Bogdan Borusewicz

Deputy Marshal of the 10 th term Senate (from 12.11.2019) Senator of the 6 th, 7 th, 8 th, 9 th and 10 th term Senate Deputy Marshal of the 9 th term Senate Marshal of the 6 th, 7 th and 8 th term Senate Deputy to the Sejm of the 1st, 2 nd and 3 rd term He was born on 11 January 1949 in Lidzbark Warmiński. In 1975, he graduated in history from the Faculty of Humanities of the Catholic University of Lublin. He was an active member of the democratic opposition. In May 1968, he was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison for printing and distributing brochures in support of student protests. In the early 1970s, he co-organised the democratic opposition in Lublin and on the Coast. In 1976, he took part in the operation to help the Radom workers and joined the Workers’ Defence Committee. He co-founded the Free Trade Unions of the Coast in 1978. He also worked as an editor for such magazines as ‘Robotnik’ and ‘Robotnik Wybrzeża’. In 1980, he orchestrated the August strike in the Gdańsk Shipyard and helped formulate the 21 demands. After martial law was imposed, he led the second strike in the Gdańsk Shipyard (15-16 December 1981). He spent over four years in hiding, as he was in charge of the underground Regional Coordinating Commission. In the years 1984-1986, he was a member of the Temporary Coordinating Commission, then – of the Temporary Board of NSZZ ‘Solidarność’. He was arrested on 10 January 1986. He participated in the Gdańsk Shipyard strikes of May and August 1988. Since 1989, he was a member of the Presidium, and in the years 1990-1991 – Deputy Chairman of the National Commission of NSZZ ‘Solidarność’ and Chairman of the Parliamentary Club NSZZ ‘Solidarność’ (1991-1992). In the years 1997-2000, he held the office of the Deputy Minister of the Interior, in charge of bodies such as the Police. Between 2001 and 2005, he was the Deputy Marshal and Board member of Pomorskie Voivodeship. In the 1st term Sejm, he chaired the Special Committee to Investigate the Effects of Martial Law. In the 2 nd term Sejm he served as the Deputy Chairman and then the Chairman of the Special Services Committee and the Deputy Chairman of the Special Committee for ‘Oleksy case’. In the 6 th, 7 th and 8 th term Senate, he was the Head of the Delegation to the Tripartite Assembly of the Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland, the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and chaired the Parliamentary Group for Cooperation with Non-Governmental Organisations. His late wife, Alina Pieńkowska (1952-2002), was an active member of the opposition and NSZZ ‘Solidarność’, and Senator of the 2 nd term Senate. Member of the Civic Platform party of Poland.

Polish politician (born 1949)