Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz ( ) (born September 13, 1950 in Warsaw ) is a Polish politician , lawyer and former Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland .
Cimoszewicz was Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Justice and Attorney General (October 26, 1993 to March 1, 1995), Deputy Sejm Marshal (March 3, 1995 to February 7, 1996), Prime Minister (February 7, 1996 to October 31, 1997), Chairman of the Committee for European integration (October 15, 1996 to October 31, 1997), Foreign Minister (October 19, 2001 to January 4, 2005) and the Sejm Marshal (January 5, 2005 to October 18, 2005). From 1989 to 2005 he was also a member of the Sejm and from 2007 to 2015 a member of the Senate . Since May 2015 Cimoszewicz has been committed to the Agency for the Modernization of Ukraine (AMU) as head of the anti-corruption working group.
education
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz is a graduate of the XIX. General Education Lyceum in Warsaw and the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw (1972). In 1978 he earned the title of Dr. jur. and specialized in international law . From 1972 to 1985 he worked first as an assistant and then as an adjunct at the Institute for International Law at the University of Warsaw. From 1980 to 1981 he was a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University in New York .
Political activity in the People's Republic
Cimoszewicz began his political career in the People's Republic as a functionary in various youth organizations. Among other things, he was a member of the Socialist Youth Association (Związek Młodzieży Socjalistycznej) from 1968 to 1973 and he was elected chairman of the Polish Student Union at the University of Warsaw in 1972. From 1971 until its self-dissolution in January 1990, he belonged to the Polish United Workers' Party ( Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza , PZPR). During his work at the university, he was secretary of the party's university commission. In 1985 he retired from politics and moved to Kalinówka Kościelna in today's Podlaskie Voivodeship , where he took care of his in-laws' farm.
He returned to politics after the changes brought about by the round table and became a member of the PZPR in the Sejm in 1989 and 1990 .
Political activity in the Third Republic
In 1990 he ran for the presidential election and achieved fourth place with 9.21% of the validly cast votes. From 1991 to 1993 he was chairman of the SLD election committee .
From 1995 to 1997 he led a social democratic government as prime minister . From 2001 to 2005 he was Foreign Minister in the Leszek Miller and Marek Belka government . On January 5, 2005, he was elected President of Parliament ( Sejm Marshal ) by the Sejm . He replaced Józef Oleksy . His successor as Foreign Minister was his deputy Adam Daniel Rotfeld .
Cimoszewicz was the SLD candidate in the state presidential elections on October 9, 2005 and, according to opinion polls, was at times the most promising candidate for the highest office in the state. However, the negative campaign in the mass media, based on allegations of fraud by his former assistant Anna Jarucka, caused public opinion polls to collapse. Then Cimoszewicz withdrew his candidacy on September 14th in this context. However, the documents that were supposed to incriminate Cimoszewicz turned out to be forged with the help of a copier , with an alleged signature of Cimoszewicz being a facsimile . Jarucka was sentenced in May 2010 to one and a half years imprisonment on probation for false testimony , the suppression of documents and forgery .
In the parliamentary elections on October 21, 2007, he was elected to the Senate as one of three representatives of the Białystok constituency and the only independent alongside 60 PO and 39 PiS senators . In the 2011 elections he defended his position successfully.
Honors
Cimoszewicz is a recipient of the Order of Merit from France and Greece . He was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from two American universities.
Footnotes
- ↑ AMU team starts program work , accessed on April 7, 2017.
- ↑ Cimoszewicz Włodzimierz , short biography on onet.pl (in Polish)
- ↑ Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz , short biography on wprost .pl (in Polish)
- ↑ TNS OBOP : Preferencje prezydenckie na trzy miesiące przed wyborami. (No longer available online.) In: tnsglobal.pl. July 10, 2005, formerly in the original ; accessed on January 7, 2013 (Polish): “Liderem rankingu prezydenckiego jest Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz […] Poparcie dla niego zadeklarowało 31% ogółu osób deklarujacych zamiar głosowania o sprecyzowanych preferencjach. [...] Lech Kaczynski 16, Andrzej Lepper 15, Zbigniew Religa 14, Donald Tusk 8 "
- ↑ PAP: Cimoszewicz: wycofuję się z kandydowania! (Not available online.) In: wp.pl . September 14, 2005, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 7, 2013 (Polish). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ asl: Anna Jarucka skazana. In: tvp.info . May 31, 2010, accessed January 6, 2013 (Polish).
