Socjaldemokracja Polska party (Social Democracy in Poland - SdPl). In 2005 he ran unsuccessfully for a member of the Sejm on the list of the SdPl. In the local elections in 2006 he was elected to the Sejmik of the Masovian Voivodeship . In the parliamentary elections in 2007 he was re-elected to the Sejm for the constituency of Katowice with 20,338 votes on the list of Lewica i Demokraci (Left and Democrats - LiD). He is a member of the Sejm commission for culture and media, until October 2008 he was deputy chairman of the commission for education, science and youth.

On April 22, 2008 he became a member of the newly founded SdPl-Nowa Lewica parliamentary group. At the beginning of September he left the SdPl, but remained in the parliamentary group. From 2012 to 2015 he was chairman of the Partia Demokratyczna .

Awards

On September 23, 2006, President Lech Kaczyński awarded him the Commander's Cross of the Polonia Restituta Order. He gave this award back in October 2007, however, as he protested against the naming of his 88-year-old mother by the police as a witness for interrogation in the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (Institute for National Remembrance - IPN).

Web links

• Andrzej Celiński's side as a member of the Sejm
• Andrzej Celiński's private homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andrzej Celiński zwrócił Krzyż Komandorski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski , portal gazeta.pl of October 12, 2007 ( memento of the original of December 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.