President Aleksander Kwasniewski Preceded by Jerzy Osiatynski Succeeded by Jozef Oleksy Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak Spouse Halina Borowska | President Lech Walesa Role Marshal of the Sejm Preceded by Maciej Plazynski Name Marek Borowski Children Jakub Borowski | |
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Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek, Leszek Miller Political party Democratic Left Alliance, Social Democracy of Poland Similar People Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Jakub Berman, Aleksander Kwasniewski, Andrzej Celinski, Ludwik Dorn | ||
Marek Stefan Borowski ([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.
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Biography
He was born to a Polish-Jewish family, as a son of Janina and Wiktor Borowski.
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.