Web links
- Entry on Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
Mikołaj Kozakiewicz | Wiesław Chrzanowski | Józef Oleksy | Józef Zych | Maciej Płażyński | Marek Borowski | Józef Oleksy | Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz | Marek Jurek | Ludwik Dorn | Bronisław Komorowski | Grzegorz Schetyna | Ewa Kopacz | Radosław Sikorski | Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska | Marek Kuchciński | Elżbieta Witek
Waldemar Pawlak | Barbara Blida | Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz | Kazimierz Dejmek | Wiesław Kaczmarek | Witold Karczewski | Grzegorz Kołodko (from 1994) | Bogusław Liberadzki | Aleksander Łuczak | Andrzej Milczanowski | Leszek Miller | Andrzej Olechowski | Mirosław Pietrewicz | Lesław Podkański | Marek Pol | Andrzej Śmietanko | Michał Strąk | Stanisław Żelichowski | Andrzej Zieliński | Ryszard Żochowski
Retired:
Marek Borowski (1993–1994) |
Piotr Kołodziejczyk (1993–1994)
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz | Marek Belka (from 1997) | Stanisław Dobrzański | Wiesław Kaczmarek (1996 and from 1997) | Jarosław Kalinowski (from 1997) | Leszek Kubicki | Zbigniew Kuźmiuk (from 1997) | Bogusław Liberadzki | Aleksander Łuczak | Leszek Miller | Mirosław Pietrewicz | Andrzej Piłat (from 1997) | Zdzisław Podkański | Dariusz Rosati | Jerzy Wiatr | Stanisław Żelichowski | Andrzej Zieliński | Tadeusz Zieliński (from 1997)
Eliminated:
Andrzej Bączkowski (1996) |
Barbara Blida (1996) |
Jacek Buchacz (1996) |
Roman Jagieliński (1996–1997) |
Grzegorz Kołodko (1996–1997) |
Klemens Ścierski (1996) |
Ryszard Żochowski (1996–1997)
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Leszek Miller | Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz | Waldemar Dąbrowski (from 2002) | Jerzy Hausner | Zbigniew Kaniewski (from 2004) | Michał Kleiber | Grzegorz Kurczuk (from 2002) | Krystyna Łybacka | Lech Nikolski (from 2003) | Wojciech Olejniczak (from 2003) | Marek Pol | Andrzej Raczko (from 2003) | Leszek Sikorski (from 2003) | Czesław Śleziak (from 2003) | Jerzy Szmajdziński
Eliminated:
Marek Balicki (2003) |
Marek Belka (2001-2002) |
Andrzej Celiński (2001–2002) |
Sławomir Cytrycki (2003) |
Piotr Czyżewski (2003-2004) |
Danuta Huebner (2003-2004) |
Krzysztof Janik (2001-2004) |
Wiesław Kaczmarek (2001–2003) |
Jarosław Kalinowski (2001–2003) |
Grzegorz Kołodko (2002–2003) |
Mariusz Łapiński (2001–2003) |
Józef Oleksy (2004) |
Jacek Piechota (2001-2003) |
Barbara Piwnik (2001-2002) |
Adam Tański (2003) |
Stanisław Żelichowski (2001-2003)
Marek Belka | Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz | Sławomir Cytrycki | Waldemar Dąbrowski | Jerzy Hausner | Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka | Ryszard Kalisz | Michał Kleiber | Wojciech Olejniczak | Krzysztof Opawski | Krzysztof Pater | Andrzej Raczko | Wojciech Rudnicki | Marek Sadowski | Mirosław Sawicki | Jacek Socha | Jerzy Swatoń | Jerzy Szmajdziński
Marek Belka | Marek Balicki (from 2004) | Sławomir Cytrycki | Waldemar Dąbrowski | Mirosław Gronicki (from 2004) | Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka | Ryszard Kalisz | Andrzej Kalwas (from 2004) | Michał Kleiber | Krzysztof Opawski | Jacek Piechota (from 2005) | Józef Pilarczyk (from 2005) | Tomasz Podgajniak (from 2005) | Adam Daniel Rotfeld (from 2005) | Mirosław Sawicki | Jacek Socha | Jerzy Szmajdziński
Eliminated:
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (2004–2005) |
Marian Czakański (2004–2005) |
Jerzy Hausner (2004–2005) |
Wojciech Olejniczak (2004–2005) |
Krzysztof Pater (2004) |
Andrzej Raczko (2004) |
Marek Sadowski (2004) |
Jerzy Swatoń (2004-2005)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cimoszewicz, Włodzimierz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish politician, member of the Sejm |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |