Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz

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Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz

Hanna Beata Gronkiewicz-Waltz (born November 4, 1952 in Warsaw ) is a Polish lawyer , professor of law and politician . Between 2006 and 2018 she was city president ( mayor ) of Warsaw.

Life and accomplishments

Gronkiewicz-Waltz studied law at the University of Warsaw . She received her doctorate there in 1981 and completed her habilitation in 1993. Since 1994, Gronkiewicz-Waltz has been an associate professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Warsaw. After the political change in Poland, she was chairman of the Polish central bank Narodowy Bank Polski from 1992 to 2000 ; from 2001 to 2004 she was Vice-President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development .

Political career

Gronkiewicz-Waltz became politically active for the first time in 1980 in the independent Solidarność union . As a non-party candidate, she started in the Polish presidential elections in 1995 , where she was supported by the Stronnictwo Ludowo-Chrześcijańskie (Christian People's Party), Partia Konserwatywna (Conservative Party), the Koalicja Konserwatywna (Conservative Coalition) and other Catholic-Conservative parties and some election forecasts predicted double-digit percentages. However, she received only 2.76% of the vote, which was partly due to a negative campaign by Radio Maryja (among other things, it was suggested that Gronkiewicz-Waltz was of Jewish origin). In 2005 she finally joined the Platforma Obywatelska (Civic Platform), whose top candidate for the office of Mayor of Warsaw she was in the local elections in 2006. On November 26, 2006 Gronkiewicz-Waltz won the runoff election with 53.18% of the vote against the candidate of the PiS , Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz . In the first round she was 4 percentage points behind Marcinkiewicz with 34.47%. She received support from Marek Borowski , the joint candidate of the left, who had landed in third place in the first round.

Removal and reinstatement in office

Gronkiewicz-Waltz during the Schuman Parade 2007

A few weeks after her inauguration on December 2, 2006, Gronkiewicz-Waltz was involved in an affair that could have cost her the office. According to the law, the mayors of Polish cities are required to submit a statement of their financial circumstances within 30 days of being sworn in. This may also affect their spouse, but the deadline here is 30 days after the election day. Gronkiewicz-Waltz filed the declarations on January 2, 2007 for herself and her husband, a Warsaw businessman. On January 20, 2007, the daily Dziennik reported that her husband's statement was two days late. Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński from the Law and Justice Party declared Gronkiewicz-Waltz's office to be expired with retroactive effect from December 28, 2006 (the day on which her husband's declaration of assets should have been presented) and announced new elections.

Gronkiewicz-Waltz's Civic Platform party stated that the Prime Minister did not have the authority to make this decision and that the case would have to be examined by a court. Polish constitutional experts commented that Gronkiewicz-Waltz had followed the meaning, if not the wording of the law, by filing both statements on the same day. In addition, the existence of two different deadlines represents an unconstitutional legal trap. In the meantime, the citizens' platform announced that it would nominate Gronkiewicz-Waltz again if the elections were repeated. On March 6, the voivodeship of the Masovian Voivodeship declared the mayor deposed.

On March 13, 2007, the Polish Constitutional Court declared Gronkiewicz's dismissal unconstitutional. As the court emphasized, the law on non-observance of deadlines in tax and asset declarations is contrary to the European principle of the proportionality of wrong committed to the penalty imposed.

Re-election in 2010 and 2014

In the Polish local elections on November 21, 2010 , she was re-elected in the first round with 53.67% of the vote. In 2013, a referendum on the premature dismissal of Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz failed due to the low turnout. During the regular self-government elections in 2014 , she received 47.2% of the vote in the first ballot. She won the runoff election against Jacek Sasin ( PiS ) with 58.64 percent. As a result of the Warsaw reprivatisation affair , it was no longer set up for the local elections in 2018. Rafał Trzaskowski (also Platforma Obywatelska) was elected as her successor in office as city president on the occasion of the city ​​president election in 2018 .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Państwowa komisja wyborcza, Wybory samorządowe 2010 - miasto st. Warsaw , December 19, 2010
  2. ^ Gazeta Wyborcza, Prezydent Warszawy wygrała , October 14, 2013
  3. ↑ Oficjalnie: Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz i Jacek Sasin w drugiej Turze wyborów w Stolicy. In: TVP Info . November 19, 2014, accessed June 29, 2017 (Polish).
  4. ↑ Oficjalne wyniki wyborów w Warszawie. Gronkiewicz-Waltz triumfuje. In: dziennik.pl. December 1, 2014, accessed June 29, 2017 (Polish).
  5. ↑ European Banker of the Year ( Memento of the original dated November 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. in: Maleki Group , accessed December 7, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.malekigroup.com
personal data
SURNAME Gronkiewicz-Waltz, Hanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gronkiewicz-Waltz, Hanna Beata (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish lawyer and politician, Mayor of Warsaw
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw