Marek Balicki

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Marek Balicki (2015)

Marek Zbigniew Balicki (born September 29, 1953 in Słupsk ) is a Polish politician , member of the Sejm in the I., II. And VI . Electoral term, senator in the fifth electoral term, co-founder of Socjaldemokracja Polska (Social Democracy of Poland - SdPl) and former health minister in the Leszek Miller and Marek Belka cabinets .

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He was trained as a psychiatrist and anesthetist and graduated from the Medical Academy in Gdansk in 1978 .

In the 1980s he was in the opposition union Solidarność and was, among other things, a member of the strike committee for the nationwide occupation of health facilities, a member of the board of the Gdansk Region and a delegate to the first national delegates' meeting in Gdansk. During the state of war (1981 to 1983) he was interned for about two weeks. After his release he worked in the opposition underground and was among other things co-founder and editor of the newspaper "Robotnik Lębork". He was arrested in April 1983 and released on a general amnesty in July of the same year .

After 1989 he was a member of the Ruch Obywatelski Akcja Demokratyczna (Citizens' Movement Democratic Action - ROAD), then a member of the Unia Demokratyczna (Democratic Union - UD) and Unia Wolności (Freedom Union - UW). In May 1990 he was elected to the Ząbki City Council, from 1991 to 1997 he was a member of the Sejm in the 1st and 2nd electoral terms. In the government of Hanna Suchocka , he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Health from 1992 to 1993 and headed the inter-ministerial commission for reform of social security and the health system, which worked out one of several projects to reform the financing of the health system that were then in competition with one another.

In 1997 he left the UW. He decided not to run for a seat in parliament and returned to his job as a doctor and department head at the Ząbki hospital. From 1998 to 2001 he was an advisor to President Aleksander Kwaśniewski . In December 1999 he became director of the Bielany Hospital in Warsaw .

In the 2001 parliamentary elections, he was elected to the Senate with 246 thousand votes from the joint list of Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej (Federation of Democratic Left - SLD) and Unia Pracy (Labor Union - UP) (he was proposed as a non-party candidate by the UP) . In 2002 the SLD and the UP supported his candidacy for the post of President of the City of Warsaw. He came into the second round of the elections (where he overtook candidates such as Andrzej Olechowski ), which he lost to Lech Kaczyński . On January 17, 2003, after the resignation of Mariusz Łapiński, he became Minister of Health. For his part, he resigned from this position on April 2 of the same year when Aleksander Nauman , a former employee of Mariusz Łapiński, was appointed head of the Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia (National Health Fund) against his will .

In March 2004 he was one of the co-founders of the SdPl. On July 15, 2004, he accepted Marek Belka's offer to take over the Ministry of Health in Marek Belka's second government (replacing Marian Czakański ). In 2005 he did not run for parliamentary elections.

In the local elections in 2006 he became a member of the Sejmik of the Masovian Voivodeship . He was deputy chairman of this Sejmik for a year.

In the parliamentary elections in 2007 he was elected to the Sejm for the constituency Warsaw II with 19,034 votes on the list of Lewica i Demokraci (Left and Democrats - LiD). He is a member of the Sejm Commissions for National and Ethnic Minorities and was deputy chairman of the Commission for Health Policy until July 10, 2008.

On April 22, 2008 he became a member of the newly founded SdPl-Nowa Lewica parliamentary group. At the end of September 2008 he resigned from the SdPl, but remained in the parliamentary group.

Balicki is a politician of the left, even in the first half of the 1990s, when he was a member of the UW, he represented the left wing of this party. He is a proponent of the liberalization of abortion law . At the beginning of the 1990s, he was involved in collecting signatures for holding a referendum on the criminality of abortion. He also advocates the recognition of same-sex partnerships under family law.

He is the director of the Wola Hospital in Warsaw and is active in various social and professional organizations. He is the chairman of the Warsaw Society for Medical Aid and Care for the Mentally and Nervously Ill. He has worked for the Polish Psychiatric Society for many years.

He is married to Bożena Balicka and has two children: Andrzej and Ewa.

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Individual evidence

  1. Marek Balicki in Słownik Niezależni dla kultury 1976-89
  2. Catalog of the IPN  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: dead link / katalog.bip.ipn.gov.pl  
  3. ^ Homepage of Panstwowa Komisja Wyborcza (State Election Commission) for the 2002 elections
  4. Filar lewicy porzucił swą partię , onet.pl dated September 29, 2008 ( Memento of the original dated October 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wiadomosci.onet.pl