Marek Borowski

Marek Stefan Borowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈmarɛk bɔˈrɔfskʲi]; born 4 January 1946 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish left-wing politician. He led the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) for a time and was Speaker of the Sejm (the lower, more powerful, house of Poland's parliament) from 2001 to 2004.[1]

Marek Stefan Borowski
6th Marshal of the Sejm
In office
19 October 2001 – 20 August 2004
PresidentAleksander Kwaśniewski
Prime MinisterJerzy Buzek
Leszek Miller
DeputyAndrzej Lepper (SRP)
Tomasz Nałęcz (UP)
Janusz Wojciechowski (PSL)
Donald Tusk (PO)
Preceded byMaciej Płażyński
Succeeded byJózef Oleksy
Deputy Prime Minister of Poland
In office
26 October 1993 – 8 February 1994
PresidentLech Wałęsa
Prime MinisterWaldemar Pawlak
Preceded byHenryk Goryszewski
Paweł Łączkowski
Succeeded byRoman Jagieliński
Grzegorz Kołodko
Aleksander Łuczak
Minister of Finance
In office
26 October 1993 – 8 February 1994
PresidentLech Wałęsa
Prime MinisterWaldemar Pawlak
Preceded byJerzy Osiatyński
Succeeded byGrzegorz Kołodko
Personal details
Born (1946-01-04) 4 January 1946
Warsaw, Poland
Political partyDemocratic Left Alliance, Social Democratic Party of Poland
Spouse(s)Halina Borowska
ProfessionEconomist

Biography

He was born to a Polish-Jewish family, as a son of Janina and Wiktor Borowski(born as Aron Berman).

He was Minister of Finance of Poland from 1993 to 1994.[2] From 2004 to January 2009 he was the leader and chairman, of a new Polish left-wing party called Social Democracy of Poland (SdPl), formed from a break-away group of SLD. He was a candidate in the presidential elections in 2005, but he got fourth place, with 10%.

Marek Borowski is an MP from Piła, but in the September 2005 parliamentary elections he contested a seat in Warsaw. Borowski was the Social Democratic presidential candidate in the 2005 Polish presidential elections. Just as his party received a massive defeat in the September 2005 Parliamentary elections, Borowski lost the presidential elections, receiving 10% of the vote and fourth place, despite Aleksander Kwaśniewski's support following the withdrawal of Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz.

He most recently ran (unsuccessfully) for the office of mayor of Warsaw in the 2010 local elections.

See also

References

[3]

  1. Archived July 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Ministrowie finansów - Ministerstwo Finansów - Portal Gov.pl".
  3. Archived July 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
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