Bogdan Borusewicz

Bogdan Michał Borusewicz ( born January 11, 1949 in Lidzbark Warmiński ) is a Polish historian and politician. On 8 July 2010 he led as president of the Senate as acting official duties of the president of his country.

Life

Democratic Opposition

Borusewicz was arrested in May 1968 after the Polish student unrest as a student for the first time. He had printed and distributed leaflets. In 1975, he completed a degree in history at the Catholic University of Lublin and was named after labor unrest in Radom in 1976 a member of the Committee for the Defense of the workers. In the period 1978-1980 he worked for the opposition Free Trade Unions of Pomerania ( Wolne związki zawodowe Wybrzeża ) in Gdansk active.

In 1980 he was one of the leading organizers of the August strikes in Poland in 1980, which began at the Gdansk Lenin Shipyard, and was a co-founder of Solidarność. When General Wojciech Jaruzelski on 13 December 1981 declared a state of war in Poland, Borusewicz went into the ground and hid for four years before the socialist rulers. During this time he became involved continue for the organization of the Solidarity underground. In 1986, he was arrested and in 1988 released after an amnesty.

Political career from 1989

After the political changes he initially continued to work as a Solidarity activist and in 1991 deputy in the Polish Sejm. In the first legislative term from 1991 to 1993 he was a deputy of the Solidarity and directed the special parliamentary commission to investigate the effects of martial law. When discussing the durchgesetztes at the request of the union vote of no confidence against the government of Suchocka but fell out with the union and became a member of the Unia Demokratyczna, whose chairman Tadeusz Mazowiecki was. In 1994, from the Unia Demokratyczna the Liberal Party Unia Wolności, the member of the coalition of Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek was.

Borusewicz was in 1997-2000 in this government 's deputy interior minister. 2001 Borusewicz was not re-elected to the Sejm and went back to Gdansk, where he was active until 2005 in the regional policy of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. In 2002 he was a candidate of the mayoral election of Gdansk, but lost the election with a score of 16%.

2005 Bogdan Borusewicz was elected to the Polish Senator, where he was supported by the ruling party PiS, as well as of the Civic Platform. Since 2005 he has been President of the Polish Senate. In the 2007 parliamentary elections, he was elected by a large majority in Gdansk as a candidate of the Civic Platform again in the Senate.

On July 8, 2010 Bronisław Komorowski has resigned from the office of Sejmmarschalls and his successor Grzegorz Schetyna was only in the evening chosen this day. In the meantime Borusewicz led interim basis the official duties of the President, as this is responsible in accordance with the constitution the Senate Marshal while vacancy to the post of President and Sejmmarschalls.

Family

Bogdan Borusewicz was married to the nurse and Solidarity activist Alina Pienkowska, with whom he has two children. She too was from 1991 to 1993 Senator. Alina Pienkowska died in 2002 at the age of 50 years.