Marek Borowski

Marek Stefan Borowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈmarɛk bɔˈrɔfskʲi]; born 4 January 1946 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish 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
Borowski in 2015
Marshal of the Sejm
In office 19 October 2001 – 20 August 2004
Preceded by	Maciej Płażyński
Succeeded by	Józef Oleksy
Deputy Prime Minister of Poland
In office 26 October 1993 – 8 February 1994
President	Lech Wałęsa
Prime Minister	Waldemar Pawlak
Preceded by	Henryk Goryszewski Paweł Łączkowski
Succeeded by	Roman Jagieliński Grzegorz Kołodko Aleksander Łuczak
Minister of Finance
In office 26 October 1993 – 8 February 1994
President	Lech Wałęsa
Prime Minister	Waldemar Pawlak
Preceded by	Jerzy Osiatyński
Succeeded by	Grzegorz Kołodko
Member of Sejm
In office 25 November 1991 – 18 October 2005
In office 5 November 2007 – 7 November 2011
Member of Senate
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 November 2011
Personal details
Born	(1946-01-04) 4 January 1946 (age 79) Warsaw, Poland
Political party	Polish United Workers' Party (1967-1990) Democratic Left Alliance (1990-2004) Social Democratic Party of Poland (2004-2015) Independent (2015-2019) Civic Coalition (since 2019)
Spouse	Halina Borowska
Profession	Economist

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%.^[3]

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.^[4]

He most recently ran (unsuccessfully) for the office of mayor of Warsaw in the 2010 local elections.^[5]

See also

• 2005 Polish presidential election