Elżbieta Kruk

Elżbieta Małgorzata Kruk ( born November 19, 1959 in Lublin ) is a Polish politician and from 2001 to 2006 and again since 2007 Member of the Sejm in the IV, V and VI. Term, as well as former chairman of the Krajowa Rada Radiofonii i Telewizji (Council for radiophony and Television - KRRiT ).

Life

In 1984 she finished the study of history at the Faculty of Humanities of the Catholic University of Lublin. During her studies she was in Niezależne Zrzeszenie Studentów ( Independent Students Association - NZS ) active. In 1994 she finished the postgraduate courses in the field of Public Administration at the University of Warsaw and in 1996 at the University of Wisconsin.

After 1984 she worked first as a history teacher at an elementary school, then as a field trip leader at the Historical Museum in Lublin and as an educator in a reformatory for women. In 1989, she began working in the Mazovia Regional Office of the Solidarity trade union. After Lech Wałęsa became President, it was in the Biuro Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego (National Security Agency - BBN ), which was then headed Lech Kaczyński, employed. In BBN she was his assistant and office director. In 1992 she became assistant to the chairman of the Najwyższa Izba Kontroli (Supreme Court - NIK ), as chairman of this authority was Lech Kaczyński. After Lech Kaczyński had left the NIK, she was transferred to the Lublin Delegation of NIK 1995.

Political activity

In the years 2000 and 2001, she worked again with Lech Kaczyński together, as this was the Minister of Justice and conducted his political cabinet. In the parliamentary elections of 2001, it was for the electoral district of Lublin on the list of Prawo i Sprawiedliwość ( Law and Justice - PiS) elected to the Sejm. She earned again a parliamentary seat in the Sejmwahlen 2005. It is one of the founders of the PiS and was chairman of the Lublin local bodies of that Party.

On 31 January 2006 she was appointed by Lech Kaczyński member of the Krajowa Rada Radiofonii i Telewizji (Council for radiophony and Television KRRiT ) and on 6 February the chairman of the KRRiT. In this connection, they returned their electoral mandate. On March 23, the Constitutional Court ruled on the question of constitutionality of the newly enacted by the PiS " media laws " that the provision of this Act, whereby the President may appoint the Chairman of the KRRiT, is unconstitutional. On March 30, a judgment of the Constitutional Court was published in Journal of Laws, which Elżbieta Kruk was no longer chairman of the authority. On May 17, Kruk was re- elected chair of the KRRiT because of a new media law.

On September 26, 2007, she resigned from this office and opted for a candidacy in the early Sejmwahlen 2007, where she was elected for the constituency of Lublin with 53 474 votes for the third time as a Member on the list of PiS. She is a member of the Sejm Commission for State Control and Deputy Chairman of the Commission for Culture and the Media.