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2020 in Poland
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Events during the year 2020 in Poland.
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- February — local governments controlling a third of Poland officially declared themselves as "against "LGBT ideology" or passed "pro-family" Charters, pledging to refrain from encouraging tolerance or funding NGOs working for LGBT rights.[2][3]
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Poland
- 6 July – President Duda signed a document with a presidential draft of the amendment to the Polish Constitution to ban gay adoption.[4]
- 12 July – Andrzej Duda is re-elected as the President of Poland.[5]
- 25 July – Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro declared he would begin preparing the formal process for Poland to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention.[6][7][8][9] He claimed the treaty is harmful because it "requires that schools teach children about gender in an ideological way" and that it "de-emphasizes biological sex".[10]
- 6 October – Jarosław Kaczyński become deputy prime minister in the Mateusz Morawiecki government.[11]
- 22 October – Poland's constitutional court rules abortion of fetuses with congenital defects is unconstitutional.[12][13][14][15]
- 7 December – stated-owned petroleum refinery and distributor PKN Orlen acquired media and press company "Polska Press" controlling large number of regional media portals and several regional newspapers.[16][17][18]
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Deaths
January
- 2 January – Bogusław Polch, comic book artist (b. 1941).[19]
- 17 January
- Lech Raczak, theatre director (b. 1946).[20]
- Stanislaw Stefanek, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Łomża (b. 1936).[21]
July
- 6 July
- Zdzisław Myrda, Olympic basketball player (b. 1951).[22]
- Marta Stebnicka, actress (b. 1925).[citation needed]
- 10 July – Anna Stroka, literary historian, author and translator (b. 1923).[23]
August
- 4 August – Jan Strelau, psychologist (b. 1931).[24]
- 5 August – Stefan Majer, basketball player and coach (b. 1929).[25]
- 10 August – Dariusz Baliszewski, historian, journalist and writer (b. 1946).[26]
- 14 August – Ewa Demarczyk, singer and poet (b. 1941).[27]
- 18 August – Wojciech Karpiński, writer and historian of ideas (b. 1943).[28]
- 22 August – Józefa Hennelowa, journalist and politician (b. 1925).[29]
September
- 1 September – Jerzy Szczakiel, speedway rider (b. 1949).[30]
- 5 September – Marian Jaworski, Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Lviv of the Latins (b. 1926).[31]
October
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- 17 October – Ryszard Ronczewski, actor (b. 1930).[32]
- 18 October – Stanisław Kogut, politician and trade union activist (b. 1953).[33]
- 19 October – Wojciech Pszoniak, actor (b. 1942).[34]
- 20 October – Bogdan Józef Wojtuś, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1937).[35]
December
- 1 December – Hanna Stadnik, Polish resistance veteran and activist (b. 1929).[36]
References
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