Krzysztof Janik
Krzysztof Jan Janik (born June 11, 1950 in Kielce ) is a Polish politician and political scientist . The former interior minister was chairman of the SLD in 2004 and from 1993 to 2005 a member of the Sejm in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th electoral terms.
He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow , and in 1979 received his doctorate from the Faculty of Political Science at the Silesian University in Katowice with the thesis "The Association of Rural Youth in the Cracow Voivodeship".
From 1971 to 1975 he worked in the Polish Rural Youth Association in Cracow (for two years he was secretary of the voivodship management of the Rural Youth Association). From 1981 to 1986 he was a member of the national board of the Union of Socialist Youth of Poland in Warsaw . From 1968 until the self-dissolution he belonged to the PZPR (Polish United Workers' Party) . Since 1986 he has been the deputy chairman of the Central Committee of the PZPR.
In January 1990 he was one of the founding members of the SdRP (Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland) . From 1997 to 1999 he held the office of general secretary of the party and in 1999 joined the SLD (Federation of Democratic Left) , of which he was general secretary until 2002. In February 2002 he was elected deputy chairman of the SLD. In 1993, 1997 and 2001 he became a Sejm member of the SLD (2001 for the constituency of Tarnów ).
He is considered an election campaign specialist. In the presidential election campaign of 1995 he was responsible for the political program in the staff of Aleksander Kwaśniewski and he headed the local election campaign of the SLD in 1998. Janik also belonged to the staff of Aleksander Kwaśniewski in the presidential election of 2000.
From 1996 to 1997 he was Deputy State Secretary in the Presidential Chancellery, his field of responsibility was local self-government. On October 19, 2001, he became Minister of the Interior and Administration in Leszek Miller's government, and resigned on January 21, 2004. On March 6, 2004 he was elected chairman of the SLD and lost this position in a vote on December 18, 2004. His successor was Józef Oleksy .
In 2005 and 2007 he ran unsuccessfully for the Sejm.
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- Short biography on wprost .pl (in Polish)
- Member of the Sejm (4th legislature) (in Polish)
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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)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Janik, Krzysztof |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Janik, Krzysztof Jan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish politician, member of the Sejm and political scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kielce |