Marek Borowski

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Marek Borowski

Marek Stefan Borowski (born January 4, 1946 in Warsaw ) is a Polish politician , Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister from 1993 to 1994, Sejm Marshal from 2001 to 2004 and a member of the Sejm in the I., II., III., IV. and VI . Electoral term.

He studied foreign trade at the Warsaw School of Commerce with a focus on international economic relations. From 1991 he sat in the Sejm , he was a member of the Committee for Economic Policy, Budget and Finance. From 1993 to 1994 he was Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and from 1996 to 2001 he was Vice President of the Sejm. In 2001 he was elected as the successor to Maciej Płażyński as the 5th Sejm Marshal .

He belonged to the following parties: from 1967 to 1968 and from 1975 to 1990 the PVAP (without party office). In 1989 he joined the July 8th Movement (reform group in the PVAP). In 1990 he became a member of the post-communist successor party Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland (SdRP). On March 26, 2004 he was one of the founders of the Social Democracy of Poland (SDPL), a newly formed left-wing party.

At a special SDPL party conference, party members chose Marek Borowski as their candidate for president, because in October 2005 the successor to Social Democrat Aleksander Kwaśniewski was elected, who was not allowed to run again after two terms in office. Marek Borowski received only 10.3 percent of the votes in the first ballot (October 9th) and came in fourth. Borowski's electoral motto was: “Prawy Czlowiek Lewicy”, that is, a “right-wing man of the left”.

He ran for the regional elections in November 2006 as Lord Mayor of Warsaw. He was supported by all left parties. In the second ballot, he stood up for the conservative-liberal candidate of the Platforma Obywatelska (PO), Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz , who took office in December 2006 after her election.

In the parliamentary elections in 2007 he was re-confirmed as a member of the Sejm with 75,493 votes for the constituency of Warsaw I on the list of Lewica i Demokraci (Left and Democrats - LiD). In 2008 he became chairman of the newly founded SdPl-Nowa Lewica parliamentary group.

Borowski has been a member of the Senate of the Republic of Poland since 2011 .

Individual evidence

  1. Borowski Marek Stefan - Encyklopedia PWN - źródło wiarygodnej i rzetelnej wiedzy. Retrieved March 16, 2019 (Polish).

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