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Teresa Piotrowska
Polish politician (born 1955) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Teresa Piotrowska (born 5 February 1955) is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 16,716 votes in 4 Bydgoszcz district, as a candidate from the Civic Platform list.
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Early life
Piotrowska was born in Tczew on 5 February 1955. During her youth she attended the Maria Skłodowska-Curie High School in Tczew and later in 1980 attended the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw graduating with a master's degree in history.[1]
She was then later a member of the PAX Association which was a Catholic pro-communist group in Poland and became an instructor in this group, later in the 1990s she worked as a primary school teacher.[2]
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Political career
She became a member of the city council of Bydgoszcz in 1994 and later from 1995 to 1998 as a member of the city board where she was tasked with overseeing social welfare and education.[2]
She then served as the last Voiovode of Bydgoszcz from March 1998 to December 1998 after which the voivodeship was integrated into the Kuyavian–Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Piotrowska was also a Member of the Sejm being first elected in the 2001 election. She was elected in Sejm Constituency no. 4 with 12,196 votes totalling 3.54% of the total votes in the constituency.[3]
Piotrowska became the Minister of the Interior of Poland on 22 September 2014[4] in the Ewa Kopacz Cabinet. She held on to this position of Minister of the Interior for 1 year and 1 month until she lost her position as minister due to the government losing the 2015 Polish parliamentary election, she was succeeded by Mariusz Błaszczak.[5]
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