Jolanta Fedak

Jolanta Fedak (undated)

Jolanta Fedak (born September 21, 1960 in Żary ; † December 31, 2020 ) was a Polish politician . From 2007 to 2011 she was Minister for Labor and Social Policy in Donald Tusk's government and from 2005 to 2012 she was Deputy Chairwoman of the PSL .

Jolanta Fedak studied political science at the University of Wroclaw . Since the beginning of the 1990s she was a member of the PSL and was a permanent employee of the PSL in Zielona Góra . After the reform of the self-government in 1999, she was appointed Vice-Marshal of the newly formed Lubusz Voivodeship . During the reign of Prime Minister Leszek Miller , she was Vice Voivode of the Lubusz Voivodeship from November 2001 to March 2003. In 2006 she was mayoral candidate of the PSL in Zielona Góra and after losing the election was appointed to the board of the Lubusz Voivodeship, which after the local elections from a coalition of PO , PiSand PSL passed. In the 2007 parliamentary elections , she was a candidate for the Polish Senate from the PSL in Zielona Góra . She received 45,719 votes but was not elected. On November 16, 2007, she was sworn in as the Donald Tusk government's new labor and social affairs minister. In the 2011 parliamentary elections , she ran unsuccessfully for the Sejm and then left the government. She was a member of the Polish Sejm from 2019 until her death in 2020. She died after suffering from cancer that had existed for several years.

Web links

• Jolanta Fedak. In: Sejm.gov.-pl . (Polish). 
• Artur Łukasiewicz: Zmarła Jolanta Fedak, posłanka PSL, była minister pracy. In: wyborcza.pl . December 31, 2020 (Polish).