Barbara Nowacka
Barbara Anna Nowacka (born May 10, 1975 in Warsaw ) is a Polish politician and feminist , and was co-chair of the left-wing liberal party Twój Ruch from 2015 to 2017 .
Career
Nowacka comes from a family with socialist-democratic traditions. Both grandfathers were members of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS) before the outbreak of World War II . Her father is Jerzy Nowacki , Rector of the Polish-Japanese College of Computer Technology. Her mother Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka was a member of the League of Democratic Left (SLD) in the Sejm ; she was killed on April 10, 2010 in a plane crash near Smolensk .
Nowacka studied at the Polish-Japanese University of Computer Technology in Warsaw and at the Administration Faculty of the University of Warsaw . Since 1993 she has worked on the Federation of Women’s Family Planning Trust’s helpline. Since 1997 she was a member and since 2000 deputy chairwoman of the youth organization of Unia Pracy (Labor Union) and 2001-2006 member of this party. She took part in pacifist street demonstrations against the Iraq war and the Afghan war . In 2005 she co-founded the Young Socialist Movement.
After her mother's death, she founded the Izabela Jaruga Nowacka Foundation, which awards the Okulary Równości (German: Equal Opportunity Glasses ) prize every year .
Nowacka campaigns for the right to abortion , in vitro fertilization and the rights of sexual minorities . She and her life partner raise a son and a daughter.
In the 2014 European elections , Nowacka ran unsuccessfully for the Europa Plus initiative for the European Parliament . In the same year she joined the left-liberal party Twój Ruch (Your Movement), led by Janusz Palikot . In 2015 she was appointed co-chair.
In 2015, Barbara Nowacka took over the leadership of the newly founded United Left , which narrowly missed entry with 7.55% in the parliamentary elections in October 2015 .
After the alliance was discontinued due to the displeasure of some big parties, Nowacka and other (ex) members of left parties presented the non-partisan platform Inicjatywa Polska (Initiative Poland) at the end of February 2016 in order to continue the idea of cooperation between left-wing and liberal groups.
Foreign Policy ranked Nowacka together with Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk among the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” in 2016 for this commitment.
At the beginning of June 2017, she announced that she would be leaving the Twój Ruch party in order to become more involved in women's rights in Poland in the future. In September 2018 she joined the citizen coalition.
In the parliamentary elections on October 13, 2019, she was elected Sejm MP for the 9th legislative period in the constituency of Gdynia with 88,833 votes.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) 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.
- ↑ http://www.gala.pl/wywiady-i-sylwetki/tylko-u-nas-barbara-nowacka-quotwaleczna-jestemquot-18810?strona=3
- ↑ http://www.tvn24.pl/wiadomosci-z-kraju,3/barbara-nowacka-wspolprzewodniczaca-twojego-ruchu,553192.html
- ↑ http://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/barbara-nowacka-wspolprzewodniczaca-twojego-ruchu/qg81ez
- ↑ Left try Florian Kellermann's new beginning in: Deutschlandfunk from March 2, 2016
- ↑ Foreign Policy: Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk and Barbara Nowacka. In: Foreign Policy Global Thinkers 2016. Retrieved December 12, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nowacka, Barbara |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nowacka, Barbara Anna (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish politician and feminist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |