Elżbieta Kruk

Elżbieta Kruk

Elżbieta Małgorzata Kruk (born November 19, 1959 in Lublin ) is a Polish politician and from 2001 to 2006 and again since 2007 a member of the Sejm in the IV., V. and VI . Electoral term, as well as former chairman of Krajowa Rada Radiofonii i Telewizji (Council for Radiophony and Television - KRRiT). Kruk has been a member of the Rada Mediów Narodowych (National Media Council - RMN) since 2016 .

Life

In 1984 she finished her studies in history at the Faculty of Humanities of the Catholic University of Lublin . During her studies she was active in the Niezależne Zrzeszenie Studentów (Independent Student Association - NZS). In 1994 she completed postgraduate courses in public administration at the University of Warsaw and in 1996 at the University of Wisconsin .

After 1984 she worked first as a history teacher at a primary school, then as an excursion leader in the Historical Museum in Lublin and as an educator in a reformatory for women. In 1989 she took up work in the Mazovian regional office of the Solidarność union . After Lech Wałęsa became president, she was employed by the Biuro Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego (National Security Bureau - BBN), which was then headed by Lech Kaczyński . At the BBN she was his assistant and office director. In 1992 she became assistant to the chairman of the Najwyższa Izba Kontroli (Supreme Audit Office - NIK) when Lech Kaczyński became the chairman of this authority. After Lech Kaczyński left the NIK, she was transferred to the Lublin delegation of the NIK in 1995.

Political activity

In 2000 and 2001 she worked again with Lech Kaczyński when he was Minister of Justice and headed his political cabinet. In the 2001 parliamentary elections , she was elected to the Sejm for the constituency of Lublin from the list of Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice - PiS). She gained another seat in the 2005 Sejm elections . She is one of the founders of the PiS and was chairman of the Lublin local committees of this party.

On January 31, 2006 she was appointed by Lech Kaczyński as a member of the Krajowa Rada Radiofonii i Telewizji (Council for Radiophony and Television KRRiT) and on February 6 as chairman of the KRRiT. In connection with this, she gave up her parliamentary mandate. On March 23, the Constitutional Court ruled on the question of the constitutional conformity of the newly enacted "media laws" by the PiS that the provision of this law, according to which the president may appoint the chairman of the KRRiT, is unconstitutional. On March 30, a ruling by the Constitutional Court was published in the Law Gazette, according to which Elżbieta Kruk was no longer the head of the authority. On May 17th, Kruk was re-elected chairwoman of the KRRiT due to a new media law.

On September 26, 2007 she resigned from this office and decided to run for the early Sejm elections 2007 , in which she was elected for the third time as a member of the PiS list for the constituency of Lublin with 53,474 votes. She was a member of the Sejm Commission for State Control and Deputy Chairwoman of the Commission for Culture and Media.

Elżbieta Kruk was elected by the Sejm majority on July 22, 2016 for a six-year term of office in the RMN Broadcasting Council.

Web links

• Elżbieta Kruk's side as a member of the Sejm
• Article about Elżbieta Kruk as chairwoman of KRRiT in the " Gazeta Wyborcza " ("Wysokie Obcasy") of May 21, 2006
• Entry on Elżbieta Kruk in the European Parliament 's database of deputies

Individual evidence

1. ^ Krzysztof Czabański, Elżbieta Kruk i Joanna Lichocka wybrani do Rady Mediów Narodowych. (No longer available online.) In: Rzeczpospolita . July 22, 2016, archived from the original on July 29, 2016 ; Retrieved July 29, 2016 (Polish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.